As a result, at times the military received unfiltered and unprioritized requests without having had the capacity to evaluate their relative importance.

What is the significance?

Recommendation 3, on reassessment of the intergovernmental machinery to streamline processes and avoid duplication, for example, was very important but in certain cases it appeared not to have received adequate consideration.

The participation of international financial institutions is vital.

This is where the Marshall Plan of American support became crucial.

The importance of these statements cannot be overestimated.

That is why right to know laws are so important.

As important as they are, international covenants do not represent an end in itself.

National development strategies were also crucial.

Blogs still remain a valuable place but are losing the ground to the newcomers.

While the international community has given the issue significant attention, it is not enough.

Tourism planning needs to reflect recent moves towards more integrated and consultative spatial and community planning, including processes like integrated coastal zone management.

Reductions in nuclear weapons, though significant, fell short of the New Agenda's expectations.

The round table discussions on young people called it making commitments that matter .

Otherwise, the global development agenda could lose its relevance, and thus its grip on stakeholders.

Official development assistance and multilateral bank lending, though valuable, remain insufficient.

The main challenge is not infrastructure and urban facilities, however important they are.

These meetings have proven a rich breeding ground for ideas and collaborations across borders.

Web sites are selected based on their cultural significance and research value.

Anyway, the first step has been taken and its importance cannot be overestimated.

To evaluate the situation of the world's young people is to evaluate the future of the world.

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A hundred and nine voted it a 10, the highest. Ten voted it one.

A state becomes a world power when its strategic significance and potential give it global reach.

Elections do occur in the Arab world, and they vary in frequency and significance.

Such a capacity will always be necessary, and few doubt its importance.

It remains crucial in a world populated by threatening states and terrorist organizations.

Sunni groups are supposedly trying to prove that they still matter, that they have been neither defeated nor deterred by US troops.

Its strategic relevance, even in the transatlantic partnership, is destined to weaken further.

Statistics on individual social media sites are also important when analyzing their role in a protest movement.

Those countries should be given a role in the work of the Council reflecting their importance and contributions to the United Nations.

Such efforts are all the more significant in the context of the international community's endeavours to attain the Millennium Development Goals.

Whatever the limits or contradictions of shared values, it would be naive to dismiss their importance.

Moreover, relations with the US, while important, are no longer paramount.

As they grow more significant (the result of greater global connectedness), they inevitably become harder to manage.

They need a way to remain relevant this could be it.

Ethics management is important to the promotion of good business practices, transparency and risk reduction.

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NEW YORK Now that it is clear that the United States is in recession, the debate has moved on to whether it will be short and shallow or long and deep a question that is as important for the rest of the world as it is for the US.

In that case, the benefits would wane in importance as new competitors entered the banking fray.

We are of the view that the traditional mechanisms of non proliferation, important as they are, have proven to be insufficient to deal with current challenges.

As the CTBT would halt further proliferation or enhancement of nuclear weapons by prohibiting explosive testing, so would an FMCT turn off the tap of fissile material required for the production of such weapons in the first place.

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