Official membership numbers are not available.

They pay reduced membership fees, but can follow the development of standards.

We have on several occasions expressed our strong support for Japan's candidacy for permanent membership.

Also there has been no change in area of activity or geographical distribution of the membership.

Concrete results of membership of the United Nations Development Group are starting to show.

We anticipate that other countries will qualify for permanent or semi permanent membership, and we have proposed criteria to that end.

The Czech experience shows that implementing all of the European Union s norms so as to be ready to qualify for membership takes some time.

Criticism of our proposal so far has failed to realistically address the core issue of permanent membership.

(a) Consideration should be given to the formulation of guidelines or criteria for membership the issue of term limits

With a slowdown in accession negotiations, Turkish politicians will have less incentive to continue the reforms necessary for membership.

During 2003, CMS initiated and moderated two programs for the monthly General Membership Meetings of the NGO Committee of the Family.

Mr. BHAGWATI asked about the membership of the Judicial Service Commission, who appointed its members, and what qualifications candidates for membership must have.

The Security Council must be reformed to make it more inclusive and more representative of the current make up of the United Nations.

During all these years, European governments consistently confirmed Turkey's eligibility for full membership, making accession dependent on compliance with membership criteria.

The baseline for comparison and analysis is the current factor weighting 40 per cent for membership, 5 per cent for population and 55 per cent for contribution.

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Let me assure members that Canada will not cease actively to promote bringing into being a standing council with credible membership criteria.

Kyrgyzstan intends to make its contribution to those tasks. For the first time, it has offered its own candidature for non permanent membership of the Security Council for the term 2012 2013.

The founders did not arbitrarily pick a number for permanent membership and then try to force fit countries into those slots.

We also wish to emphasize that all existing regional groups should be maintained and able to nominate candidates for membership of the enlarged Security Council.

For all four of the variants considered, the current weight of the factors (membership 40 per cent, population 5 per cent and contribution 55 per cent) remains unchanged.

If permanent membership is accepted for some, then an acceptable combination of representatives of all continents and major civilizations must acquire permanent seats on the Council.

Since the establishment of the Organization in 1945, Argentina has held the view that there should not be different categories of membership, and we continue to maintain the same position of principle.

Now opponents of Turkey s EU accession bid have seized upon recent events to argue that the country does not meet the democratic standards necessary for full membership.

The Council endorsed the decision of the Secretary General to approve the application of Zambia for membership in the Subcommittee of Experts on the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS Subcommittee).

That model provides for an expansion in the permanent category to include new members particularly from the developing world and would thus bring into the decision making process countries more representative of the broader membership.

Brazil supports the current reform of the CTED and expects that it will become fully operational as soon as possible in order to carry out its ambitious work programme under the policy guidance of the plenary of the CTC.

The weight of the factors taken into account for the distribution of geographical posts remains at 55 per cent for contribution, 40 per cent for membership and 5 per cent for population.

They are getting away with their power grab even though it goes against the Maastricht Treaty, which excludes nationality as a criterion for membership on the Executive Board.

However, these associations are expected to become members of FAFICS when they have acquired the 50 members that are required for membership in the Federation.

The British Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, underlined the United Kingdom's longstanding position in his address to the Assembly last September a position in favour of permanent membership for India, Brazil, Germany and Japan.

In this regard, since the initiation of deliberations on Security Council reform more than a decade ago, Indonesia has always maintained that it is important to establish clear and objective criteria when determining candidacies for membership.

SAO PAULO The attempt by Brazil s government to participate in the international negotiations over Iran s nuclear program could well be called A Manual for Candidates to a Permanent Membership of the United Nations Security Council.

Germany and South Africa were elected as non permanent members at the same time, while Brazil and Nigeria are halfway through their two year terms.

Furthermore, in the unlikely event that it is adopted, the group of four's framework draft resolution could be expected to result in a spate of candidatures for permanent membership from every region.

Where more than one institution in a State qualifies for membership, that State shall have one speaking right, one voting right, and, if elected, one ICC member.

On the matter of the qualifications of a country for permanent membership of the Security Council, Japan firmly believed that such qualifications should be judged by that country's real contributions to the maintenance of international peace and security.

Our support for draft resolution A 59 L.64 is also based on our confidence that the outcome will enhance the democratic and accountable nature of the Council and bring into its decision making process countries more representative of the broader membership, especially from the developing world.

But it needs to be clear that the United Kingdom has never believed that the extension of the veto beyond the current five permanent members is a necessary feature of expanded permanent membership, nor would it be in the wider interests of the United Nations.

Ruling coalitions were at the same time in disadvantageous positions vis à vis opposition parties, which attacked the incumbents for failing to negotiate good membership terms, without themselves having to pass the test of negotiating better conditions.

Even before attaining EU membership, all candidate countries' governments had to start adopting measures aimed at meeting the Maastricht criteria within several years, because the new members had committed themselves in their accession treaties to adopting the euro.

The weighted midpoint in table 4 represents the sum of the weighted membership, population and contribution factors, and the weighted range is calculated as 15 per cent upwards and downwards (but not less than 415 points up and down (4.8 times 86.37), with the upper limit being not less than 1,209 points (14 times 86.37).

(a) To be conscious of the strong concern to ensure that the body is independent and is seen to be so and, inter alia, to ensure that their nominees to the Sub Commission are impartial and independent, free from conflict of interest, and, if elected, that the nominating States do not seek to unduly influence their work

Despite the fact that African issues dominate more than 60 per cent of the Security Council's agenda, several practices and historical factors have deprived our continent of representation in the permanent category of membership of the Security Council, as well as of its equitable share in the non permanent membership.

(a) To be conscious of the strong concern to ensure that the body is independent and is seen to be so and, inter alia, to ensure that their nominees to the Sub Commission are impartial and independent, free from conflict of interest, and, if elected, that the nominating States do not seek to unduly influence their work