Achieving permanence with accountability

Continuity was not important in those days.

There should be some continuity over time in the composition of the Committee.

Even today Russia shares many continuities of political culture and social structure with its tsarist and Soviet past.

Accordingly, I think that work in close coordination with the next President can introduce that systematic factor of continuity in practice.

Mr. Meyer (Canada) introduced the working paper contained in document NPT CONF.2005 WP.39 on achieving permanence with accountability.

It deals with concepts such as continuity, limits, differentiation and integration, thus providing a rigorous foundation for the calculus of infinitesimals introduced by Newton and Leibniz in the 17th century.

The origin of the signal varies, depending on the continuity and medium.

It provided continuity throughout the dark period of the cold war.

But you lose that contract for a major brand name, that's the difference between staying in business or going bankrupt.

Achieving permanence with accountability, the concept that underlay the indefinite extension of the treaty, is also a key goal.

The aim of cooperation must be the formulation of medium and long term industrial development policies, with a view to ensuring their continuity through changes of government.

For example, Japanese elites tend to favor continuity over change.

Also of vital importance was the need to ensure continuity.

You also mentioned the question of the need for greater continuity in the action of the presidency.

France wants the illusion of change, but is continuity what she truly desires?.

More importantly, continuity on the political front is likely to extend to strategy and policy.

It is set in the present day and introduces different main characters, therefore belonging to a different continuity.

In the interests of continuity, all the professional staff hired by the previous administration had been retained.

Schools of various kinds and types and consisting of three stages_primary, general basic and general secondary, each of which can function independently while maintaining continuity_are being created to provide general secondary education.

In many other areas, continuity can be expected to trump change.

But that continuity is more reminiscent of the zastoi, or stagnation, of the Brezhnev era.

Finally, throughout the transition, MINUGUA worked closely with the country team to ensure continuity on key technical assistance projects, especially on land issues, citizen participation, public security and the justice sector.

STANFORD Political leadership transitions typically signal either a change in direction or continuity.

The system allowed continuity, rotation of topics and the movement of some items in and out of the agenda.

For instance, the Bureau elected on the first day could keep several members from the current Bureau so as to ensure continuity.

Even milestone documents such as the Single European Act and the Treaties of Maastricht, Amsterdam, and Nice, were never envisaged as achieving the kind of permanence (or even semi permanence) that we normally associate with a constitution.

In paragraph 63 of the report, UNOPS agreed with the Board's recommendation that it (a) monitor and track all variables affecting the going concern assumptions and (b) agree with the Executive Board on a time frame for the rebuilding of the operational reserve.

In the later stages of the revision process, it became increasingly clear that continuity was an important element for many countries.

The loss of continuity in political parties, parliamentary procedures, and judicial processes encourages short term calculation and spawns illiberal practices.

Water supply service quality has many dimensions continuity water quality pressure and the degree of responsiveness of service providers to customer complaints.

While the Kemalists sought a radical break with the Ottoman past, there were important elements of continuity between their Westernization efforts and those undertaken in the late Ottoman period.

A third term would provide continuity during the first period in office of the newly elected Director General.

(b) To keep in mind the need to ensure universality, a balanced representation, as well as the benefits of continuity and the importance of renewal

In view of the recent change of Government, she wished to know how the Bureau had achieved continuity in terms of, inter alia, human resources and leadership during the transition period.

Why favor change, when continuity works so well for you?

One thing to be said for monarchs is that they provide people with a sense of continuity, which can be useful in times of crisis or radical change.

Viet Nam, Uruguay and Qatar mentioned the lack of continuity in gender mainstreaming capacity and commitment related to staff turnover or change of government.

Her Government had shown continuity and good will, and had taken specific measures to fulfil Croatia's commitments regarding the return process.

He urged the Organization to resume the sterling work initiated by its June 2004 mission to Lesotho with a further mission to ensure continuity.

In the current circumstances, which are difficult for the Conference's credibility, it is vital to confer greater continuity on the rationality and impetus of the President in the search for a consensus solution.

(d) The Secretary General to ensure that a senior gender adviser within the newly established Gender Unit of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan be appointed immediately and with due regard for the need for continuity in this task.

5. Welcomes also the decisions taken so far by the Secretary General to ensure continuity in the management of the Institute and to consider the proper grade for the post of Executive Director

Members of the Committee shall serve for a period of two years, renewable once, with the renewal period phased so as to provide continuity.

Finally, the FMLC calls for the establishment of a permanent G 20 secretariat to improve continuity and coordination across G 20 presidencies. As it stands, political priorities are constantly in flux, with individual dossiers losing their centrality, and even vanishing, from year to year.