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Burma s Democratic Charade

Secondly, it will increase the Council's representativeness.

Peru is a representative democratic republic divided into 25 regions.

In fact, this is all a pointless charade.

In our view, that important action is legitimate in terms of representativeness.

Journalists who claim otherwise are not a representative sample, even in Western countries.

The experience of the Global Mechanism also demonstrates that, in the absence of dependable, adequate funding, a coordinating mechanism alone may fail to generate the financial flows necessary to assist developing country parties sufficiently in their implementation of the Rotterdam Convention.

Other activities undertaken by UNCTAD include the following The Costs of Agrifood Safety and SPS Compliance project aimed at identifying and quantifying the compliance costs for tropical fruits faced by a representative group of African LDCs, and proposing ways of dealing with them.

The situations considered were fairly heterogeneous but offered a representative sample of reservations.

Zimbabwe needs a broad based representative Government to face the country's huge economic and humanitarian challenges.

In his presentation, the Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Officer noted that the report was based on the findings from a group of case studies, encompassing each region, which had been selected as representative of the diverse range of circumstances.

In terms of ethnic origin and religious practice, they were a representative sample of Germany s Muslim community.

High oil prices now seem to be the only factor allowing Putin to keep the reform charade going.

In the Commonwealth we reaffirm our conviction that gender equality is a fundamental premise in achieving representative democracy.

Phase 2 will cover only the United Nations and selected representative funds, programmes and specialized agencies.

The Nigerian film industry does not engage all windows in the conventional film distribution chain (cinema, DVD rental sell and public TV) instead, it operates exclusively in low cost DVD production and in doing so has managed to create an industry based solely on this sub set of distribution activity.

We need a moderate sized representative group of leaders of the world s largest economies to meet regularly to discuss such issues, informed by an impartial secretariat that will place its analyses before the group.

It can and must be a representative and efficient world organization, open and accountable to the public as well as to Governments.

If carried out by a representative government, such economic reforms have a better chance of being sustained.

The Palestinians have shown that it is not true that an Arab society cannot progress towards representative institutions.

Congratulating the people of Burundi for the successful conclusion of the transitional period and the peaceful transfer of authority to representative and democratically elected government and institutions,

2. Reaffirms that consultants shall not perform functions of staff members of the Organization or have any representative or supervisory responsibility

The Council must be not only more representative but also more able and willing to take action when action is needed.

The United Nations, the most representative intergovernmental body with a universal mandate, continues to play an indispensable coordinating role in global affairs.

The studies carried out by the Labour Inspectorate only provided representative information about pay differences between men and women at macro level.

I would predict, if you're a representative sample, that many more of you insure your iPhones than your lives, even when you have kids.

Voting on budgets in Parliament a representative institution ensured that the people as a whole were liable for the obligations incurred by their government.

The current charade of international control over Assad s chemical arsenal would be amusing if it were not so blatantly perfidious.

Another approach championed at the Johannesburg meeting was to establish a representative network of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs), including no take reserves.

At the same time, the process as a whole further legitimizes elections in the eyes of people accustomed by Soviet rule to dismissing all votes as charades.

As for the Security Council a body which is neither democratic nor equitable nor duly representative the report focuses basically on the question of its expansion.

Collective self determination requires bodies that are representative of and are accountable to local populations who hold significant functions and powers and promote equitable distribution of benefits.

We know that when the same question is asked in real surveys with representative samples not just Harvard students the outcome is quite different.

Finally, Minkov's World Values Survey data analysis of 93 representative samples of national populations also led Geert Hofstede to identify a sixth last dimension indulgence versus restraint.

Ecuador ( ), officially the Republic of Ecuador ( , which literally translates as Republic of the Equator ) is a representative democratic republic in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and the Pacific Ocean to the west.

Phase 2 of the governance and oversight study will only cover the United Nations and a representative sample of its funds, programmes and specialized agencies as determined by the High Level Committee on Management.

In writing a constitution, underlying political issues are often the hardest to tackle, especially in countries undergoing a transition from dictatorship to representative government.

PanAmerican PanAfrican Association (1999 2002)

The DFG has several representative offices in Asia, North America and Europe and also maintains the Sino German Center for Research Promotion, which was jointly founded by the DFG and the National Natural Science Foundation of China.

Making that body more representative and balanced and its work more effective and transparent especially with regard to decision making is vital in adapting the United Nations to the global realities and challenges of the twenty first century.

Then there's another group, bigger group.

But, to sustain the charade of a strong and prosperous Russia, standing against the predations and hypocrisy of the West, the regime cannot be as authoritarian as Putin himself might wish.

The list represents a cross section of specific types of munitions which could become dangerous explosive remnants of war in future armed conflicts, including wars of internal and international character.