Family Cohesion

Ensuring policy coherence is a major Government responsibility.

International systemic coherence therefore assumed particular importance.

Advancing global initiatives that strengthen policy coherence, both nationally and internationally, is crucial.

Firstly, ensuring coherence between international policies and legislation was one of the main functions of the United Nations.

Politically, it embodies solidarity and thus helps cement the union.

There needed to be greater cohesion in the international community's efforts to address the problem.

But Leterme seems unable to keep his own country together, let alone unite Europe.

European security is hinged on Serbian integration, just as Serbian aspirations hinge on the EU.

Most would suggest that a period of financial retrenchment and slow GDP growth poses a serious threat to the legitimacy of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which is based on economic performance.

The evolution of its internal situation leaves no doubt about the consolidation of Raúl Castro s authority.

Improving the coherence of trade policies and development initiatives remains a critical element in achieving the MDGs.

There should be coherence among international agencies for the purpose of better coordination it should not deepen or strengthen conditionalities.

Still, clashes between the army and the Republican Guard are further eroding the regime s coherence.

Just how cohesive Europe can be is something that we know from the experience of the past few months.

As well as entailing greater operational efficiency, coordination also meant increasing the coherence of development policies and priorities.

The expanded AIMS will be a coherent pan African institution, and its graduates will form a powerful network, working together for peace and progress across the continent.

Europe is backtracking on financial reform issues its policymakers are too preoccupied with holding the eurozone together.

Rather than pondering or devising new borders, regional and external powers need to focus their efforts on holding Syria together.

But Keating s remarks raise a general question about history that goes to the heart of the sense of identity that binds every community.

Today that dominance seems threatened by the East Asian heirs to Confucianism, the ideology par excellence of state cohesion.

Their misgivings have been strengthened by the Peace Process Roadmap to 2015, a document prepared by the Karzai constituted Afghan High Peace Council that sketches several potential concessions to the Taliban and Pakistan, ranging from the Taliban s recognition as a political party to a role for Pakistan in Afghanistan s internal affairs.

Coherence and consistency of relevant policies, laws and regulations need to be improved so as to remove some of the barriers to the implementation of climate change strategies.

(c) The importance, in order to complement national development efforts, of the implementation of the commitment to enhance the coherence and consistency of international monetary, financial and trading systems

Germany remains willing to do the minimum and nothing more to hold the euro together, and the EU s recent steps have merely reinforced German resistance to further concessions.

(c) The importance, in order to complement national development efforts, of the implementation of the commitment to enhance the coherence and consistency of international monetary, financial and trading systems

The challenge now is twofold how to cope with the financial crisis while creating a safer economic future through better governance.

When push comes to shove, they are prepared to do just enough to hold the eurozone together, even if the necessary steps are economically and politically distasteful.

Presentation by the New Rules for Global Finance Coalition on the outcome of multi stakeholder consultations on Systemic issues enhancing the coherence and consistency of the international monetary, financial and trading systems in support of development

Instead of writing off Taiwan's democratic experiment as doomed to instability or worse, the disputed vote will help consolidate and invigorate our democratic order.

The report highlighted several key issues, including benchmarks for measuring progress towards mutually agreed commitments the challenges of improving aid effectiveness and promoting policy coherence.

So, does Germany want to hold together the monetary union and thus preserve the EU, or will it allow dithering and a lack of vision to hasten the erosion of Europe s foundations?

The West has dominated the world ever since the industrial revolution. Today that dominance seems threatened by the East Asian heirs to Confucianism, the ideology par excellence of state cohesion.

Russian society is atomized, with no sense of cohesion, solidarity, or collective drive in any interest group, professional or social, big or small.

The responsibility for securing fundamental coherence had to be shared by donors, beneficiaries and secretariats the Millennium Development Goals and other internationally agreed targets provided the conceptual framework for that coherence.

The EU underscores its support for stronger United Nations wide coherence, starting with the implementation of the measures identified at the summit to promote coherence of policy, operational activities, humanitarian assistance and environmental activities.

Rather than pondering or devising new borders, regional and external powers need to focus their efforts on holding Syria together. The planned Geneva II conference is a necessary first step.

But, even more important, tax avoidance on Romney s scale undermines belief in the system s fundamental fairness, and thus weakens the bonds that hold a society together.

On my travels around the world, particularly to its poorest and most troubled places, I have learned that it is mothers who keep families together indeed, who keep entire societies intact.

The establishment of the Coordination Committee was welcomed by all participants as an important step towards ensuring cohesion, coherence and harmonization in the working methods of special procedures, as well as in avoiding duplication of work by encouraging joint action.

Like many other developing countries, Egypt believed that there was a need to place development at the centre of the international economic agenda and to enhance the coherence between national development strategies on the one hand and international obligations and commitments on the other, with the objective of creating an enabling economic environment for development.

1. Reaffirms that the United Nations has a central role in promoting international cooperation for development and in promoting policy coherence on global development issues, including in the context of globalization and interdependence

Consistent with objectives of the Monterrey Consensus at the regional level, there is a need for regional initiatives and cooperation to increase the coherence and consistency of monetary, financial and trading systems and to reduce the vulnerability in the event of financial crisis.

While it acknowledged that the Supreme Court had thoroughly analysed the facts of the case, it remained the Committee's responsibility to ensure the coherence of the interpretation of the provisions of article 4 of the Convention in the light of its general recommendation XV.

Many of those activities and initiatives designed to reduce the risks of tension and radicalisation or to promote better understanding and greater cohesion have been conveniently brought together under the broad umbrella of intercultural and inter religious dialogue .