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.

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.

On account of the plague of locusts, however, these measures have proved to be inadequate, so that a new strategy is needed in this area.

The studies have validated the ECW measures and identified numerous good practices.

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.

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

Unless they are supported by strong institutional structures at all levels, such measures will prove futile in managing capital flows.

They put money into unproven policy initiatives.

The subsequent unfolding of events testified to the above.

Actions to be completed

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.

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.

Measures Taken by the Administration

Measures taken by the United Nations Children apos s Fund

Measures taken by the administration

Measures taken by UNITAR

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.

Measures adopted by the government of canada

measures adopted by the governments of the provinces

measures adopted by the governments of the territories

Initial measures implemented by the Tribunals

Measures taken by the Government of Canada

projections that incorporate the effects of measures

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.