In a separate dispute over changes to working practices and policies, negotiation has also been taking place for some time at our international secretariat, like AI UK, based in London, and is continuing at the arbitration service Acas.
No redundancies have been implemented, either at Amnesty International UK or our international secretariat and negotiation has been entered into with the trade union and continues, contrary to what your correspondent claims (Letters, 21 December).
His trainer, Bob Baffert, calls him "our modern-day Secretariat".
Secretariat captured our imaginations by representing beauty and power.
Big Brown looks to be a truly exceptional horse — exceptionally strong and exceptionally competitive, possibly the Secretariat of our day.
"This endeavor, in the final count, would be the only alternative to violence and murder in resolving the Tamil question and for peace in our land," the presidential secretariat said in a statement.
During the drafting of my report, I had the marvellous experience of working with fantastic colleagues from the secretariat of our Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection.
"How many of our headquarters and secretariats are primarily in the business of reporting to or supervising other headquarters and secretariats, as opposed to overseeing activity related to real-world needs and missions?" Mr. Gates asked.
As the secretariat, it is our responsibility to foster the environment that allows for those actions to take place.
With the active support of our small but effective London based secretariat, we worked hard to secure the future of the organization, including a highly successful C40 Summit in Seoul in 2009 thanks to then Mayor Oh.
