Vice-president Omar Suleiman, the former intelligence chief who is leading negotiations with Egypt's opposition groups, sought to appease protesters with a TV assurance that Mubarak had endorsed a timetable for a "peaceful and organised transfer of power" in September.
The three major parties have now endorsed a timetable set out by Gordon Brown pledging immediate devolution of more powers relating to income tax and housing benefit if Scotland votes no to independence.
The comments by spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh mark the second time in recent days that a senior Iraqi has endorsed a timetable for U.S. withdrawal that is roughly similar to the one advocated by Obama.
Conscious of the potential for chaos in global financial markets if there is not a deal soon, both President Barack Obama and House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner, the top Republican in Congress, have endorsed a timetable for reaching a deal.
In particular, Mr Kerkorian and his sidekick Jerry York veteran of turnarounds at Chrysler and IBM wanted Mr Wagoner to endorse targets and a timetable for reversing GM's decline.
The Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrat leaders in Scotland then came together to endorse the timetable for a new transfer of powers from Westminster to Holyrood.
Mr. Pawlenty had said that he would most likely endorse one of his former rivals but did not give a timetable.
He also emphasized the importance of a gradual and careful withdrawal during a sixteen-month period, hoping to get the last troops out during summer 2010, a timetable that even then prime minister al-Maliki of Iraq endorsed.
The Security Council established a deadline of Dec. 15 for Iraqis to fix a timetable for drawing up a constitution and holding elections, a process that the Bush administration had endorsed and has been pressing the Iraqis to complete.
I've directed Secretary Powell to work with fellow members of the council to endorse the timetable the Iraqis have adopted, to express international support for Iraq's interim government, to reaffirm the world's security commitment to the Iraqi people and to encourage other U.N. members to join in the effort...
