Untimely?

That exercise is overdue.

Tell me, what prompted that untimely invitation?

I have to say that these positive developments have not come too soon.

This is way obsolete.

But it is better to begin the ethical discussion too early than too late.

Ideas such as microcredit and non formal education whose time has surely come have been replicated widely.

In order to optimize the potential effectiveness and benefits of the system, the Department expected to issue guidelines to the missions and indicated that the missions would appoint a focal point.

Untimely redeployment of funds by the Division results in excess expenditure at the field level.

The management plan addressed only partially the programme to be developed and it suffered from outdated information.

To paraphrase a well known expression we could say that the United Nations is a good idea whose time has finally come.

I felt like quiz show contestant was now the first job that had become obsolete under this new regime of thinking computers.

The global recession has simply brought that problem forward a few years.

Governments should fulfil their reporting requirements and submit information to the Board in a timely manner.

(b) Establishment of a high level oversight coordinating mechanism in the Organization to strengthen monitoring of oversight reports and timely implementation of oversight recommendations.

The Philippines called on all Member States concerned, including the former Members, to settle their financial obligations in full and on time.

The granting of advanced home leave shall not advance the calendar year in which the next home leave falls due.

We also understand the report as a timely invitation to think about, and to try to peer behind, the everyday scene of international affairs.

The terminal report on the project pointed to the publications quot already becoming obsolete quot .

Given the sometimes increasing difficulties of understanding between the different cultures of our world, the initiative for an Alliance of Civilizations has come at the right moment.

He called upon the Secretariat to improve the performance and assessment of the integrated programmes and to mobilize as much funding as possible in order to ensure that the programmes were implemented on time.

The Group called upon all Member States to pay their contributions in full and on time and reiterated its appeal to former members to fulfil their financial obligations to the Organization.

We must all learn from the hard lessons of the past, and in that spirit we welcome the draft resolution on Holocaust remembrance as a timely initiative.

34. A number of speakers stressed that the Department of Public Information needed continually to prioritize its information activities and to dispense with outdated mandates.

Timely and full payment of assessed contributions and early settlement of dues would go a long way towards enabling the Organization to achieve its goals more effectively.

Mr. BATIOUK (Ukraine) This ongoing discussion testifies once again to the timeliness and relevance of the issue of equitable representation on and increase in the membership of the Security Council.

Unfortunately, spent fuel storage has been an afterthought, as Ernest Moniz, Director of the Energy Initiative at MIT, puts it.

It is also trying to determine whether there are mandates for documentation that have become obsolete and could be discontinued and has focused on efforts to reduce the length of the annotated preliminary list of items.

They enlisted some of the foremost experts in the rapidly developing field of space applications for disaster warning and mitigation, and the presentations were both timely and highly informative.

16. Requests the Secretary General to submit proposals relating to activities that may have become obsolete with a view to reallocating resources to priority areas

Europe, for its part, could agree not to shoot its recovery in the foot with ill timed new taxes such as those that Germany is currently contemplating.

Mr. Mahiga (United Republic of Tanzania) My delegation extends a warm welcome to the honourable minister of Romania and thanks Romania for organizing this important and timely debate.

In this regard, the present debate concerning the question of equitable representation on and increase in the membership of the Security Council, and related matters, is timely and pertinent.

Have adopted the Mauritius Strategy for the Further Implementation of the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States taking into account new and emerging issues, and commit ourselves to the timely implementation of the Strategy

Rather than wait until the next budget to delete additional obsolete outputs, he should propose outputs for deletion throughout the year.

In this context of rapid changes in the world social, economic and political situation, we believe that a global initiative such as the one that is currently being mooted is both timely and very necessary.

On behalf of the members of the Asian Group, I extend our deepest condolences to the family of Ambassador Koumbairia, the members of the Permanent Mission of Chad to the United Nations and to the Government of Chad on his sudden and untimely death.

In his historic budget speech to Parliament in 1991, Singh, quoting Victor Hugo, declared that no power on Earth can stop an idea whose time has come.

41. Ms. BROOKES (United Kingdom) said that the basic position of the United Kingdom with respect to the draft articles was that, in the light of contemporary State practice, the old rule of absolute immunity was obsolete.

(f) Tightening of the focus of the overall programme by identifying and further developing successful services and activities, while eliminating obsolete, irrelevant or unsuccessful ones.

There are issues of great interest to all about which we would like to have more information and on which the Security Council could report to the General Assembly in greater detail and in a more timely fashion.

The task forces were requested, inter alia, to review current mandates for documentation and determine whether any such mandates were obsolete and should be discontinued, with a view to making recommendations to the relevant intergovernmental bodies.

The Republic of Korea welcomed the proposed discontinuation of 3,019 obsolete, ineffective or marginally useful outputs, but noted that some sections of the budget proposal lacked any recommendations for their deletion.

Many other countries have stressed the point that, since the agenda and objectives set forth by the first special session on disarmament (SSOD I) have yet to be fulfilled, they are not out of date and require continued efforts.

It was emphasized in that regard that the agenda of the Conference should be focused, allowing delegations to undertake thorough preparations on the basis of documentation provided in a timely manner by the secretariat and to hold open and substantive discussions.