Premises were found for the republican parliament and the republican ministries in the yamens of the former Ch'ing administration in Taipei.

Thanks to Mr. Milosevic's poisonous legacy, the Yugoslav constitution, with its baffling multiplicity of federal and republican parliaments, is a mess.

Tass said the Praesidium of the Supreme Soviet noted at its meeting yesterday a 'considerable activisation of legislative activity' by republican parliaments in recent times.

Milli Majlis was the first secular republican parliament in the Muslim world.

The first parliament was elected 25 February 2003 by the members of the old federal and the republican parliaments.

The interior ministry is split between local police forces loyal to republican parliaments and the 'black berets' controlled by the interior ministry in Moscow.

He was appointed member of a commission of the Volksraad, the republican parliament that was to draw up a constitution.

It was released for consideration by republican parliaments.

Eighty-one officers serve in the Congress of People's Deputies, and hundreds more in republican parliaments and city councils.

The National Assembly of Azerbaijan was the first secular republican parliament in the Muslim world.