We'll do everything businesslike.

I say let us be discreet, and businesslike.

But business should be transacted in a businesslike manner.

The friendly and businesslike atmosphere was another positive feature of the consultations.

It is not businesslike. It makes it very difficult to earn money.

The Central American countries have tackled the problem of narcotics in the businesslike manner it demands.

It will continue to develop operational modalities that enable it to operate on a businesslike and self financing basis.

We greatly welcome the streamlining of procedures, the businesslike manner in which decisions are reached and the increased dialogue between delegations.

The public international law and policy group delegation reported that the general climate at the polling places had seemed to be positive and businesslike.

In solving these economic problems, we are offering to our foreign partners businesslike cooperation without any ideological or political passions, and we have found understanding everywhere.

They all looked deuced keen and businesslike, as if from youth up they had been working in the office and catching the boss's eye and what not.

It is gratifying to note that with the demise of the cold war, propaganda on disarmament issues has faded away and a businesslike atmosphere of cooperation has taken shape.

The European Community and its member States expressed their satisfaction with the competent and businesslike manner in which the temporary secretariat of the Organization had begun its work in The Hague.

The Executive Board of UNICEF has decided to conduct its meetings in a more businesslike manner, with increased dialogue and exchanges between delegations and the secretariat and fewer quot formal quot statements.

The managers of decentralized offices will be so delegated in January 2005, providing the framework for these offices to operate in a businesslike manner, without the need for time consuming approvals from headquarters.

The European Union supports the concept embodied in that draft resolution, and we believe that a frank, businesslike discussion of these ideas could lead to important results for the effectiveness of our work.

The irony (if there is an irony at all) is that this tragedy came at a time when mistrust seemed, at long last, to be giving way to better, more businesslike relations and greater understanding between the two countries.

The Council should retain its businesslike style of work and its capacity to react without delay to the emergence of situations calling for prompt intervention, to consider these situations in depth and at short notice and to take appropriate decisions.

(c) Any necessary revision of the financial and procurement rules of the United Nations Development Programme as they apply to the Office for Project Services in order to ensure the efficiency of the Office and to enable it to work in a businesslike manner

At the same time, it felt that the Council must retain its clear cut and businesslike style of work, in order to be in a position to react without delay to situations calling for speedy intervention, to consider such situations at short notice and to take appropriate decisions.

While recognizing that it may be somewhat early to make a final assessment of the impact of resolution 48 162 with respect to the governing bodies of the United Nations development funds and programmes, results thus far indicate that delegations seem pleased with the more businesslike functioning of the Executive Boards.

It is within the context of such a concentration of its energies that we consider it fully realistic to look to the Conference to conclude substantially the comprehensive test ban treaty early next year and to be in a position to move forward in a businesslike fashion to initiate the negotiation of a convention on fissile cut off.

I should also pay tribute to Foreign Minister Jean Ping, President of the General Assembly at its fifty ninth session, for all his efforts during this important period in the life of the United Nations and for the draft outcome document (A 60 L.1), which, I have no doubt, will facilitate businesslike deliberations at this High level Plenary Meeting.