If ministers are presented with a large number of decisions to make, the ministerial meeting will fail.

More important decisions require an even larger consensus, involving up to 3,000 people.

Several of these resolutions provided specific recommendations for action on gender equality or the advancement of women.

PARIS A series of decisions taken over the last few years in Europe have alarmed me.

The President praised the spirit of cooperation and compromise that characterized the session, which had resulted in a number of significant decisions.

The discontent within Germany with the cumulative impact of these decisions has been expressed publicly by some of the country s most trusted public representatives.

Moreover, the protracted negotiations on the draft decision had delayed the adoption of a number of important draft resolutions.

Since 1980, the foreign relations of Iraq were influenced by a number of controversial decisions by the Saddam Hussein administration.

(b) An increase in the number of legislative decisions based on UNCITRAL texts.

Pre appeal procedures were completed during the reporting period, with a substantial number of pre appeal decisions being issued by the Appeals Chamber.

We agree with the Secretary General that the summit should result in a number of far reaching and courageous decisions.

A number of Parties reported the lack of comprehensive local data and country specific information to support assessment and studies needed for decision making.

The General Assembly addressed the gender perspectives of human rights in a number of substantive resolutions on thematic issues, some of which included specific recommendations for action.

That is a step forward in reducing what we have long regarded as the excessive number of draft resolutions on the Middle East.

The current situation is a result of a number of provisional resolutions, rules and regulations that were adopted as taken from the previous system or enacted during the war.

Mr. Jenie (Indonesia) I have the honour to introduce a number of draft resolutions and draft decisions on behalf of the Non Aligned Movement (NAM) for consideration by the Committee.

It is to be noted that in 2004 the resolution received the greatest number of votes in favour in 10 years.

What makes that exercise noteworthy is the fact that it takes into account the situations in as many countries as possible so that the resolutions can be implemented throughout the world.

Given the non implementation of a number of United Nations resolutions, in particular those related to regional conflicts, we attach great importance to the establishment of a mechanism that would provide for monitoring and implementation of those resolutions.

The number of persons belonging to minorities is by definition too small for them to determine the outcome of decisions in majoritarian democracy.

The current revisions, which are applied by countries on a voluntary basis, take into account the situation in as many countries as possible in order to make the resolutions applicable throughout the world.

As the number of women among leaders of political parties is small, women also have limited possibilities to participate in making important decisions, such as drawing up of lists of candidates for elections.

The recent increase in the number of female legislators has provided women an avenue at the highest political level to have a voice in decision making and priority setting.

Although the General Assembly had adopted numerous resolutions on the subject and the Secretary General's suggestions had been implemented, the number of victims of humanitarian situations and armed conflict continued to increase.

There is still small number of women representatives in B H authorities, ender some decisions, programmes, strategies and legal regulations are different form the expected ones non gender sensitive.

Too many decisions had to be made.

The Committee invites the State party to include in its next periodic report data on the number of complaints against members of the police concerning discriminatory treatment as well as on the decisions adopted.

Resolutions

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The Committee shall endeavour to reach its decisions by consensus.

Good decisions come from careful consideration.

The question of the merger of draft resolutions or changing free standing draft resolutions into omnibus texts should be left to the sponsors.

As a transitionary measure, during its 2005 session, the Special Committee started to issue a number of its resolutions in the format of the General Assembly, in line with the established practice of other subsidiary bodies of the Assembly.

Those concerns were reflected in a number of draft resolutions, including those on the conclusion of a convention prohibiting the use of nuclear weapons, on reducing nuclear danger, on renewed determination towards the total elimination of nuclear weapons and on nuclear disarmament.

His delegation fully supported the proposal by the Observer for Palestine and the United States of America to rationalize the work of the Committee and reduce the number of resolutions on the agenda item and was prepared to participate in that work.

These resolutions, and others passed since then such as 1452 (2002), 1455 (2003) and 1526 (2004) form the foundation of the current Al Qaida and Taliban sanctions regime.

Decisions and recommendations

Resolutions (continued)

C. Resolutions and documentation

Organizational and procedural decisions

Decision making

In the distribution sector, Chinese SMEs found it difficult to develop their business in the face of competition from big foreign competitors (e.g. China's biggest retailer had a sales volume of less than 1 per cent of that of the biggest retailer from the United States).

In a similar way, action entries can simply represent whether an action is to be performed (check the actions to perform), or in more advanced decision tables, the sequencing of actions to perform (number the actions to perform).

We will not always agree on all proposals, and we will continue to judge proposals on their merits.

We will now take decisions on draft resolutions I to III.