Achieving an agreement also requires political will at the highest levels.

(c) Strengthen the commitment and accountability of the United Nations system at the highest levels

Also, they help us to achieve greater heights across a broader spectrum of human endeavour.

Ultimately, direct dialogue at the highest levels should be a key objective.

We welcome the expressed readiness of the Serb and Kosovar authorities to meet at the highest levels.

Yet the maxim that women are increasingly present at the lower and middle level careers, but are still absent at the highest levels, continues to holds true.

The Parties shall manage their water resources so as to maintain them at the highest possible quantitative and qualitative levels.

Likewise, Iraq s unemployment and underemployment levels remain among the highest in the Middle East.

Maori were represented at the highest levels in Government, public life, business, and the wider community.

It was a natural extension of these forms of training to all levels of an organization (the top and middle managers having already been trained).

Importantly, women are now participating in the highest levels of education at much more comparable rates.

Direct diplomatic and strategic engagement between the US and Iran at the highest levels is a proposition yet to be tested.

Forests should be managed to optimize both their local benefits and higher level public goods.

In an organization that aims towards professional standards of the highest calibre, this is no longer a luxury but a must.

In fact, the involvement of the highest level of Russia s government is almost a guarantee that the killers will never be found.

Regulators can do a great deal, but they need political direction from the highest level in order to make genuine progress.

UNHCR's Guidelines on International Protection are also increasingly being cited by tribunals and courts, including at the highest level.

In the context of the European Programme Women at the top (2004), aiming at increasing the number of women number in the highest ranking offices of enterprises

The productivity of Nuevo León, Mexico, is higher than in South Korea, but that of Guerrero, another Mexican state, resembles levels in Honduras.

Although average incomes have risen very rapidly in recent decades, they still stand at between one seventh and one eighth the levels in the United States lower than in Turkey or Colombia and not much higher than in El Salvador or Egypt.

A working summit would demonstrate a willingness at the highest echelons to resolve in principle the major obstacles standing in the way of an agreement.

One factor which seems to greatly enhance progress is the establishment of solid cooperation links between the different actors at the highest levels.

The recent increase in the number of female legislators has provided women an avenue at the highest political level to have a voice in decision making and priority setting.

High level collusion enables thousands of tons of chemical precursors, needed to produce heroin, to be trucked into the country.

It is crucial that the European Union accepts the challenge of the financial crisis at the highest level, draws the appropriate conclusions, and takes the logical next steps.

The call by the Group of Eight leaders last July to resume substantive work at the Conference on Disarmament was a political message at the highest level.

Since the Millennium Summit, we have, at the highest levels, focused our efforts on those burning issues and elaborated far reaching recommendations in areas of special interest to developing countries.

I have developed a fruitful relationship at the highest levels with the civilian and military leadership of NATO in that context, and I believe that the situation has begun to improve very recently.

Romania hopes that renewed political guidance in this field will be given at the highest levels by our leaders when they gather in New York in September.

Ironically, as computer aided cheating increasingly pervades chess tournaments (with accusations reaching the highest levels), the main detection device requires using another computer.

In a country with one of the highest infection rates, now estimated at approximately 30 per cent, the youth of Lesotho are facing an unprecedented challenge.

Up, up, up.

I would like to tell you how fascinated I was by the vitality of the General Assembly, the enthusiasm and determination of diplomats who at the highest level spent much time considering important issues.

Indeed, for a couple of years now, Mexico s GDP growth rates have been near the top of the OECD, and recently above Brazil s.

For an Arab Palestinian teacher to talk to the world today and to reach the highest peak in teaching could be an example for teachers around the world, Al Hroub told the Associated Press.

The report is very comprehensive and written with a view to strengthening commitment and accountability at the highest levels and to allowing for improved accountability, monitoring and reporting on progress of implementation of the United Nations system.

There should be accountability at the highest levels for example, annual reporting to the Executive Board and gender mainstreaming should be included in the RCAs of senior management.

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The amount of Japan's official development assistance directed to projects and programmes for disaster reduction has been at the highest levels among donors, with some 300 million in fiscal year 2003.

Financial support from higher levels (government) all too often takes the form of help not to change (bailouts of too big to fail banks, for example), rather than help to change.

The capacity of national Governments to undertake direct development has meanwhile been reduced through free trade agreements and treaties, as well as by the increasing strength of large transnationals, leading to a lack of economic and political accountability at the highest levels.

These levels are overlooked often because of the nature of the construction of these levels.

Risk premiums started rising above benign levels in 2009, and then more strongly in 2011 2012, while capital flight became rampant in 2011.

I wish to conclude by stating that political will and commitment at the highest level nationally and internationally are of primary importance in creating an enabling environment for youth empowerment. We urge our societies and Governments to consider us as assets, not as problems.