Moon Tae-young, a ministry spokesman, says North Korea's actions on this occasion can be seen as having violated customary international law.

VOA: standard.2009.09.11

The Interior Ministry said final voter turnout for Thursday's balloting topped 74 percent -- higher than the president's last election.

VOA: standard.2009.04.10

South Korea's Unification Ministry says Pyongyang's launch of at least five short-range missiles did not affect Tuesday's agreementto hold talks.

VOA: standard.2009.10.13

Spain's Interior Ministry said three other suspected members were arrested in a separate location along with one of their companions.

VOA: standard.2010.05.20

Israel's Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor says the investigation by the U.N.-appointed Goldstone Commission was one-sided and biased from the beginning.

VOA: standard.2009.11.06

A spokesman from China's Commerce Ministry says the investigation will proceed according to China's laws and the rules of the World Trade Organization.

VOA: standard.2009.09.14

The country's Interior Ministry spokesman Shota Utiashvili told reporters at a Tbilisi new conference the plot was coordinated and paid for by Russia.

VOA: standard.2009.05.05

But on its Web site, France's foreign ministry strongly urged French not to travel to Guinea and for those currently there to leave.

VOA: standard.2009.10.16

The foreign ministry said "the action was taken in the general context of improved Russian-U.S.relations."

VOA: standard.2010.07.09

South Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman Moon Tae-young expressed Seoul's willingness to work with Mr.Hatoyama.

VOA: standard.2009.08.31

Georgian Interior Ministry spokesman Shota Utiashvili told VOA that huge problems remain from last year's war, including the large number of people displaced by the fighting.

VOA: standard.2009.08.26

Afghanistan's Interior Ministry spokesman Zamary Bashary tells VOA that this is a sad incident.

VOA: standard.2009.11.07

Lee Jong-joo, a ministry spokesperson, He says North Korea has agreed to the South's proposal to discuss flood prevention along the shared Imjin River on October 14.

VOA: standard.2009.10.13

China's Commerce Ministry says it is looking into accusations from local producers that American auto and chicken meat products are being dumped in China at below-cost prices.

VOA: standard.2009.09.14

Gabon's interior ministry says Bongo won with nearly Former interior minister Andre Mba Obame and long-time opposition leader Pierre Mamboundou each received about 25 percent of the vote.

VOA: standard.2009.10.04

Speaking at a Moscow news conference, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Andrei Nesterenko said the first meeting between U.S.President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart,Dmitri Medvedev, set the basis for practical cooperation between the two countries.

VOA: standard.2009.04.02

"Why should we be encouraged to lease large tracts of land for bio fuel production that we are not eating to make money and use that money to import food?" Ghana's Agriculture Ministry says private sector farmers are free to do what they like with their land.

VOA: standard.2009.08.23

Russia's Foreign Ministry praised the exchange,saying, "The action was taken in the general context of improved Russian-U.S.relations."

VOA: special.2010.07.10

Doctor Supachai Rerks-Ngarm led the study for Thailand's Ministry of Public Health.

VOA: special.2009.10.13

China's Education Ministry also provides books and other materials.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

The Afghan Defense Ministry welcomed Tuesday's announcement.

VOA: special.2009.02.21

The ministry's chief director, Joseph Boamah, says government officials have seen no evidence that biofuel growth is threatening food production.

VOA: standard.2009.08.23

Dr.Supachai Rerks-Ngarm of the Department of Disease Control of the Thai Ministry's Public Health Department, was overall leader of the study.

VOA: standard.2009.10.20

The Ministry of Health's Lo is optimistic that the new data will show an improvement in the rate.

VOA: standard.2009.11.10

Meanwhile,the Russian Foreign Ministry occasionally posts selective old documents that support the Kremlin's version of history.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

Horatio Nelson-Williams is coordinator of the Education For All program at Sierra Leone's Ministry of Education.

VOA: standard.2010.02.25

including the country's Constitutional Council and Interior Ministry, not validate what they are calling "prefabricated results."

VOA: standard.2009.07.19

The only government official at the meeting was a young Interior Ministry representative who was asked to convey the group's documents to his superiors.

VOA: standard.2009.05.15