18. Decides to maintain the current level of funding for consultants and experts

It was considered that the amount should be revised to reflect the present level of fees.

The current level of disclosure relating to directors' remuneration varies widely.

Greece s economic weakness increases the current level of the deficit.

The proposed programme budget for 2006 2007 maintains the current level of resources available to the Board.

The Oil Producing Countries

As a result, its current level of consumption will be unsustainable when the oil runs out.

All of Canada's major political parties support either sustaining or increasing the current level of immigration.

Similarly, it is equally important to maintain and sustain the current level of peace between northern and southern Sudan.

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Objectively strong, subjectively infirm that is how the EU s present condition can be described.

Such meetings enhance the current level of cooperation with international organizations, contribute to avoiding duplication of activities and increase the effectiveness of resource utilization.

UNCTAD is also actively working on issues related to the impact of oil price volatility on African oil importing and oil exporting countries.

A recent confidential study by the German Intelligence Agency raises the possibility that the US could actually become an oil and gas exporter by 2020, in contrast to its present position as the world s largest energy importer.

Credible domestic and EU wide policies are needed to stabilize the situation. Neither is forthcoming.

According to the same source, the current age structure of Bosnia and Herzegovina's population remains at the 1991 level.

(d) Review whether the present level of funding for training and the results were consistent with the priority placed on staff development

At the same time, oil hedging not only raises oil prices but results in huge reserves of cash in oil producing countries.

If that high level of government borrowing occurs, it will absorb all of the available household savings even at the current elevated level.

But those historical rates prevailed at times when fiscal deficits and federal government debt were much lower than they are today.

Recognizing also that, in view of the important role played by consensus in the Commission on Narcotic Drugs, the recommendation contained in the present resolution will not adversely affect the decision making procedure applied in most cases, but, on the contrary, will improve it by ensuring that, even in the exceptional event of a vote being taken, no State that considers itself to be affected need be excluded from the voting,

Mr. Ahmed Chowdhury (Bangladesh) said that the current policy review provided an opportunity to assess the overall activities of the United Nations system at the country level.

In some instances, energy consumption can be reduced by 50 80 per cent depending on the current level of use efficiency.

Iraq and Iran used to be India s principal oil suppliers.

It is widely acknowledged that the high current level of investment in pharmaceutical research is yielding too few substantive discoveries.

Brunei Darussalam

Though the current level of anti Americanism in Russia s official media seems unprecedented, the regime is most worried about internal problems.

Staffing of the office of the Chief of Operations remains at the current level of two Professional posts and one General Service (Other level) post.

The oil producing countries have suffered a sudden reversal of fortune.

(iii) To establish cultural industries that are viable and competitive at the national and international levels, in the face of the current imbalance in the flow and exchange of cultural goods at the global level

The High Level Panel on Security Reform appointed by Secretary General Kofi Annan is looking at the various options.

Developing countries as a whole accounted for more than 80 of global reserve accumulation during this period, and their current level of reserves approaches 5 trillion.

Admittedly, this summit faces difficult decisions on the reform of the Security Council, but the recommendations made by the High level Panel provide us with a guide for consensus.

Two generations came to think of declining oil prices as normal, which accounts for the current sense of entitlement, the outrage at rising prices, and the search for villains politicians, oil producing countries, and oil companies are all targets of scorn in public opinion surveys.

Rents from oil production impede reforms in the major exporting countries.

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Emphasizing the continuing need for extraordinary efforts in order to maintain, at least at the current level, the activities of the Agency, as well as to enable the Agency to carry out essential construction,

During this plan period, UNICEF will seek to increase the ratio of investment in learning from the current 1.4 per cent of staff post costs to 2 per cent.

On the issue of the recent stress felt by oil importing countries, which were facing increasing balance of payment limitations, there could be greater cooperation between the oil producing and oil consuming countries.

Five weeks following the submission of the third interim report and one week after the publication of the report entitled The Management of the United Nations Oil for Food Programme , the Vice President of Costa Rica had again raised the issue at the High level Plenary Meeting of the General Assembly.

2. Stresses the importance of maintaining the current level of the training programmes of the Institute, and requests the Board of Trustees to make every effort to ensure that in 2005 the level of training programmes will be maintained

There is ample opportunity for oil and dirty water to get in behind them.

The lower dollar also reduces the purchasing power of oil exporters.

In 1973, the Norwegian government founded the State oil company, Statoil.