These focus on achieving the regional target figures.

Regional economic integration initiatives usually focus on trade liberalization, tariff reduction and quota abolition.

Without a regional focus, WANA countries risk sleepwalking into conflict and more pronounced economic decline.

Substantively, it hopes to focus meetings on a small number of regional and functional priorities.

Militarily, China will focus primarily on its regional supremacy, because the country s unity depends on it.

Now regional and national components of these bodies have signed agreements of their own, to focus on implementation.

Early in 2004, a regional protection initiative working group was established to focus on key humanitarian protection issues.

Alongside this focus on improving African governance, we must also put pressure on our leaders to encourage regional integration.

In West Africa, regular regional inter agency meetings were held with a particular focus on unaccompanied and separated children.

Rather than pondering or devising new borders, regional and external powers need to focus their efforts on holding Syria together.

The focus of Israel s regional policy should be building bridges to those peoples, the true masters of the current Arab awakening.

But does Turkey s shift of focus southward and toward regional power status come at the expense of the country s EU ambitions?

It is expected that the focus of the regional panel at the fifth session will be sustainable forest management in Asia.

Very often regional particularity translates itself or becomes apparent as a functional one a regional environmental or a human rights regime, for example, may be more important because of its environmental or human rights focus than as a regional regime.

Advocacy with global and regional trade blocs will be strengthened and industry relations enhanced to focus on essential commodities in poor countries.

Given the dynamics of development, future global initiatives in this regard will have to focus a great deal more on regional levels.

Its main focus will be on upgrading traditional processing enterprises in rural areas to supply higher value domestic, regional or international markets.

The focus therefore tends to be on identification of specific rules that should be adopted by the WTO and or regional FTAs.

In 2005, research efforts would focus on conducting regional consultations, coordinated by UNICEF, with nine scheduled for the first half of 2005.

They felt that regional cooperation should be the primary focus of the annual workshops and that Member States in the Asia Pacific region were not yet inclined to discuss the establishment of regional arrangement(s) either at the regional or at the subregional level.

Nuclear disarmament must therefore focus not only on a truly total elimination of stockpiles by the major powers, but also on regional powers concerns.

(d) The focus of the The Millennium Development Goals Report 2005 was at the global level and, to a lesser extent, the regional level.

These leaders departure from office reflected their countries internal politics, and their successors will focus more on declining support at home than on regional ambitions.

In addition, the Office of Operations will seek to promote regional peacekeeping capacity and organizational relationships and focus on partnerships to address cross cutting issues.

Regional customs enforcement should initially focus on sharing intelligence based on the analysis of the information collected and on operations to prevent illegal arms trafficking.

In its regional refresher courses, however, the focus is on areas of international law of direct relevance to the region for which the course is organized.

Activities should continue to focus on promoting subregional and regional cooperation and cross border dialogue with European Union States, particularly in the context of European Union enlargement.

The executive summary presents the key findings of the independent evaluation and recommendations on the strategic focus, management and modalities that the next regional programme may adopt.

Work on the development and codification of international law includes regional refresher courses, with a focus on areas of international law of direct relevance to the region.

A major focus of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations has been to cooperate with and to develop mutually supportive peacekeeping activities with African regional and subregional organizations.

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3. Invites the Regional Centre, taking into account the availability of financial resources, to focus its actions on the priorities identified in the recommendations of the Consultative Mechanism

The US military s protective umbrella gave large swaths of the world a vacation from war, making it easier for them to focus on economic growth and regional integration.

Therefore, its focus should be less on calibrating tactics per se than on recasting the regional context in which Iran s leaders will determine whether to proceed or desist.

On a regional level, the investment focus is to be on the Black Sea, the North Sea region, the Caspian region, the Middle East and Sub Saharan Africa.

The focus over the next biennium would be the improvement of the quality of evaluations commissioned by country offices, and of evaluation support services provided by regional offices.

Regional and international events have also emboldened the Egyptian opposition, not only to press for reform, but to focus on amending the constitution's articles that pertain to the presidency.

(c) Round table 3 will focus on promoting international cooperation including building partnerships for the benefit of countries and migrants alike, and optimizing the role of regional consultative processes

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Rather than pondering or devising new borders, regional and external powers need to focus their efforts on holding Syria together. The planned Geneva II conference is a necessary first step.

The coming summit between South Korea, China, and Japan on May 21 22 in Tokyo, for example, will focus on nuclear safety and prepare a regime for closer regional cooperation.

This has, however, tended to preclude them from addressing cutting edge development issues and to focus them on the creation and strengthening of international institutions of a regional or subregional nature.

I gotta focus.

Applying strategic focus.