Difficult decisions had been required but the efforts made had proved worthwhile.

The Note by the President summarizing this debate has proved very useful in the elaboration of the subject.

As a long term strategy, energy embargoes have always proven to be futile. Saudi Arabia saw its share of world oil exports drop sharply in the 12 years after the 1973 1974 embargo.

The Inter agency Standing Committee has demonstrated its usefulness in facilitating a coordinated and comprehensive humanitarian response to both complex emergencies and the generic problems that emerge.

The crime prevention instruments have proved useful in feeding discussion about general standards developed in other parts of the United Nations system.

Now the Fukushima tragedy is being used to justify continuing these economically dubious programs.

A final reason for the West to change course is that Western sanctions are proving increasingly useless.

For thirty five years, it has proven its effectiveness, above all in preventing the spread of nuclear weapons.

But even a joint expert level mechanism set up in 2007 merely for interaction and cooperation on hydrological data has proven of little value.

These programs have been shown to increase enrollment and attendance.

Preliminary contacts with the European Union proved to be positive, and the European Commission made an offer to the United Nations Office at Geneva to broadcast its invitations to bid free of charge in 11 languages.

Visiting missions had proved useful in that regard and she hoped they would continue in the same spirit of cooperation.

Factors that impede the optimal effectiveness of such resources include the failure of programmes to target those who need them the most, the failure to implement interventions with proven scientific effectiveness and bureaucratic obstacles to the rapid disbursement and use of available funds.

Adopting this more strategic approach to FDI will require policy makers to have full knowledge of the policy instruments that have worked in the past and to assess their relevance to current conditions.

The initiative of former Secretary General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar and the continued efforts of Secretary General Boutros Boutros Ghali have proved fruitful in securing the participation of major industrialized States in the Convention for achieving universality.

The examples below illustrate some of the kinds of programmes and approaches that have been effective in building protective factors to reduce crime and victimization among youth.

A variety of tools such as gender disaggregated data, gender analysis, gender responsive budgeting, gender sensitive monitoring and evaluation systems and gender sensitive indicators have proven useful.

So these are simple ideas, but we didn't know.

Reform should be undertaken gradually and structures which had proved their usefulness should be maintained.

7. Requests the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, subject to the availability of extrabudgetary resources, to prepare a handbook, for use by competent authorities, of proven and promising practices in the fight against kidnapping, including

They put money into unproven policy initiatives.

His delegation attached great importance to integrated programmes, which had proved to be an effective way of catering for individual countries' specific technical cooperation needs and ensuring optimum use of resources.

The subsequent unfolding of events testified to the above.

Seven successful meetings were held and experience from local sectoral round table meetings proved useful in establishing mechanisms and processes for assisting Governments to coordinate, manage and evaluate national programmes with multidonor participation.

For example, in the face of investor pressure, pharmaceutical companies have cut their research activities dramatically, relying instead on acquisition strategies. The aim is to de risk by buying up firms that have already carried out all of the costly blue skies research and have developed proven drugs.

The first strategy is problematic because it is unsustainable.

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Additional technical parameters applied in the course of ongoing monitoring and verification, that could be practicably verified with a minimal degree of ambiguity, have proven to be effective tools that prevented Iraq from developing proscribed missiles in the presence of international inspectors.

Satisfied that the current working methods of the Commission have proved their efficiency,

Even if you learn how he moved energy, what's the use?

Why should they change systems that proved so resilient?

Also, time and resources are wasted on the original projects before realizing they are not feasible projects.

The G 20 showed its effectiveness in responding to the crisis that erupted in 2008.

Regrettably, it is far from clear that it has changed its thinking and models, which failed to maintain the economy on an even keel before and are certain to fail again.

Subsequent events have proved the accuracy of that report apos s diagnosis of the threats to peace in Rwanda.

But America s strategy has failed.

Such activities have proven to be successful.

Proved! That won't be hard.

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(a) Records management programmes 15 19 developed

Moreover, he appears to believe that confrontations between the state and civil society are counterproductive.

Its inclusiveness and open ended nature were highlighted by many delegations as indicators of its relevance and success.

In essence, ideas about the workings of the economy that have proven their usefulness over the years.

I moved there primarily to be part of a learning environment that validated the way that I knew that kids learned, and that really wanted to investigate what was possible when you are willing to let go of some of the paradigms of the past, of information scarcity when my grandmother was in school and when my father was in school and even when I was in school, and to a moment when we have information surplus.

(b) The field PDA should fund programmes based on the same criteria as the headquarters PDA.