Disengagement from Gaza would be a decisive step in that direction.

This was, according to observers, a decisive step that considerably shortened the conflict.

But still, last Friday the EU took a decisive step in the right direction.

The road ahead is not free of difficulties, but the Strategy represents a decisive step towards solving the challenges of the twenty first century and preparing us for the world of tomorrow.

The path towards nuclear disarmament step by step, comprehensive or incremental comprehensive

The Arab Middle East takes a decisive turn towards authoritarian Islamic states.

For Gaddafi, this was an important step towards socialism.

Morsi s Constitutional Declaration was a decisive though undemocratic, polarizing, and thus politically costly step to break the impasse.

Many hope it will be a first step towards a ban.

The report should be seen as a first step towards action.

That event has become another important step towards restoring statehood to Afghanistan.

Given the gruesome picture of atrocities painted today by the representative of Uganda, that decisive step could not have occurred too soon.

Common and more integrated supervision is the first step towards a banking union.

One critical step is to ensure zero tolerance towards those who promote extremism.

And this week, we have taken a very important step towards that end.

This is an important step towards normalization of relations between the two sides.

For Cuba, it is only one step on the path towards nuclear disarmament.

Advance planning is the first crucial step towards effective management of conference services.

The first step, a step by step approach, entails negotiations on a limited number of initial steps towards nuclear disarmament, with additional steps being considered once the first steps are achieved.

It is a first step towards Ukraine s eventual full integration into the EU Single Market.

This will commence in 2006 and is part of Vanuatu's commitment towards the Education for All target and an interim step towards universal education.

The Bonn process mapped a step by step transition towards increasingly legitimate power structures, culminating in the establishment of a fully representative and freely elected government.

Today, as yesterday, the first step towards Serbia s European integration is full cooperation with the ICTY.

The November 21 referendum marks another pivotal step towards consolidating Kenya s transition to a real democracy.

The reforms have been lauded as a crucial step towards a more stable two party system.

Croatia has now taken a major step forward towards addressing the injustices of its recent past.

This is a step forward towards a future convention that would prohibit all forms of human cloning.

Those elections were an essential step in the Iraqi people's path towards stability and democratic self governance.

We believe that successful disengagement can be the first step towards the resumption of the peace process.

Investing in the people of Africa is another step towards eradicating poverty and building peace and stability.

But it would be a decisive first step toward changing the regional balance of power that would enable the stabilization of Iraq and the region as a whole.

But it is hard to see how the single currency can survive much longer without a decisive move towards a far stronger fiscal union.

These thinkers often imprecisely called Federalists refer to the Constitution as a necessary step towards a European federation.

Obviously, the universalization of the BTWC would be an important step towards preventing the spread of biological weapons.

It hoped that, as a significant first step towards that end, the Conference would arrive at a consensus.

It cannot be the end, but rather a step towards the full implementation of the Quartet's road map.

The Paris Club Agreement with Iraq of November 2004 represents a significant step towards long term debt sustainability.

UNICEF agrees that reducing the number of payroll systems is the first step towards a common payroll system.

This not only constitutes a decisive step towards ensuring that the crimes committed in Darfur the extent of which demonstrates once again the inextricable link between peace, security and the administration of justice do not go unpunished it also sends an important message in relation to other situations of comparable gravity and magnitude.

Both countries together, however, must inaugurate the step towards economic union, which requires that both governments actually want that.

But the withdrawal of American nuclear weapons from Europe is by no means the first step towards nuclear disarmament.

The first step towards implementing such policies, however, must be to re invent and reinvigorate a pan African identity.

Hence, in the absence of negotiations, a unilateral withdrawal is the only meaningful step towards de escalation and stabilization.

The Programme is a significant, but only the first, big step towards achieving the goal of controlling that scourge.

They left, however, because they viewed them as lacking credibility and as being a step towards an independent Kosovo.