Financial reforms should top the agenda, beginning with interest rate liberalization.

Among the North African countries, Egypt and Morocco dominate the reported receipts.

CA And they were probably pleased to see you on top of the Time poll.

This recognition put water and sanitation high on the agenda at Johannesburg.

Malaria is one of Ethiopia's foremost health problems, ranking at the top of the list of communicable diseases.

The participation of young people in decision making processes is one of the key priority areas of the United Nations agenda on youth.

These are startling figures. Yet, they have not made headlines like, say, a plane crash would.

In terms of GDP per capita, Qatar is the richest developing country in the world.

The Treaty on the Non Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, the Chemical Weapons Convention and the Biological Weapons Convention, and the other major arms control, disarmament and non proliferation agreements, particularly in the field of weapons of mass destruction, are all multilateral in character.

Dramatic, headline grabbing attacks against Iraqi citizens, aimed at breaking their will, continue.

Human rights are also at the core of efforts to avert new flows of refugees and other displaced persons.

Further promotion and implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and all other international normative instruments that promote women's human rights remain a top priority.

Further promotion and implementation of the Convention and all other international normative instruments that promote women's human rights remain a top priority.

In closing, we urge all States to help strengthen the institution that is at the forefront of the campaign against impunity.

Central Asia is frequently in the news these days and most of the news seems to be bad.

Among the many Syrian cities and towns making news headlines today is Homs, a city which dates back to 2300BC.

So that everyone knows!!!

Access to quality health care services must be a top priority in order to improve the global situation of young people.

Correspondingly, Forum decisions need to be well positioned in the agendas of other bodies, to ensure clear messages at the international level.

Stories of government paid thugs wrecking havoc continued to dominate our time lines, as the death toll and injuries continued to pile up. Back in Tahrir, the mood seems jubilant, with Mubarak's thugs at bay.

United Nations libraries must stay at the forefront of the field of information technology if they are to meet the demand for reliable common information services.

Terrorism, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction to non State actors, the existence of nuclear weapons, and armed conflict top the list of global security issues.

Accountability should be a particular focus of the Committee's discussions, since the delegation of authority lay at the heart of the reforms adopted four years previously.

Many regional organizations have been entrusted, under the provisions of Chapter VIII of the Charter, with dealing with a number of conflicts that are at the centre of the Security Council's attention.

As representatives of my country have stressed in the Assembly over the years, settling the internal conflict in the Transnistrian region of the Republic of Moldova is our greatest priority.

The Governments and peoples of the countries affected deserve the highest praise, for they are the ones who have suffered and yet they remain at the forefront of the relief efforts.

ROME Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi s political and sexual exploits make headlines around the world, and not just in the tabloid press.

If one looks at multilateral trade imbalances, the US stands head and shoulders above all others.

Efforts like these may not make headlines. But security is like health you never notice it until it takes a turn for the worse.

Of the world's ten leading countries in terms of reforestation, five belong to the region (China, India, Indonesia, Japan and Thailand).

2. Urges the Conference to fulfil that role in the light of the evolving international situation, with a view to making early substantive progress on priority items on its agenda

2. Urges the Conference to fulfil that role in the light of the evolving international situation, with a view to making early substantive progress on priority items on its agenda

UNHCR had been tasked to lead the sectoral clusters of agencies on protection, camp coordination and management and emergency shelter in a new framework to be applied for future emergencies.

Argentina has been on the front pages of the world s newspapers, with stories describing an economic and social crisis born of debt default and devaluation, unemployment and widespread poverty.

Every State is constantly studying ways to enable its people to live in a safe world, and the United Nations is at the forefront of gathering and sharing the accumulated knowledge and experience of Member States in that regard.

In 1991, the first place on the list of leading causes of death and years lost due to disability, were diseases of the cardiovascular system (50 per cent), such as hypertension and coronary diseases.

Basketball was second, because it was paying their way, and they do need a little time for social activities, but you let social activities take a little precedence over the other two and you're not going to have any very long.

Has the United States transcended the laws of economics? As the New Year begins, the US continues to race ahead of its rich country counterparts.

The website also has a map and statistics on the Who and What For of the Russian bribing (the former contains 14 entries so far, with courts and traffic police topping the list).

And because we started this work around the time of the financial collapse, around the time when foreclosures were hitting the news, we said, hhmm, maybe we should actually start in the financial domain.

Fifteen of the world s 20 biggest trade fairs (measured by indoor exhibition space) are held in Germany, and the country tops the list in world commodity exports.

But, more interestingly, the nuclear boom is not global Brazil is at the forefront in Latin America, while the fastest development is occurring in Asia, mostly in China and India.

According to Shanghai Jiao Tong University s Academic Ranking of World Universities, for example, 17 of the world s 20 best universities are American, with Harvard topping the list by a substantial margin.

A report by the International Monetary Fund in 2009 indicated that Iran tops the list of countries losing their academic elite, with an annual loss of 150,000 to 180,000 specialists.

While the United States and the European Union (EU) 15 top the list, with their markets exceeding 6 trillion each, developing countries' markets are the main concern of global retailers.