This development offers an unprecedented opportunity.

Slum upgrading provides a unique opportunity for attaining the Millennium Development Goals.

The DPI Conference provides the opportunity for unprecedented networking and partnership development.

There is a huge window of opportunity for private sector led development in Africa.

Only social and economic development will provide us an opportunity to realize sovereign equality.

Infrastructure development provides not only the foundation for technological activities, but also the opportunity for technological learning.

Mr. Kuroda (Asian Development Bank) We stand today at a crossroads of great opportunity and great uncertainty.

There is a huge window of opportunity for private sector led development in Africa. But taking advantage of this opportunity requires a new approach to private financing of Africa s development, in which Africa is the lead investor in its own economic renaissance.

Along with outward development and increase of opportunity, there should be inward development and deepening of our heart connections as well as our outward connections.

But an overarching collective commitment is needed to take advantage of this opportunity, and to achieve inclusive development.

In both cases, these workers lose the opportunity for engagement and personal development that most legitimate jobs provide.

This summit gives us an opportunity to review progress and reaffirm our commitment to the Millennium Development Goals.

The development of national implementation plans (NIPs) on POPs, provide the opportunity for Parties to prioritize capacity needs.

President Yudhoyono We have the opportunity today to consider the problem of lack of resources, especially financial resources, for development.

The MDG summit is missing an opportunity to begin this much needed revolution in our understanding of economic development as well.

Decent work also implies equality of opportunity and treatment as well as good prospects for both personal development and social inclusion.

Affirm gender equality and equity as prerequisites to sustainable development and ensure universal access to education, health care and economic opportunity.

Business development is central it is the key to opening the door of opportunity for employment and the ability to prosper.

The triennial comprehensive policy review provided Member States with the opportunity to ensure a coherent and coordinated United Nations development system.

T his is a moment of opportunity for making progress in Africa's development for which NEPAD is the main policy framework.

Also, the campaigns provide an opportunity for young women and men, particularly those at risk, to participate in community centred development.

Fair and balanced globalization has provided many with an opportunity to progress towards greater development, and each and every country must shoulder its responsibility for accomplishing its own development agenda.

Mr. Kaberuka (African Development Bank) I am honoured to have this opportunity to address the General Assembly in the name of the African Development Bank, whose presidency I assumed this month.

This agricultural revolution embraced the development of monoculture and presented an opportunity for the rapid spread of several species of plant viruses.

The Conference offered an opportunity to continue consideration of the development of a mechanism to facilitate and coordinate implementation of the Convention.

In 2003 the Department of Women's Affairs proposed development of new legislation to include policies for equal employment opportunity and sexual harassment.

78. Encourages development agencies of the United Nations system to seek to maximize the opportunity to address development challenges on a regional or subregional basis, where appropriate, recognizing the important contribution of regional cooperation to national and regional development

Furthermore, the prevalence of peace creates an opportunity for a turning point, an opportunity that can be seized thought capital intensive programmes for the social and economic infrastructure needed to achieve the Millennium Development Goals and to sustain peace.

This will represent a unique opportunity to highlight the contribution that sustainable forest management can make to achieving the internationally agreed development goals.

The crisis can yet be an opportunity to turn from a path of financial bubbles and excessive consumption to a path of sustainable development. In fact, seizing this opportunity is the only recipe for genuine growth that we have left.

The crisis can yet be an opportunity to turn from a path of financial bubbles and excessive consumption to a path of sustainable development.

The September summit will first and foremost be an opportunity to reinvigorate the implementation of the Millennium Declaration, with development issues at its core.

The 10 year review of the Copenhagen Summit by the Commission for Social Development had provided an opportunity to assess the level of implementation.

The 10 year review of the Barbados Programme of Action provided us with an opportunity to look back at our efforts towards the sustainable development of our countries with the support of our development partners.

In today s crisis lies tomorrow s opportunity economic opportunity, measured in jobs and growth.

We need to rethink the climate challenge as an opportunity for global brainstorming and cooperation on a series of technological breakthroughs to achieve sustainable development.

The BRICS proposed New Development Bank presents an important opportunity to reflect these changes, with modern financial instruments, strong governance, and a broad based mandate.

The Gulf Cooperation Council countries witnessed record growth rates offering them an opportunity to be the engine of economic growth that fosters region wide development.

The Permanent Mission of Spain avails itself of this opportunity to renew to the United Nations Industrial Development Organization the assurances of its highest consideration.

As the GEF land degradation executing agency linked to the GM, IFAD has the opportunity to match land degradation to poverty reduction and development concerns.

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And in talking about financing for development, I should like to take the opportunity to welcome the excellent initiative of Presidents Chirac and Lula da Silva, who have proposed innovative machinery for financing international development assistance.

This development poses the most significant challenge yet to current President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and a potential opportunity to alter the relationship between Iran and the West.

The World Justice Project works to lead a global, multidisciplinary effort to strengthen the Rule of Law for the development of communities of opportunity and equity.

The international community's efforts on the Millennium Development Goals provided an opportunity to expand strategies, apply good practices more broadly and leverage change in women's lives.