He said the commission was an important step towards implementing a pledge made by Nato leaders at a summit in April.
Draft leglislation, to be published possibly as early as Thursday, will begin the process of implementing a pledge made by David Cameron in his conference speech last autumn.
Draft legislation, which may be published as soon as Thursday, will begin the process of implementing a pledge made by David Cameron in his conference speech last autumn.
It has failed to implement a pledge to create a genuine customs union, with a common external tariff and free trade within the block.
As well as sparing pensioner handouts the chop, it implemented a Liberal Democrat pledge to "triple-lock" the state pension, a near-universal payment to the old, such that it rises by the maximum of prices, earnings or 2.5%.
Implementing a Conservative pledge to slash net long-term immigration from roughly 200,000 a year to "tens of thousands" by 2015 was looking increasingly problematic; beginning by restricting the inflow of skilled labour provoked the ire of British business.
Because tax changes are customarily announced in advance and take effect from the start of the tax year in April, a Scottish administration elected in the spring might have to wait a full year before it could implement a manifesto pledge to use its tax power.The obvious solution would be to move to the autumn the date of the first elections, due in 1999.
One key local concern is the prospect that a BJP government might implement a manifesto pledge and move to end the constitutional provisions which grant a degree of autonomy to Kashmir and special legal privileges to the country's Muslim population.
China fought American troops during the Korean War from 1950 to 1953, after which the United States implemented a trade embargo and pledged its support to the Chinese government-in-exile in Taiwan.
Travis County sheriff Sally Hernandez had just implemented a popular new policy pledging not to hand undocumented residents over to federal immigration authorities unless they had committed a serious crime.
