He said they were in dispute, but said he was confident there would be no unilateral moves by the Tsipras government to default on Greece's debt or abrogate the terms of its bailout agreements with the EU and the International Monetary Fund.
But Italians were called to the polls last weekend, for a referendum on whether to abrogate parts of a fertility law enacted in 2004 that banned research using stem cells from embryos, and imposed stringent requirements on test-tube pregnancies.To succeed, the vote needed not just a simple majority but also a quorum of 50% of eligible voters.
By doing so, they abrogate media freedoms and give themselves more power over the press, which is far more dangerous than furious demonstrations and burned embassies.Odero OkothNairobiSIR – Governments did protect freedom of expression by not persecuting or prosecuting newspapers that published the cartoons.
Australia and New Zealand, Oceania's heavyweights, had already responded to the coup with unilateral sanctions, sanctions which they duly escalated after Mr Bainimarama's regime decided to abrogate the constitution in 2009.
Its demands that the Arabs should unilaterally abrogate sanctions, and stop letting American forces attack Iraq from bases in their territory, were ignored.
The government blamed a bomb attack on an army bus in Colombo on the Tigers, and said it would abrogate the truce, which had "ceased to have any meaning .In Oslo, Erik Solheim, the Norwegian government minister who negotiated the agreement, was naturally downcast.
Given that the concession to win Republican assent was a line in the law saying the new director will "not abrogate the statutory responsibilities" of the defence secretary or other cabinet members, do not expect huge changes.But the bigger question is whether more co-ordination is the solution to recent intelligence failures anyway.
The king retains his power over the government, parliament and judges, and can abrogate any constitutional right.
The late King Hussein threatened to abrogate his peace treaty with Israel in 1997 after the prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu (then in his first premiership), ordered a failed operation to kill a Hamas leader.
And you can still keep your gun in your car.James HeimerHoustonSIR – Your debate over allowing weapons in office car-parks missed a key issue, which is whether employers may abrogate their employees' right to self defence when travelling to and from work.
Yet the move appeared to abrogate the previous understanding that a yet-to-be-formed assembly of perhaps 300 representative Iraqis would themselves select a provisional national authority to fill ministerial posts.
