Official membership numbers are not available.

We are also cautious about new classifications of membership.

I've been nominated for membership in the National Geographic Society.

Geographical Distribution of the Membership This is not a membership organization.

That is one of the basic requirements for membership of the Organization.

In the same vein, we have opposed any expansion of the permanent membership.

Therefore, it is not reasonable to talk about its qualification for permanent membership.

84. New applications for membership in the Committee were then considered.

The chief criterion for regular Council membership would be membership of the United Nations.

They pay reduced membership fees, but can follow the development of standards.

These should be developed and adopted before nominating any country for permanent membership.

The borough that gave us baggy pants and funky fresh beats is becoming home to the organic ones.

We have on several occasions expressed our strong support for Japan's candidacy for permanent membership.

Also there has been no change in area of activity or geographical distribution of the membership.

Concrete results of membership of the United Nations Development Group are starting to show.

Lithuania has long supported the candidacies of Germany and Japan as permanent members of the Security Council.

All of this is quite understandable, since the main attribute of permanent membership is the veto.

And this metaphor of membership in the greater human family is the way that children also describe the money that they invest in these sacrificial buffaloes that are thought to carry people's soul from here to the afterlife, and children will explain that they will invest the money in this because they want to repay their parents the debt for all of the years their parents spent investing and caring for them.

We are of the view that there should be an expansion of both the permanent and the non permanent membership of the Council.

Making the Council more relevant to today apos s membership and protecting its integrity, authority and effectiveness are surely priorities.

Thirdly, guided by the criteria just noted, we enthusiastically endorse Japan and Germany for permanent membership.

Recently, new claims have emerged for recognizing another group and making it eligible for membership in the Authoritative Council.

We anticipate that other countries will qualify for permanent or semi permanent membership, and we have proposed criteria to that end.

As is well known, our Republic is a candidate for non permanent membership in the Council in 1994 1995.

The first welcomes the recommendations and additional statement of the Special Coordinator for membership designated by the Conference on Disarmament itself.

The Czech experience shows that implementing all of the European Union s norms so as to be ready to qualify for membership takes some time.

Criticism of our proposal so far has failed to realistically address the core issue of permanent membership.

(a) Consideration should be given to the formulation of guidelines or criteria for membership the issue of term limits

This year a number of countries have described Brazil as meeting the requirements for permanent membership in the framework of these reforms.

The Council will become more effective when it is perceived by the international community as being more equitably representative of the general membership, and thus more authoritative in its decisions.

With a slowdown in accession negotiations, Turkish politicians will have less incentive to continue the reforms necessary for membership.

During 2003, CMS initiated and moderated two programs for the monthly General Membership Meetings of the NGO Committee of the Family.

Speaking as the representative of Thailand, she informed members of the Committee that her delegation had applied for membership of the Committee on Information.

Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) should apply for membership in the United Nations and that it shall not participate in the work of the General Assembly,

(j) Great interest was also expressed in the methods used by other international organizations to gauge the geographical representation of their membership.

Since last year apos s debate on this issue, some countries have been singled out as qualifying for additional permanent membership on the Security Council.

The discussion will thus appear unnecessary and wasteful if the only criterion for membership remains the economic wealth of aspirant States.

Achieving this is possible only if we are completely clear about the future membership of the five regional groups in the General Assembly.

It was also in this context that Poland entered into the association agreement with the European Union, and it is in this context that Poland is actively preparing for membership.

Blue collar yacht club, where you can join the yacht club, but you've got to work in the boat yard, as sort of condition of membership.

Mr. BHAGWATI asked about the membership of the Judicial Service Commission, who appointed its members, and what qualifications candidates for membership must have.

The Security Council must be reformed to make it more inclusive and more representative of the current make up of the United Nations.

Equitable representation goes beyond the equitable geographical representation mentioned as a criterion for non permanent membership in Article 23 of the Charter.

A number of countries have been mentioned, discussed and advocated as qualifying for permanent membership in the Council in terms of the new international realities.

There are shades of difference on the numbers for the total membership, but consensus does seem to be emerging around five or six new members.