We have no higher issue on our agenda than the preservation of our natural resources.

This issue is the most important item on our agenda.

My country continues to face critical challenges in determining our political agenda, which in turn affect our development efforts.

This brings me to our second point, the matter of the CD's agenda.

The report provides a solid basis for our discussion on the agenda item.

These very principles continue to motivate our commitment to ensuring that human rights issues receive prominence in our global agenda.

Our global future depends on bringing these individual talents and universal rights together in common cause. Let our common agenda begin.

We see our anti corruption agenda as being simultaneously pro business and pro development.

We have thus concluded our consideration of sub item (a) of agenda item 111.

Indeed, they have been mentioned once more this morning in particular the launching of informal sessions, including one devoted exclusively to our agenda, and another devoted exclusively to new and additional issues related to our agenda.

I am confident that he will ably lead our deliberations on this important agenda item.

Our first task is the adoption of our agenda for this year, and we believe that it should be possible for the Conference to adopt the same agenda, based on the Decalogue, which we adopted at the beginning of 2004.

We would like to express our gratitude to our sister republic Benin for having placed this item on this month's agenda of the Security Council.

Understandably, there has not been consensus on how every item on our agenda should be taken forward.

We have thus concluded this stage of our consideration of sub item (c) of agenda item 15.

We have thus concluded this stage of our consideration of sub item (h) of agenda item 17.

These are some our general comments relating to agenda items 45 and 55, which are important items.

It s unfair that we should have to hide our Palestinian identify to serve an agenda that excludes us.

Further steps to revitalize this body will therefore continue to be an important objective on our disarmament agenda.

That is why, we have formulated our agenda to reflect the issues highlighted in the Plan of Action.

At the very least, our agenda deserves to be updated along the lines of consensus agreed in 2004.

Rather, we should speed up our actions, as we have done in the pursuit of our national agenda for democratization, reform, good governance and human rights protection.

This item of our agenda has been a key component of the respective initiatives aimed at breaking our working deadlock including, latterly, the food for thought paper.

I would also like, on behalf of the delegation of Algeria, to express our hope for the speedy adoption of our agenda, as the rules of procedure require.

As we all know too well, this issue has already been on our agenda for more than 12 years.

The report's focus on the development agenda and the revival of our efforts in implementing the Millennium Development Goals prove that those issues are at the very heart of today's political agenda.

We hope to see progress on many fronts, so that both Mr. Gambari's visit and the possible visit by the Secretary General can advance our work and our common agenda.

Our two countries, Benin and Sweden, successfully co chaired the General Assembly's Open ended Working Group on an Agenda for Development.

Over time, the United Nations has become a mechanism for building consensus on the diverse and varied items on our agenda.

As noted in the previous report under this agenda item, we continue to risk becoming the victims of our own success.

These topics must have the same priority in our Organization's agenda as the challenges of ensuring lasting peace and of eradicating terrorism.

The difficulties that confront the Conference on Disarmament are not the result of inadequacies in the scope or currency of our agenda.

Generally, counter terrorism is very high on our international agenda and is becoming better integrated into the Union's political dialogue with other countries.

We would also like to express our appreciation to the delegation of Oman for its continued efforts in support of this agenda item.

In that regard, we must rationalize the Assembly's agenda and working methods to ensure that our annual deliberations yield meaningful and tangible outcomes.

An early decision will be a great leap forward in our common effort to make progress on the comprehensive United Nations reform agenda.

We cannot afford to exclude global disarmament and non proliferation from our agenda. We are not rid of the danger of nuclear annihilation.

The partners of the New Agenda Coalition have endeavoured to consult widely on our draft resolution, both in Geneva and in New York.

Engineering such an agenda is not an overwhelming challenge. But that will provide little comfort if you, our elected representatives, do not collaborate effectively.

The 2005 world summit has clearly demonstrated that, in five years, we have not given poverty eradication the highest priority on our international agenda.

We reaffirm our commitment to achieve the goal of sustainable development, including through the implementation of Agenda 21 and the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation.

Mr. Trautwein (Germany) At the outset, let me express our gratitude to the Romanian presidency for putting this important item on the Council's agenda.

I wish, therefore, to expound our views on the other item that we are discussing today, namely, the Global Agenda for Dialogue among Civilizations.

In our globalized world today, both parties cannot but work together if we are to achieve the results envisioned in the international development agenda.

We reaffirm our commitment to achieve the goal of sustainable development, including through the implementation of Agenda 21 and the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation.