However, full mobile telephony penetration is as desirable in developing as it is in developed countries.

And Nora Basha looks at a future where intellectuals will be an asset to the country

It is right and refreshing that Obama has made clear that America s aspiration is to lead, not dominate.

There can no longer be any reasonable doubt that Iran s ambition is to obtain nuclear weapons capability.

It aspires to be part of the global village, not an isolated, parochial Jewish outpost.

No state that aspires to win the support or cooperation of others can afford to be seen to be comfortable with unambiguous double standards.

Many Catholics however, generally aspire to a United Ireland or are less certain about how to solve the constitutional question.

Through the 1970s and 1980s, the regime was challenged by individuals and organized groups aspiring to independent thinking and activity.

Indeed, Pakistan aspired at one point to becoming something of a modern extension of India s long ruling Mughal dynasty.

Further goals include an ambitious plan called the Aurora Programme, which intends to send a human mission to Mars soon after 2030.

A good approach would be to work out democratic and human rights guidelines that countries aspiring to be members should adhere to.

Most constitutions including the American one aspire to freeze history, or to set up a lasting institutional order that will resist the winds of change.

This is the paradox of twenty first century socialism economic liberalism is the foundation for a policy that aspires to replace it.

The majority of the planet, aspiring for development, having the right for development, are in large aspiring for an unsustainable lifestyle, a momentous pressure.

Cities and countries that aspire to be hubs or critical components in national or global financial and economic systems need to be predictable, reliable, and resilient.

A normal monetary union, which is what the eurozone aspires to be, requires a normal central bank to carry out the entire range of central banking functions.

As one observer put it, Rice s ambition is not just to be a gardener she wants to be a landscape architect.

At the same time, the performance on the Council of those countries that aspire to permanent membership will be seen as a harbinger of what would come if they were to succeed.

When the world's leaders met at the Millennium Summit four years ago, they agreed on a set of goals aimed at cutting global poverty in half by 2015.

Advanced country central banks never aspired to their current position they got there because, at every stage, the alternatives seemed to imply a worse outcome for society.

Ukraine has formed a regional association with Georgia, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, and Moldova, and its ambition is to play the role of a center of democracy and economic freedom in this huge area.

Several powerful states, whose growing global role has made them aspirants to permanent seats on a reformed Security Council, will serve alongside India.

We did not even include references to nuclear disarmament or general and complete disarmament, which have been aspirations of the majority of the international community for the last four decades.

For a country positioning itself as a leader in the global knowledge economy, neglecting investment in education was a grave error, with other countries now staking a claim to the role to which India aspired.

No country or region can truly aspire to full, broad based economic growth without pulling along all segments of its population and without giving a voice to all.

If accepted, it promises Ukraine, which aspires to EU membership and is currently negotiating a Free Trade Agreement with the Union, the stable, effective, and democratic government that it needs.

In that spirit of solidarity and authentic cooperation which is, after all, the raison d'être of the United Nations the Republic of Haiti will work to achieve, between now and 2015, the Millennium Development Goals, to which all countries aspire.

The soft power of Europe s political and social model is well known. As an Asian leader once told me, Europeans have what many Asian societies aspire to democratic government, advanced infrastructure, civil rights, world class companies, high educational and social standards, and a rich cultural heritage.

Many in and sympathetic to the Afro Costa Rican community hope today's debate results in new legislation that criminalizes discrimination in all forms and brings the country closer to the image it has tried to project abroad a society that respects and celebrates diversity.

Policymakers in France loved to quote a remark by the French poet Paul Valéry, who in the middle of the chaos of the Great Depression had written that Europe visibly aspires to be governed by an American committee.

After all, the European Union is first and foremost a community of democracies if Ukraine can aspire to membership, any oligarch or criminal politician who undermines that prospect will have to face the ire of all Ukrainians.

In particular, the draft constitution of the association stated that the new body aspired to making the International Society of Krishna Consciousness, which is only one of many branches of Vishnu Hinduism, the only religious organization representing Vishnuism in Belarus.

This is the paradox of twenty first century socialism economic liberalism is the foundation for a policy that aspires to replace it.

At the same time, the performance on the Council of those countries that aspire to permanent membership will be seen as a harbinger of what would come if they were to succeed. This puts the spotlight on India all the more.

Many citizens of France s 24 partners in the European Union, or of states that aspire to enter the EU soon, are angry indeed, indignant at France s rejection of the European Union s constitutional treaty.

The government aspired to play a constructive role across Africa, act as a spokesman for Third World interests at the UN and elsewhere, and promote an end to the plethora of conflicts bedeviling the continent.

Paint your picture of what rolling the clock 50 years forward, 100 years forward, how you would like to think of the world, balancing moral progress with richness.

18.5 As the Western Asia region continues to be beset by instability and wanting for peace, ESCWA will continue to give special emphasis to countries emerging from conflict and the governance of recovery, pursuant to ESCWA resolution 241 (XXII).

In view of the foregoing, Spain hopes that all the States Members of the Organization represented in the General Assembly and all the members of the Security Council will support the candidacy of Professor González Campos in the elections to be held in the autumn of 2005 during the sixtieth session of the General Assembly.

In line with the aspiration of United Nations policy, several countries have restricted the scope of capital punishment, often as a prelude to, or in conjunction with, a moratorium on executions, with a view to moving towards complete abolition (see General Assembly resolutions 2857 (XXVI) and 32 61).