8 30, breakfast here with the embassy staff.

Unsurprisingly, Yanukovych has consistently stated his preference for an Association Agreement.

He expressed a preference for the Territory to become independent within a political union of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS), an idea that is currently under consideration.

President Obama's whole record on national security is a tribute to his strength, to his judgment and to his preference for inclusion and partnership over partisanship.

But many netzines have wondered whether his choice for development over democracy is an applicable thought in the context of Ethiopia.

A number of delegations expressed preference for removing the brackets in the alternative text of draft article 73, thus referring both to national and international legislation.

He expressed a preference for restricting, rather than extending, the situations in which armed conflict could interrupt the treaty relations among States and, therefore, favoured excluding non international armed conflict.

While speakers agreed that the working methods of the functional commissions should be further improved, one delegation favoured harmonization of the functional commissions' multi year programmes of work and their periodic cycles.

He consistently blamed France s poor export performance on the strong euro, favoring a politically subservient ECB whose mandate should include economic growth as well as price stability.

35. In approving the capital assets fund of 22 million in its decision 1990 26, the Executive Board indicated its preference for joint ownership of premises by United Nations agencies.

8. Concerning the law of the non navigational uses of international watercourses, his delegation confirmed its preference for a framework convention over model rules and supported the latest draft articles submitted by the Commission.

In stating his preference for selective intervention' as opposed to affirmative action', he stressed that UNDP management sought to intervene' to ensure gender equality based on equal rating and merit in recruitment.

One delegation supported a more integrated international environmental governance structure, based on existing institutions, and favoured the establishment of a United Nations agency for the environment, based on the United Nations Environment Programme but with a revised and strengthened mandate.

The Special Rapporteur clearly preferred the words validity invalidity , which were entirely neutral, to the other terms proposed, such as admissibility inadmissibility , permissibility impermissibility or opposability non opposability , which had strong doctrinal connotations.

His political future may depend on it. His advisers, and recent opinion polls, suggest that if he fails to sign a deal, he will lose the March 2015 presidential election.

At its seventh session, the Working Group expressed a preference for Variant B of the proposed article 5 bis Notice of procurement opportunities , as contained in A CN.9 WG.I WP.34 Add.2, which provided as follows

He rejected what he described as the European style of very large government and high tax rates and the American style of lower tax rates but large fiscal deficits, in favor of low budget deficits and a tax system that would promote opportunities for individuals and private enterprises.

A large number of delegations expressed a preference for the alternative draft text, set out above in paragraph 130, since it appeared to better and more clearly achieve the goal of avoiding any conflict with the Arrest Conventions, particularly given the number of complex issues and potential areas of conflict that could arise.