(d) To carry out a comprehensive reform of the judicial system

Lastly, Security Council reform is overdue.

The global financial architecture needs to be reformed to buttress harmonization and coordination.

The feasibility study requires structural police reform with a view to rationalizing police services.

A reform of the Security Council needs the broadest possible support to be considered legitimate.

A reform of the Security Council with the broadest possible support among Member States is necessary.

Mr. Cardenal (Nicaragua) (spoke in Spanish) We support the process of fully reforming the United Nations.

In this regard, Indonesia urges that the United Nations reform should be made in a comprehensive, step by step and sustainable manner.

Her delegation would also welcome early action on the treaty body reform initiated by OHCHR.

The responsible ministerial form of government would necessitate reform of the public service and the relationship between the departments and the government.

That question leads us directly to the debate surrounding the need for and the importance of an immediate and radical overhaul of the United Nations.

Mexico is in favour of Security Council reform that strengthens that body's representativeness, effectiveness and accountability and ensures its members are selected in a democratic manner.

Therefore, if there is to be genuine Council reform, measures should be taken to remove all elements of partiality from the Council's activities and to expand the Council.

Without reform and a thorough review of the Council's working methods, the legitimacy of the decisions it takes will be increasingly questionable.

May their cry give us the firm determination to undertake an institutional reform of the United Nations that responds to the real demands of our peoples rather than to the balancing of power.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo is now in the process of modernizing and restructuring its customs services and reforming its customs legislation.

Where law and policy reform efforts are at a preliminary stage, support provided by UNIFEM focuses on reviews, assessments and consensus building.

In countering that threat, in addition to establishing security belts around the country, it is very important to bring about profound structural reforms in the Afghan economy.

As stated on previous occasions, Poland supports the comprehensive and urgent reform of the Security Council, including the necessary expansion of its membership in both categories.

However, these incidents have shown yet again that large scale reform of the United Nations is needed in order to resolve the internal contradictions that hinder its effectiveness.

Mr. Berruga (Mexico) (spoke in Spanish) Mexico would like to thank you, Sir, for convening this open debate on the overall issue of Security Council reform.

In Sierra Leone, UNIFEM assisted the Law Reform Commission in undertaking a comprehensive review of the legal framework in relation to the criminalization of gender based violence.

We favour an increase in the number of non permanent members of the Security Council with the right to be re elected, and we support a deep reform of its working methods.

On the reform of the Security Council, we reiterate the need for a comprehensive reform, with strong emphasis given to a substantial outcome on the working methods of the Council.

First, moving to a vote on this or any other draft resolution involving Security Council reform is bound to be divisive at this stage.

However, the Panel recommended an alternative remediation programme to that proposed by Saudi Arabia, with reductions in both the area and the volume of contaminated sediments to be remediated.

Its recent shelling of South Korea suggests that the failing Kim dynasty might set East Asia alight rather than undertake any serious reform.

(b) To develop, as a first priority, stable civil military relations through a profound reform of the armed forces as an institution subordinate to democratic civilian authority.

The best way to avoid a confrontation between the people and the security forces is a process of genuine reform leading to elections and a government of national unity.

Some promising practices in various areas of criminal justice reform and some action oriented strategies to facilitate effective criminal justice enhancements have been identified.

There is a clear consensus within the membership on the need for urgent and wide ranging reform of the United Nations, although differences remain on the nature and extent of reform.

The first is the demand for comprehensive reform and the implied criticism that the group of four proposal somehow stands in the way of that goal.

Noting that the people of the Territory have called for reform in the programme of the administering Power with respect to the thorough, unconditional and expeditious transfer of land property to the people of Guam,

Noting that the people of the Territory have called for reform in the programme of the administering Power with respect to the thorough, unconditional and expeditious transfer of land property to the people of Guam,

Likewise, the Managing Director argues that the National Transitional Government of Liberia's inability to provide sufficient funds severely compromises the ability to reform.

The reform of the United Nations also requires the reform of the Secretariat.

They have shown us the amount of vision, wisdom and courage that we were able and willing to bring to this task, with a view to fundamentally reforming the system of multilateral cooperation in the interest of global development.

The reform of our Organization would be incomplete without Security Council reform.

We wish to establish the best possible system of collective security and therefore we support a democratic reform of the Security Council that will ensure greater representativity, transparency and true accountability, in the interest of the efficiency of the Council's work.

ISAF has continued to fulfil its United Nations mandate to support the Afghan Government in setting up a secure and safe environment within its area of operations, in addition to conducting framework security operations, ISAF continues to execute a supporting role in the security sector reform, disarmament, demobilization and reintegration and associated heavy weapons cantonment.

Without it, reform of the entire security sector would have been incomplete.

United Nations reform will not be complete without Security Council reform.

And finally, in moving ahead and calling for action, we are heeding the advice of Secretary General Kofi Annan, who has stated, not without reason, that no reform of the United Nations would be complete without reform of the Security Council and that, as a consequence, Member States should take a decision on this issue before September 2005.

If in spite of Latvia's legislation stipulating equal pay for equal work there was still a pay differential between men and women, the country clearly needed structural reform with changes to define that equality in the terms of the Convention.

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