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The Open Government Partnership (OGP) was formally launched on September 20, 2011, on the sidelines of a UN General Assembly meeting during which heads of state from eight founding governments (Brazil, Indonesia, Mexico, Norway, the Philippines, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States) endorsed the Open Government Declaration and announced their country action plans along with ...
A circular letter of credit issued by Baring Brothers to US Senator George Hoar for £1000, a very large sum of money in 1892.. A circular letter of credit was a letter of credit issued by a bank or related financial institution to a private person, usually an individual of means, which enabled that person to draw funds from correspondent banks while traveling.
The Office of Management and Budget of Puerto Rico —Spanish: Oficina de Gerencia y Presupuesto de Puerto Rico (OGP)— is a Cabinet-level office, and the largest office within the Office of the Governor of Puerto Rico. The main job of the office is to help the governor prepare the budget.
A circular letter or a circular may refer to: Circulaire, text broadly disseminated for the members of a service, of an enterprise, or of an administration; Circular Letter (Interlingua), an early Interlingua publication; Circular letter or encyclical, a letter written by a bishop and addressed to his clergy; Government circular
Puerto Rico [i] (Spanish for 'rich port'; abbreviated PR), [21] officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, [b] [j] is a self-governing Caribbean archipelago and island organized as an unincorporated territory of the United States under the designation of commonwealth.
In 1989, with Cecilia Morel, Danica Radic, and Paula Délano, Piñera created the Enterprising Women Foundation (Fundación Mujer Emprende), originally called The House of Youth (La Casa de la Juventud). The foundation aims to assist in the development of young women of lower income. [21]
This list of metro systems includes electrified rapid transit train systems worldwide. In some parts of the world, metro systems are referred to as subways, undergrounds, tubes, mass rapid transit (MRT), metrô or U-Bahn.
The sedimentary rocks under the ocean between the eastern islands of the Canarian archipelago and Africa, e.g. the Fúster Casas Trough, are believed to contain hydrocarbons. [258] Exploration of these resources is underway. [259] As of 2019, one offshore well (Sandia-1) had found petroleum in Tertiary-age sandstone. [260]