It was replaced by a substantially reduced Rule of Law Department.

We believe that costs could be reduced considerably.

Payments in cash, particularly to contractors, have been significantly reduced.

Advisory services were also reduced considerably from previous bienniums.

Companies have drastically reduced the scope of social benefits.

The withdrawal represents a welcome reduction of military forces in the Baltic Sea region.

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Documentation had been improved and the receivables outstanding for 2003 had dramatically reduced.

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Electronic technologies have facilitated the use of reverse auctions by greatly reducing the transaction costs.

The United States and the Russian Federation under START II have significantly reduced their nuclear arsenals.

The South African military has reported that military intelligence spending had been sharply reduced.

24. His delegation was of the view that the statistical base period should be much shorter.

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Projections made by that Ministry for 2005 in terms of investment in quality show a budgetary reduction by almost one half.

Consequently, the need to reduce substantially and ultimately eliminate them must remain our primary goal.

Overall, this represents a volume reduction of 1.1 million and cost increases amounting to 3.2 million.

The flow of official development assistance to Africa has shown a significant reduction, and is far from the recommended level.

6. Attainment of the full dignity of the human being demanded a substantial reduction in economic and social inequality.

Since the end of the cold war, NATO has significantly reduced the number of tactical nuclear weapons in its arsenal.

Several countries, particularly in Latin America, had considerably reduced their debt problem through internal adjustment efforts.

3. The Administrator apos s estimates reflect a volume reduction of 41.8 million under UNDP core activities.

About 47 per cent of households had seen their income plummet by more than 50 per cent over the same period.

Alternatively, the Secretariat should proportionately reduce the additional funds for security to be sought for the current biennium.

61. To achieve a rapid and substantial reduction of maternal morbidity and mortality in accordance with quantitative goals to be adopted by the Conference for the period up to 2015.

quot Convinced of the urgency of further negotiations for the substantial reduction and qualitative limitation of existing nuclear arms,

Estonia to move to Level B immediately upon the effective date of the new scale, forgoing its transition time

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Our national targets include a 50 per cent reduction in the number of people living below the poverty line during the period 2001 2010.

Other Member States in arrears are encouraged to consider submitting payment plans to steadily reduce their outstanding assessed contributions.

In field offices, there has been a reduction in the number of staff at all levels of at least one international officer and one national staff member per office.

This represents a volume reduction of 438,000 in respect of 1993 for the base 1992 1993 biennium.

We believe that such a system to be fair and reliable should include a reduction in the share of assessments borne by the United States.

Since a high proportion of public expenditure consists of civil service salaries, this implies major personnel retrenchment.

4. These estimates reflect decreases corresponding to the reduction of 17 Local level and 37 Field Service posts.

The successful conclusion of START II between the United States and the Russian Federation has significantly reduced the world apos s two biggest nuclear arsenals.

71. The revised estimates also included a volume reduction of 438,000 relating to the application of the staffing formula for the United Nations Volunteers (UNV).

4. These estimates reflect decreases corresponding to the reduction of 17 Local level and 37 Field Service posts.

Reforming countries in debt crisis require an adequate and permanent reduction in the stock of debt . (Ibid., para. 27)

The only way out of the vicious circle of debt was to cancel the public debt of the least developed countries and substantially reduce that of middle income countries.

Supply Division, through a major restructuring exercise that will be in line with the MTSP focus areas, will have a net reduction of one post.

Following the elections in October 2005 and the subsequent drawdown of staff, the Committee expects a commensurate reduction of vehicles in all categories.

The resource requirements described below, showing a net reduction of 6,950,000, reflect the result of the streamlining efforts of the Secretariat.

In a time of transition to a market economy, we intend to make the State apos s role more streamlined and open and significantly reduce its interference in economic activities.

37. The present statistical base period should be considerably shortened in order to reflect better the actual capacity to pay.