For Portugal, environmental concerns are a clear priority addressing them must promote, not detract from, development.

It concluded that those considerations could detract from effective protection of the rights covered by article 3, paragraph 1, of the Convention.

At all events, not wishing to detract from any impetus which might emerge, my county is prepared to begin the negotiations without any preconditions.

But that does not necessarily detract from his genius. Indeed, the true source of his success may consist in his understanding of when to abandon one method and devise another.

Unfortunately this does not detract from their ability to cause suffering and fear among civilians, and their ambition to increase the impact of their attacks, by whatever means, remains strong.

With respect to the proposed cluster approach, Governments and UNHCR must not allow attention to the needs of the internally displaced to dilute or detract from the commitment to refugees.

Ms. WANG Ying (China) said that the two paragraphs referred to decision IDB.28 Dec.2 from two different angles and that to merge them would detract from their focus.

Mr. Daratzikis (Greece) said that Turkey had once more repeated its allegations against Greece in an effort to detract attention from its own heavy responsibility for the situation in Cyprus.

First, debt relief arrangements should seek to avoid imposing any unfair burdens on other developing countries and secondly, resources made available for debt relief should not detract from ODA flows.

Youth organizations are concerned that often used phrases such as the youth of today are the best educated generation ever may detract attention from the continuing need for high quality education.

My delegation congratulates the Tribunals on carrying out their work at full capacity and integrating time saving measures that do not detract from the international standards of justice and due process.

First, they detract from the effort to hold the transitional elections second, the commissioners and national electoral officers during the transitional period are often not selected for their expertise in electoral administration.

Let me be clear that does not in any way detract from the centrality of the road map, which remains the agreed framework for achieving a just and lasting peace in the Middle East.

Moreover, while it was essential to address effectively the very real danger of the acquisition and use of nuclear weapons by non State actors, including terrorists, that preoccupation should not detract from those agreed goals.

It is a hopeful sign that many world leaders have already acknowledged that their support for the tsunami victims is long term and will in no way detract from commitments made to other development and humanitarian crises.

The Secretary General applauded the commitment by the High Commissioner to take the lead role in protection, emergency shelter and camp coordination in situations of internal displacement, while noting this expanded role should not detract from UNHCR's role with regard to refugees.

(h) To take steps to ensure that resources provided for debt relief do not detract from official development assistance resources intended to be available for developing countries and that the debt relief arrangements seek to avoid imposing any unfair burden on other developing countries

(h) To take steps to ensure that resources provided for debt relief do not detract from official development assistance resources intended to be available for developing countries and that the debt relief arrangements seek to avoid imposing any unfair burden on other developing countries

The outcomes of such assessments can be combined with other assessments and strategic perspectives to gain a better idea of how multiple capacities are likely to contribute to or detract from the longer term efforts of the government to create and administer an effective system of governance and public administration.