Since the elections, the political process has continued to unfold in Iraq.

But the final and most vital lesson of perestroika concerns the pace of reforms and society s expectations.

ARLINGTON The rapprochement between the United States and Myanmar (Burma) has proceeded at a blistering pace.

The ECB is accelerating the pace of normalization at precisely the right moment. The danger is that it will be blamed if European growth falters.

In doing so, they are transforming their country in a slow but irreversible way.

UNICEF and its partners continued to make great strides in achieving tangible results for children.

We have also taken, and are about to undertake, steps to be re integrated into the world system.

Where the issues are still contentious, let us be prepared to take smaller steps.

In fact, new technologies are probably the most important reason why globalization is advancing at a rapid pace.

Yet, as China takes minuscule steps forward, Russia takes giant steps backward.

Some States (9 per cent) reported that they had not yet done so.

For something profound is changing in Europe, slowly, painfully, but surely.

They recognize that India has the most economically literate leadership in the world. They expect reforms to continue, albeit at a rather gentler pace.

A continent once afflicted by military takeovers has slowly but surely implanted stable democracies.

Steps should be taken to sustain the significant accomplishments of UNAMSIL Radio and of local initiatives like Talking Drums Radio.

But the pace of change needs to be speeded up, ensuring that the IMF in particular is able to adapt to post crisis challenges.

If people are saving half their income, their investments in capital have the potential to propel the economy at a rapid pace.

The percentage of countries that have not taken steps to ensure participation in and access to cultural life by persons with disabilities stands at 26.3 per cent.

Globalization proceeded at a rapid pace through much of the last century, and at a particularly accelerated rate during its last two decades.

Reaffirming the role of the United Nations in the field of disarmament and non proliferation and the commitment of Member States to take concrete steps in order to strengthen that role,

Certainly central banks have played a critical role. But central banks have stated that they do not have the policy instruments to accelerate the pace of economic recovery.

This legitimate mercantile concern has supposedly been reciprocated by small steps by Russia in the direction of a policy of sanctions against Iran.

A faster pace for rates hikes could have offset the slow start, but the ECB again erred on the side of caution.

Vodafone s customer service indicated that Telecom Egypt is going to block Skype in Egypt, and that it s out of their hands.

We hope that Israel, in cooperation with the Palestinian Authority and neighbouring countries, will take similar steps towards withdrawal from all occupied Arab territories and the establishment of a fully sovereign Palestinian State.

The new G 20 development agenda offers an excellent way to merge concerns about global imbalances with the need to accelerate the pace of development in the poorer countries.

Noting that the Government of the Territory continues to have financial, budgetary and internal control problems, but that it has recently taken steps to increase revenues and decrease government expenditures,

Most countries that have projects have agreements with MLF for early MB reduction steps and or early phase out as a condition of funding.

However, concrete and individualized cases under an optional protocol could provide an opportunity for the Committee to recommend tangible steps so that the Council could identify international measures to assist a State in need.

13. Emphasizes the importance of an effective arrangement for follow up, review and monitoring of the new programme of action for the least developed countries, and requests the Secretary General to recommend to the General Assembly concrete steps in this regard

In the broader Sudan context, the Security Council welcomes further progress achieved in the implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, in particular the signing of the Constitution for Southern Sudan and the formation of the Government of Southern Sudan (GOSS).

Credible measures that deliver and anchor savings in the medium term will help create space to accommodate growth today by allowing a slower pace of consolidation.

One reason for this might be due to the fact that the Committee's recommendations under the periodic reporting procedure are so general that it has not been possible to recommend concrete steps aimed at achieving progressive implementation of particular provisions of the Covenant.

But China can take steps to gain these countries trust. For example, China s leaders should work to address the unrest in the Muslim dominated province of Xinjiang more effectively.

Yes, these countries will recover at a slower pace than elsewhere, but countries that have fallen into a deep hole must work harder than those that have fallen into a shallow one.

To be sure, the Chinese are indeed rearming and even entering the military space race but they are doing so at a pace and to a proportion that reflects their new economic prosperity.

But a re elected Merkel would no doubt be willing to proceed, at least by small steps, on the creation of a European banking union, including a resolution mechanism that draws on eurozone wide resources.

When the high tech boom ended in 2000, the Federal Reserve orchestrated its replacement by the housing boom, while investment in Asia to supply the US market was chugging along at an increasing pace.

Kuwait would also like to stress the importance of rebuilding the Afghan armed forces, reforming the judicial institutions and suppressing all illicit armed groups with a view to enabling the Afghan Government to take control of the situation and to make progress in the political process.

In spite of a number of obstacles, that debate had moved on apace, and a growing number of Puerto Ricans of all political affiliations now regarded the proposed assembly as an indispensable tool in the search for consensus.

After all, Rome wasn t built in a day, and the EU rooted in the post war European Coal and Steel Community began with similar small steps toward integration.

Since traditional, widely respected standards organizations tend to operate at a slower pace than technology evolves, many standards they develop are becoming less relevant because of the inability of their developers to keep abreast with the technological innovation.

On average, countries in Latin America and the Caribbean spend less than 2 of their GDP on infrastructure, while 3 to 6 is needed to sustain rapid growth and keep pace with countries like China or Korea.

Indeed, even before the sudden downturn in the US economy, a growing number of members of the ECB s Governing Council already had come to the conclusion that accelerating the pace of interest rate increases was needed if its goal of monetary neutrality was to be achieved.

Israelis believe that Iran is galloping into the nuclear club, and will shrewdly use the prospect of talks with the US to pre empt tougher sanctions or a military strike.