As a first step, it is crucial to ensure that the elections are free, open, and inclusive.

As a first step to recovery, the US must undertake serious financial sector reforms.

It hoped that, as a significant first step towards that end, the Conference would arrive at a consensus.

Recently, Israeli leaders have decided on unilateral actions without involving either the US or the Palestinians, with withdrawal from Gaza as the first step.

This gift is a start to replacing thousands of books destroyed in Mosul's libraries by the Islamic State.

As a first step, it will start to provide detailed information on submission by author departments (see annex).

23. We resolve therefore to adopt in all our environmental actions a new ethic of conservation and stewardship and, as first steps, we resolve

As a first step, however, Greece must be given help, through the financial solidarity of EU governments.

In 2005, the National Ecological Network was set up, as the first step in preparation of the EU accession and joining of the Natura 2000 network.

But for that to happen, the parties need, as a first step, to intensify their efforts to ensure that Israeli withdrawal is implemented successfully and peacefully.

Of course, I understood that what made him stand tall yeah they were the legs, thank you very much but as a first step, it was the dignity.

(b) The appointment by the International Labour Organization of a liaison officer in Myanmar as a first step towards the establishment of its full and effective representation in Myanmar

The recommendation that, as a first practical step, States should agree to a moratorium on the deployment of weapons in outer space was therefore crucially important.

The Russo Turkish War, 1735 1739 was the result of the Russian effort to gain Azov and Crimea as a first step towards dominating the Black Sea.

For Gandhi, the spinning wheel symbolized the need to assume personal responsibility for consumption as a first step toward achieving justice and freedom for all.

Many Parties also reported on the use of the MAGICC SCENGEN for generating regional climate change scenarios as a first step in their vulnerability and adaptation assessments.

As a first step, it will be disseminated in the form of downloadable excel worksheets until a specific database application is developed for this purpose.

As a first step, nine offices in Western Europe were closed and a Regional United Nations Information Centre was established in Brussels on 1 January 2004.

It is not too late for Israel to encourage and deal with an Abbas led Palestinian unity government as the first step toward a better balanced approach.

Although it would be preferable to proceed with the harmonization as a first step, the harmonization effort should not prevent the consolidation of payroll systems from taking place simultaneously.

(a) To work immediately to put in place a global, lasting and effectively monitored ceasefire as a first necessary step to a negotiated settlement to the conflict

Such an approach could help streamline and simplify agendas and should be explored in more detail.

The Library has also initiated an internal reorganization of its services as a first step in reviewing and streamlining its technical work and to support the reorientation of its activities to foster knowledge management activities.

In poor rural areas of the Andean and Amazon regions, the Government had launched a campaign to provide women and children with identification documents as a first step to the full exercise of their rights.

The memorandum should be seen as an initial step towards defining a position on the gender issue, raising awareness and putting into place an integrated national gender policy.

This visit was planned as the first step in setting up the Office of the High Representative for the elections in Côte d'Ivoire, and a means of establishing contact with all the significant actors in the process.

UNFICYP is in the process of being restructured as the first step on the basis of the proposal by the Secretary General in his report of 30 March 1993, 1 paragraphs 16 19.

We concur that the General Assembly should endorse the development of a common payroll system as a first step towards a common Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) for the United Nations system as a whole.

Until the final objective of the elimination of the veto is achieved, as a first step it is necessary to limit the veto to actions taken under Chapter VII of the Charter.

It held an Expert Group Meeting in New York on 15 November 2004 as a first step towards developing the framework for the work of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs in this area.

We call on the Security Council, and the Quartet in particular, to put the necessary pressure on Israel to end its hostile campaigns against the Palestinians and their National Authority, including collective punishment, State terrorism and incitement, with a view to creating an environment suitable for reinvigorating the peace process and resuming negotiations.

In that regard, we consider that plans to withdraw from the Gaza Strip and parts of the West Bank should go forward as a first step towards putting an end to the occupation that began in 1967.

As an initial step, it strengthened its monitoring of media around the world, making use of new technologies and intensified efforts by United Nations information centres, to provide senior officials with press materials and regular analyses.

In respect of all sanctions imposed by the Security Council including those pertaining to resolution 1455, the Government of Sierra Leone has consistently, as a first step, taken administrative measures to comply with the relevant measures imposed by the Council.

Saudi Municipal elections took place in 2005 and some journalists saw this as a first tentative step towards the introduction of democratic processes in the Kingdom, including the legalization of political parties.

Therefore, until the ultimate objective of eliminating the veto can be achieved, it is necessary, as a first step in that direction, to limit the veto's use to actions taken under Chapter VII of the Charter.

2. Requests the Conference on Disarmament, as a first step, to consider the formulation of principles that can serve as a framework for regional agreements on conventional arms control, and looks forward to a report of the Conference on this subject

(b) To work immediately to put in place a global, lasting and effectively monitored ceasefire as a necessary first step to a negotiated settlement to the conflict, and to commit themselves to a permanent ceasefire

For the first time ever in Egyptian history, most Egyptian university faculty members went on strike as a first step towards forcing the government to improve their living conditions and the conditions of higher education in the country, writes Eman from Egypt.

Some Parties have included adaptation measures in their national action plans and or national environmental action plans as a first step towards implementation of adaptation, and others have reported that some legislative changes would help facilitate incorporation of climate change adaptation in the future.

Secondly, Egypt has always supported the initiation of negotiations on an FMCT as the first step of a phased disarmament programme, because Egypt has always been strongly in favour of nuclear disarmament and nuclear non proliferation.

Efforts must be redoubled to meet the Millennium Goals for education by investing in quality education that will enable all young people, boys and girls, to attain decent work as a first step towards competing effectively in today's global economy.

(a) To reverse the settlement policy in the occupied territories, including East Jerusalem and the Syrian Golan and, as a first step towards their dismantlement, to stop immediately the expansion of the existing settlements, including natural growth and related activities

For example, when eastern Libyans recently announced the formation of an interim regional council as a first step toward declaring a federalist state, Abdel Jalil alleged the beginning of a conspiracy against Libya in the brewing crisis between the country s provinces.

As a first step, EPAU (like its counterparts in the United Nations system) is currently assessing its own practices and reviewing UNHCR's Evaluation Policy of 2002, as well as the institutional framework, in order to meet this quality bar.