Gradually, the SCO shifted its focus to fighting Islamic radicals.

The US is not alone in shifting its security focus to East Asia.

Its primary focus is on the incorporation of protection standards and norms in operations and policies.

The US government has recently increased focus on its military's involvement in trafficking.

One of the main focus areas of the Task Force would be strengthening capacity and coordination for risk reduction.

ESCWA continues to focus on the development of a region that is under crisis conditions.

For my delegation, the flaws of the Commission lay mostly in its focus and not necessarily in its size.

Since 1999, the Basel Convention has been shifting its emphasis to regional and national implementation.

Encouraged by a religiously influenced administration, school systems are shifting their focus from science to values.

In recent years, the USG has increased its emphasis on financial rather than technical assistance.

UNIFIL operations remained concentrated along the Blue Line.

Japan has also taken steps to address the forgotten crises in Africa and will continue to focus on those issues.

The 2005 workplan of the Division for Human Resources includes an output that focuses on developing a succession management framework.

The benefits of such programmes, in terms of providing a focus for forest policy development and implementation, are widely recognized.

So, if the mission of reconciliation has any life left, its focus has shifted.

Europe should shift its focus on immigration and security back to policies that reflect the original objectives of the Barcelona Declaration.

Their emphasis has been on countercyclical measures intended to moderate the downturn rather than on restructuring.

Knowing the original amount of tritiated water that was ingested and the concentration, one can calculate the volume of water in the body.

In accordance with the desired objective of autonomy, schools themselves can determine the focus they wish to place on sex education.

The relevant multilateral institutions should sharpen their focus on the environment so that human tampering with nature is reduced.

Too many countries seem to be focused more on political outcomes than on economic performance.

Traditional dietetic advice now seems banal, with its almost exclusive focus on moderation.

In fact, the medieval university curriculum laid much more emphasis on scientific knowledge than does its modern descendent.

Monetary policy needs to look beyond its core focus on low and stable inflation and pay much greater attention to financial stability.

But the message is clear when domestic economies require stabilization, SWFs will shift their focus to domestic investments.

Can Could intersessional CRIC sessions, once focused on key operational issues, be limited to five working days?

Second, they should increase their focus on customers, including by soliciting and responding to feedback in an engaging way.

A review of the Evaluation Unit's work plan to date also shows that its actual focus was more limited than stated by the policy.

UNICEF also increased its focus on violence in schools, resulting in improved data and school based initiatives, as seen in Croatia.

As for Poland, although the bumbling Kaczynski twins have been removed from power, the country s fixation on security in its immediate neighborhood is incompatible with true European leadership.

The focus of negotiations on agricultural trade liberalization should also be broadened so as to stress the reduction in tariffs as well as in domestic support.

The Swedish Government set up a commission of inquiry in February 2004 to evaluate the goals, direction, organization and effectiveness of the gender equality policy.

From the outset, the new Government will need to ensure that it focuses on economic governance issues, particularly with respect to the management of public funds and natural resources.

UNICEF involvement in such partnerships as the FTI has further helped to reorient its focus towards sector wide and collaborative approaches.

The secretariat said that UNICEF was maintaining its strong focus on poverty, with some two thirds of total expenditures allocated to least developed countries in 2004.

20. Further decides that the Unit, as part of its focus on management issues, should assess the development and application in participating organizations of the principle of accountability in its relevant reports

Water resources The detailed description of water resources by all of the Parties reflected their emphasis on water management, including supply and demand, as a key area for adaptation in the future.

In this context, the Commission should strengthen its focus on sharing of experience, good practice and lessons learned to enhance implementation at national level and to contribute to the work of the Council.

At the same time, the study of public policy is distinct from political science or economics, in its focus on the application of theory to practice.

And then the government needs to focus more attention on structural adjustment the only effective cure for China s 3.2 trillion headache.

By focusing on this topic, the Commission would address the critical areas of concern on human rights of women, women and health, women and armed conflict, violence against women and education and training of women.

The secretariat was also requested to ensure that the next MTSP has a more systematic focus on specific and measurable targets for annual reporting.

This has, however, tended to preclude them from addressing cutting edge development issues and to focus them on the creation and strengthening of international institutions of a regional or subregional nature.

Political will is also cost free, and governments need to introduce management and financial incentives for modernizing services and shifting their focus from institutions to families and community based care.

While international relations theory includes many variants of traditional security, from realism to liberalism, the fundamental trait that these schools share is their focus on the primacy of the nation state.