Gilmore is expected to present Ireland's priorities to the organisation's permanent council on 12 January 2012.

He was a member of the National Bloc's permanent council and chief of its political bureau.

One of the first major announcements to come out of the meeting was that the group will become the new permanent council for international economic cooperation.

The Institute's first permanent council was elected at the first annual meeting in October 1945.

The autonomous province of Åland has a permanent democratically elected regional council.

NATO's permanent council is carrying out part one, on politics.

The transformation into a permanent council is obviously a revolution in the UN's system of human rights.

NATO has brought about a permanent joint council with Russia.

It has a centre for preventing conflicts and a permanent council.

But for some reason, these reports never reached the main intergovernmental body, the permanent council.