The main criterion for United Nations reform must be broad agreement among Member States.

There is widespread agreement that governments ought to prohibit the sale of at least some dangerous products.

In addition, there was a broad agreement that development was the shared responsibility of both developed and developing countries.

There was a notable difference in the minimum individual calorie requirement, ranging from below 2,000 to almost 3,000 kilocalories.

Without widespread agreement on the composition, election procedures and mandate of the Council, its credibility could be undermined even before it was established.

There was broad based agreement that the national human rights institutions (NHRI) pillar had been the most successful of the four.

There was widespread agreement on the need to reform the Security Council so that it becomes more democratic, accountable and transparent and more able to preserve peace.

Similarly, there is wide agreement that some water currently used by Israelis will have to be allocated to Palestinian use.

This is especially true where there is broad agreement about the best policy to deal with the crisis.

On this point, it was widely agreed that political counsellors and experts could handle much of the Council's work.

Each proposed measure has generated broad, bipartisan agreement among policymakers (at least behind closed doors).

Sound systems that predict revenue accurately, identify and track necessary spending correctly, and provide transparent access to records and financial transactions are widely agreed to be desirable.

On the positive side, we have broad agreement on higher quality capital and liquidity standards with appropriate phase in arrangements.

And, because it would be cheaper and easier than carbon cuts, there would be a much greater chance of reaching a genuine, broad based and thus successful international agreement.

Third, and most important, there was widespread agreement about how consensus within the Security Council on the hardest cases might be recreated.

In short, while we see valuable elements in each of those efforts, it is clear that, as yet, there is no broad based agreement.

There was broad agreement among participants that the High level Plenary Meeting should reaffirm the centrality of the General Assembly as the most representative deliberative policymaking organ of the United Nations.

In order to enhance prospects for international agreement on effective management, as the research community ventures further into deep sea environments, we encourage broad international collaboration and widespread availability of data, samples and findings.

For many years, there has been wide agreement on the need to adapt the United Nations and its main bodies to an international context that has evolved significantly since the creation of the Organization at the end of the Second World War.

That approach would permit us to achieve all of the major objectives for Security Council reform while preserving an environment conducive to broad agreement in September and cooperation in the years ahead.

While there has been widespread agreement, reflected in the report of the Ad Hoc Expert Group14 and in the Guadalajara report, on the need for financing of sustainable forest management, there have been differing views about future options for the arrangement.

Wider involvement

NEW HAVEN Financial markets and the so called Davos consensus are in broad agreement that something close to a classic cyclical revival may finally be at hand for the US. But is it?

And they populate much larger areas.

Corruption is widespread.

Achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDG s) by 2015 is a tremendous challenge facing the international community, and there is widespread agreement that additional external aid is required to meet it.

Such a sensitive issue as the reform of the Security Council should be resolved on the basis of broad international agreement, in accordance with the principle of equitable geographical representation and with due consideration of the contribution of States concerned towards the development of the global economy and regional and global security.

Parties to agree on the elements of an umbrella agreement that contains provisions for privileges and immunities

Image widely shared online.

With regard to some issues on which there is broad agreement or, better yet, consensus, decisions could be taken very soon, before the September summit.

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Effect of an arbitration agreement

In October 2005, Serbia and Montenegro opened discussions with the European Union on a stabilisation and association agreement widely seen as the preliminary step to formal adhesion talks at a later stage.

Cartoon widely shared on Facebook.

Despite Government agreement with the United Nations Mission in the Sudan (UNMIS) that victims should be free to receive medical treatment without first reporting to authorities, the policy still does not appear to have been widely disseminated to the police at the state level.

This photograph has been widely shared online.

Cartoons were being widely circulated

Baby Umar. Widely shared.

The photo was very widely published.

These too have been widely circulated.

Broad agreement is needed that any intentional killing of civilians and noncombatants is unacceptable, and that its perpetrators and supporters must be punished.

Hawaij is used extensively by Yemenite Jews in Israel and its use has spread more widely into Israeli cuisine as a result.

Such decisions by the COP MOP could affect the financial interests of third parties who may try to make claims against individual experts if they believe whatever the truth of the matter that an expert acted through conflict of interest or was otherwise improperly motivated.

It is widely used as an indicator of international aid flow.

Second, there was widespread agreement about what had caused the breakdown of consensus in the Security Council concerning how to respond to events in Syria (at least until the use of chemical weapons in August proved to be a game changer).