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

The Currency Manipulation Charade

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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.

Burma s Democratic Charade

Secondly, it will increase the Council's representativeness.

Peru is a representative democratic republic divided into 25 regions.

Negotiations on the outcome document and many subsequent statements have demonstrated that, if more could not be achieved on the development aspects of trade in the document, it is because the Security Council has not been made representative.

Instead of choosing between a body that was representative but too large and unwieldy to deal with emerging security situations, or one that was efficient at the expense of representativeness, they created a system with multiple bodies with different roles.

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.

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

Consequently, there is a need for a representative independent expert body that is able to think collectively, free from specialized mandate constraints and political considerations, in order to initiate and pursue new and innovative thinking in human rights standards and implementation.

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

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.

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.

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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.

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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.

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.

Report of the Disarmament Commission

Report of the Disarmament Commission

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