The issue was therefore an ongoing priority for his Government.

This issue is a matter of priority for the government.

This is a top priority issue for another 17 regions.

Water resources management is a priority issue for all of us.

The second issue is reform, with the financial sector a high priority.

The promotion of human rights continued to be a priority issue for the Department.

Preventing an arms race in outer space is a priority issue for the Russian Federation.

Among the priority areas, HIV AIDS is no longer treated as just a health issue, but as a most serious socio economic development issue.

Presenting those concerns within a security framework has served to underline security as the priority issue.

At the national level, the Chinese Government regarded the issue of human settlements as a top priority.

The promotion of dialogue among civilizations and cultures of peace was another priority issue for the Department.

Let me conclude by saying that this issue of children affected by armed conflict must remain an international priority.

We were pleased to hear from the Committee's Chair that that issue is a high priority for the CTC.

Lithuania believes that the issue of non strategic nuclear weapons, among others, should be addressed as a matter of priority.

The Ministers of Public Health should ratify the priority nature of the issue and adopt the new concept of risk management

Thus, we welcome the fact that the issue of the least developed countries is now a priority of the United Nations agenda.

Eleven percent of the respondents said that the prisoner issue should be the most important priority for the new government nearly twice the number who said that a peace settlement with Israel should be the top priority.

25. Decides to continue consideration of the issue of the right to development, as a matter of priority, at its fifty seventh session.

34. Decides to continue at its fifty eighth session consideration of the issue of the right to development, as a matter of priority.

Incidents of insecurity often arose from inter ethnic conflicts, exacerbated by illicit small arms and light weapons, a priority issue for the Government.

Fund raising will be a priority issue considered by the Board at its next session, together with the various policy issues indicated above.

We once again urge the Provisional Institutions to continue to address as their highest priority the issue of the implementation of standards as a whole.

Combating overfishing is a top priority for Canada and for our Prime Minister, who has spoken about the issue repeatedly at international conferences and bilateral meetings.

We are pleased to participate today in the discussion focused on PAROS, an issue to which various member States attribute priority in the Conference on Disarmament.

At the outset of this new round of consultations, it seems worthwhile asking ourselves Why does that issue prompt such priority interest? There are three possible explanations.

With regard to sanitation, the Commission stressed the need for establishing an institutional home for the issue and giving it priority in national development plans and budgets.

The issue has become a priority concern in financial management, and certifying officers have been instructed to be more diligent in reviewing cash contributions and financial projections.

She welcomed the high priority the Government was giving to the key issue of childcare, but noted that the problem would not be solved by institutions alone.

The first priority addresses the issue of indigenous rights on a global scale through the documentation and exchange of good practices for the implementation of Convention No. 169.

Mr. Maleki (Islamic Republic of Iran) said that the United Nations should endeavour to maintain the issue of decolonization as one of the priority items on its agenda.

4. Also decides to revert, as a matter of priority, to the issue of the capital master plan at the first part of its resumed sixtieth session, in March 2006

The Working Group devoted priority attention to the issue of trafficking in women and girls, and of trafficking in persons at its twenty fourth (1999) and twenty sixth (2001) sessions.

That continues to be an issue of high priority, because the safety of United Nations personnel is the primary factor in the success of the Organization's political and humanitarian operations.

The ADB is also exploring possibilities for focusing a subset of our operations around a few high priority economic corridors, which leads naturally to the issue of regional cooperation and integration.

Priority countries

Priority setting

Improving the working methods of the Special Committee and enhancing its efficiency were thus of critical importance, and Japan hoped that the Sixth Committee would continue to give priority to that issue.

In conclusion, I should like to reaffirm our conviction that the issue of women's participation in peace processes will receive comprehensive and priority consideration in the bodies of the United Nations system.

Priority was being given to malaria which was having a devastating impact and was a far more pressing issue in the Gambia than HIV AIDS, and to sensitizing communities to malaria prevention.

There are four high priority and 16 medium priority recommendations in the group.

Priority actions include

The law should have a complete set of priority rules covering all possible priority conflicts.

A disarmament matter of high priority for us is the issue of small arms and light weapons. The Sudan has suffered more than most from that scourge, which has fanned the flames of internal strife.

Law applicable to priority

Priority among several assignees