At the beginning of July, Vítor Gaspar, the finance minister who put together Portugal's current austerity program at the request of international creditors, resigned.
The chief prosecutor of the United Nations war crimes tribunal in The Hague, Carla Del Ponte, is to come to Macedonia at the request of international monitors to see if a war crimes investigation is merited.
On Jersey, for instance, the Bailiff is both Jersey's chief judge, the speaker of its parliament and, in effect, its head of state.The Edwards report also makes no mention of an attempt to push limited-liability partnership legislation through the Jersey parliament in 1995, at the request of two international accountancy firms.
At the request of the international war crimes court in The Hague, the Bosnian Serb police seized the passports of the wife, son, daughter and son-in-law of Radovan Karadzic, the Bosnian Serb leader during the country's 1992-95 wandand one of the most wanted men in the world.
The government even said it was considering the "possibility of a request for international forces to protect civilians and to prevent chaos".
The government of Nepal issued a request for international assistance almost immediately following the quake on April 25th.
The request to international donors was part of a wider UN appeal for $562 million.
As the scale of damage became more apparent, a request for international aid was made by November 17 to the United Nations Disaster Relief Organization.
The unprecedented request for international aid from a eurozone member state came after weeks of high tension in Athens.
Due to the combined impacts of Eline and Gloria, the government of Madagascar requested for international assistance on March 7, which was coordinated through the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
But these gestures have not been answered with an invitation to direct talks with the United States, as North Korea has requested, nor a easing of international sanctions, which appears to have frustrated the North's leaders, said Ryoo Kihl-jae, a North Korea expert at the University of North Korean Studies in Seoul.
