Therese Ballard, Supplier Diversity A tool for economic development , presentation at 28th IAPWG meeting, Warsaw, May 2003.

True, China cannot entirely overlook US pressure and the staunch opposition of its top oil supplier, Saudi Arabia, to Iran s nuclear program.

The Supreme Court, however, ruled that the program was constitutional, citing a compelling state interest in racial diversity.

In December 2002, the Ministry of Education implemented the University Diversity Program, to encourage the promotion of equity and diversity in higher level education for Afro Brazilians, indigenous people and other socially marginalized groups.

Nestlé's supplier development in China

(IAEA safeguards export controls supplier measures)

With respect to supplier performance, ESCWA advises that, in the absence of a post of Supplier Roster Officer, the job description of one staff will include periodical maintenance of the supplier roster and relevant files.

China is also Burma s largest military supplier.

Box 2. Nestlé's supplier development in China

Its largest supplier is its stable neighbor, Canada.

The country is the biggest supplier of nurses.

Russia is the major weapons supplier to Sudan.

UNICEF is currently the world's largest supplier of ITNs.

The development of a renewed plan of action on women's health, with targeted objectives, will focus research, policy and program work from a gender, diversity and life course perspective.

A regular supplier of uranium for China s extensive nuclear weapons program (while overlooking its record of facilitating Pakistan s clandestine weapons development), Australia nonetheless justifies its stance on the grounds of India s refusal to sign the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty (NPT).

A United Nations Supplier Code of Conduct is also being formulated.

Some SMEs follow TNCs as their supplier firms in going abroad.

Like China, India views Central Asia as an important future energy supplier.

Outsourcing Outsourcing involves transfer of responsibility from an organization to a supplier.

The Nova Scotia Public Service Commission has established the Diversity Talent Pool, the Diversity Accommodation Fund, and the Diversity Round Table.

The world has changed its supplier of global public goods in the past.

Russia has been China s major supplier of weapons since the late 1990 s.

In the process, he damaged Russia s reputation as a reliable supplier of natural gas.

Strengthening of local supplier capabilities is indeed crucial in this regard, and it is here that positive corporate contributions to development could unfold tapping into, and proactively developing, the potential of local supplier linkages (UNCTAD 2001).

For the US, displacing Russia as India s leading arms supplier was a major diplomatic triumph, akin to Egypt s decision during the Cold War to shift its allegiance and its arms supplier from the Soviet Union to America.

Reiterating that a balance between consumption and production of opiate raw materials was achieved in the past as a result of efforts made by the two traditional supplier countries, India and Turkey, together with established supplier countries,

You had a monopoly supplier. On the left, you have Rupert Murdoch, or the BBC.

A diversity of...everything

Recognizing and respecting diversity

Convention on Biological Diversity

Convention on Biological Diversity

Convention on Biological Diversity

Diversity in modes of transportation Sustainable transportation emphasizes the use of a diversity of fuel efficient transportation vehicles in order to reduce greenhouse emissions and diversity fuel demand.

Within the framework of this theme, the focus of the United Nations Pavilion will be Celebrating Diversity , drawing on both cultural diversity and natural diversity, and their interdependence.

Russia today has retained its strength only as a supplier of energy and other natural resources.

(xii) All other information necessary to enable the supplier or contractor to participate in the auction.

In Brazil, ERAs are open to all suppliers registered in the centralized contractor supplier register (SICAF).

Afghanistan remains the world's largest supplier of opium, producing 87 per cent of the world's opium.

Convention on Biological Diversity Convention on Biological Diversity, 5 June 1992, http www.biodiv.org doc legal cbd en.pdf.

Convention on Biological Diversity. Implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity expanded programme of work on forest biological diversity (decision VI 22 of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, annex) is based on national priorities and needs.

There's a just unbelievable diversity.

Employment equity and workplace diversity

(h) Convention on Biological Diversity

Age, gender and diversity mainstreaming

CBD Convention on Biological Diversity