When the legislature was in recess last month, Mr. Gorbachev, as Chairman, or President, of the Supreme Soviet, and its executive Presidium decided to send tens of thousands of troops into the republic of Azerbaijan, in the Caucasus, to control ethnic conflict between Christian Armenians and Muslim Azerbaijanis there that turned into full-fledged Azerbaijani separatism.
The executive presidium of the Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania (UDMR) and all its departments are headquartered in Cluj, as are local and regional organisations of most Romanian political parties.
In addition to serving in the ministry, de Silva participated for twenty years in the dialogical and ecumenical activities of the World Council of Churches, and he was Executive President of the Presidium of the National Council for Religion and Peace in Sri Lanka (1979 1980).
On the evening of December 1, 1934 on Stalin's initiative (without the approval of the plitburo - which was given two days later, casually), the secretary of the presidium of the central executive committee, [Abel] Yenukidze, signed the following directive: "1.
Judicial organs are directed not to hold up the execution of death sentences pertaining to crimes of this category in order to consider the possibility of pardon, because the presidium of the central executive committee of the USSR does not consider as possible the receiving of petitions of this sort.
With Brezhnev's position consolidated in the early 1970s, he used Podgorny to weaken Kosygin's position as Chairman of the Council of Ministers by giving the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet some executive powers.
The speech ignited anti-Khrushchev sentiment within the Presidium, the term used for the Politiburo, the executive committee that controlled the Soviet government.
It elected a central executive committee to be in permanent session, with this committee's presidium at the head of the congress.
The administrative structure of the Comintern resembled that of the Soviet Communist Party: an executive committee acted when congresses were not in session, and a smaller presidium served as chief executive body.
In 1979, de Silva was appointed to the Presidium of the National Council for Religion and Peace in Sri Lanka, where he was Executive President for one year.
In 1977, he forced the retirement of Podgorny and became once again Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union, making this position equivalent to that of an executive president.
