The second phase would begin with elections for a transitional administration which would remain in power for up to 10 years.

Opposition parties in Ethiopia have been clamouring for a national reconciliation conference to forge a new transitional administration to replace the current one.

The warlords, who agreed in March to form a transitional administration, are still the main players.

In a sort of on-the-job training for running a country, local leaders are playing an increasing role in the transitional administration.

Protesters are demanding that the generals give up politics for good and hand over immediately to a civilian, transitional administration.

The provisional government was a brief transitional administration between colonial Cochinchina and an independent state.

While composing the transitional administration, Karzai had to balance between different powerful groups who all wanted to be represented in the government.

Moreover, we must subsequently be given detailed reports on how, for example, the transitional administration is working.

I hope there will be in the transitional administration.

The most recent, in Baghdad on 25 April, ended with an agreement to work to put together a transitional administration by 3 June 2003.