Comments were also made on the relevance of agenda items and the desirability of tailoring agendas so that more time was available to focus on practical outcomes. Many participants

The UNICEF response falls within the scope of the priorities of the MTSP, and is based on its Core Commitments to Children (CCCs) in emergencies.

Capital expenditure in the US is recovering more strongly, and exports are picking up.

Finally, Obama is right to focus more on the behavior of countries than on their nature.

Some delegations urged that a larger proportion of regular resources should be allocated to this focus area.

It also required that staff focus less on verification and reporting, and more on strengthening the skills of national counterparts to carry out these functions.

By focusing purely on cutting CO2, we neglect to help many more people, much faster, and less expensively.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel recently urged that all parties involved focus more on practical steps.

This is not the only reason why looking more closely at energy and carbon taxes makes sense. The current framework for energy taxation, particularly in Europe, is not sustainable.

In this way, I expect to be able to ensure more focused, orderly and accountable decision making.

It was also observed that further development of the topic should give greater emphasis to the polluter pays and precautionary principles.

UNICEF supported programmes will ensure that more emphasis is placed on scaling up effective models, applying lessons learned.

The EU IMF program is off track, and more focus must be put on growth.

In doing this, we will be further assisting the continuing reform of the United Nations by helping to ensure a sharper focus on outcomes.

And the candidates performances are scrutinized less on the substance of their arguments than on their presentation, body language, facial tics, unguarded sighs, smiles, sneers, and inadvertent eye rolling.

If we continue to delay military action, we will have to intervene with greater force when the carnage spreads to Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, Turkey, and Iraq.

Militarily, Japan revised its law on the Self Defense Forces to establish procedures for ballistic missile defense, with a strong focus on North Korea.

More must be done to focus on crucial issues, such as emigration, implementation of the Millennium Development Goals, poverty in its entirety and South South cooperation.

It was recommended that the roles and responsibilities be more clearly established to enable desks to focus more on essential functions such as strategy, analysis and evaluation.

They should also increase their focus on scientific and technological training and encourage a higher proportion of students to go on to university education.

Treasury is satisfied that the focus on matching the more predictable outflows provides results commensurate with the liquidity needs of the Organization.

The proposals contained in the report which seek to have the Economic and Social Council focus more on development issues are worth considering.

Similarly, some focus areas of this plan are likely to receive relatively greater weight within UNICEF cooperation in LDCs or emergency affected countries (e.g., focus area 1), compared to others in middle to higher income countries (e.g., focus area 5).

The contribution of sector based programmes to the survival and development of young children is being given greater attention, together with more focus on convergence of services in support of families, parents and marginalized groups.

The IMF focuses on crisis prevention, and in the past decade encouraged greater transparency and stronger financial systems.

Stronger emphasis has been put on bringing United Nations agencies and MONUC together in the development of common security arrangements and expanding humanitarian space, as well as for strategic planning and advocacy.

The international community is again firmly focused on China s relationship with its rogue ally, and expects that, as an emerging superpower seeking to reassure the world of its peaceful rise, China will play a constructive role.

In addition, UNDP has recently revised its Programming Manual and has adopted an industry standard project management method, Prince2, which focuses on results.

This problem is exacerbated by the fact that the world s biggest exporter, China, is aggressively intervening to minimize any appreciation of the renminbi.

It encourages fundamental analysis of a company s operations, and some advocates hope that a Tobin tax would push firms themselves to focus even more on long term value.

This concentration on the most senior leaders suspected of being most responsible for crimes committed within the jurisdiction of the ICTR is in conformity with Security Council resolution 1534 (2004).

However, the high seas focus must not mislead us into thinking that the greatest challenges related to resource management and conservation are to be found on the high seas.

Markus argued that social pressures can influence media use much more strongly than richness, and in ways that are inconsistent with media richness theory's key tenets.

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With the border issue effectively controlled, there should be greater focus on trade and multilateral issues, where success could bring about a new and welcome chapter in bilateral ties.

It was also suggested that the evaluation could be more narrowly scoped by focusing on summits and conferences related to resource mobilization within the context of poverty eradication.

The US is more powerful than any country since the Roman Empire, but like Rome, America is neither invincible nor invulnerable.

Support for small scale project implementation with a strong element of capacity building, including among local non governmental organizations (NGOs), will also continue to be significant in some situations, such as emergency response and post crisis transitions.

Only then will all members again concentrate on getting things done for all instead of each of them on getting the most out of it for himself.

To ensure greater clarity and decrease the risk of exposing the Fund to a failure of internal control, the emphasis in the forthcoming biennium will be on improving and strengthening financial accounting as an activity in itself.

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Spotlight Response to major emergencies Indian Ocean and Darfur

Spotlight Supply operations in support of the MTSP targets and the Millennium Development Goals

Spotlight Supply operations