By contrast, he pointed out that ministers have pledged £250 million to an initiative to help councils bring back weekly bin collections.

The interior minister, Nicolas Sarkozy, pledged to increase security in the district, a poor area with a large immigrant population.

Additionally, the overseas minister of France pledged to establish a relief fund for victims of the storm.

The foreign ministers also pledged to vigorously enforce weapons exclusion zones in Bosnia and to consider creating new ones.

This year the ministers pledged to repeat a 2004 program in which 23 African countries immunized 80 million children under 5 years old.

Some months ago, the prime minister pledged to step down as party leader before the next general election.

The prime minister pledged to serve for the next three weeks, and for now, there will be no interior minister.

The Chinese minister of sport has pledged to rule out "corruption among sports officials".

He became prime minister of the provisional government pledged to bring freedom to the Russian people.

The prime minister, Bulent Ecevit, had pledged to carry through badly needed economic reforms.