This has been a strong priority for women workers.

Here, highest priority must be given to the special needs of children.

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

Elections are a top priority but not a panacea.

So why not get started and make it a priority now?

Addressing and eliminating violence against women must remain a high priority.

As I indicated in the beginning of my statement, the Rio Group countries attach very high priority to our youth.

He also hailed the work of UNITAR in preventive diplomacy. The Institute's expanded number of programmes addressed issues of significant priority to developing countries.

Here, of course, the Middle East and North Africa should be of paramount concern.

Secondly, we really must make counter terrorism the top priority it is not enough to pay lip service to it.

Maintaining those socio economic achievements was a top priority for the people of the Cayman Islands.

No surprise, then, that regional stability has emerged as a high priority for Europeans.

In Asia, especially, filling the vacuum with alternative financing mechanisms has become a high priority.

This year, we got an answer a new Five Year Plan that makes environmental protection a priority.

But preventing the spillover into Xinjiang of Taliban inspired religious extremism remains a high priority as well.

With countries headed toward growth at different speeds, global strategy must continue to be a priority.

Microsoft founder Bill Gates has suggested that Internet access is not a high priority for the poorest countries.

While all accepted recommendations of the Board will be implemented in a timely manner, the main recommendations will be considered of the highest priority.

For Israel, security is the top priority for Palestinians, what matters most is an end to Israeli occupation.

For the US, a concomitant problem is that Secretary of State John Kerry has made peace between Israel and Palestine a high priority.

Over the last decade, improving governance and fighting corruption has been seen as a high priority by governments, civil society, the private sector, and the international community.

There are as many opinions about what should be the top priority for funders as there are options. We spoke with people living with HIV across Africa who have starkly different perspectives.

China s rise is a fact the enduring peacefulness of that rise must be a priority for China, its neighbors, the West, and, most importantly, the US.

(b) International recognition that the adoption of the draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is a top priority of the United Nations agencies, Member States and indigenous peoples.

We must continue working in concert towards the realization of global peace, assigning highest priority to those conflict situations that pose the greatest threat to the peace of the whole world.

For example, fighting the Congress s proposed nationwide ban on driver s licenses for undocumented immigrants could be a high priority while negotiating new trade agreements with the US.

since security in Europe is linked to security in the Mediterranean, giving top priority to implementation of the nuclear non proliferation regime in that region

To ensure the non proliferation of chemical weapons, we believe that the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in The Hague needs to make the universality of the Convention a high priority.

Sri Lanka accorded high priority to the implementation of Agenda 21 and the Millennium Development Goals, including target 7 on environmental sustainability.

Today's Opportunities, Tomorrow's Promise A Strategic Plan for the Government of Alberta, was released in 2003 and places a high priority on the prevention of family violence and bullying.

Malaysia also believes that the total elimination of nuclear weapons is of the highest priority and the only absolute guarantee against the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons.

By its decision 1 COP.6, the COP requested the GM together with the members of its Facilitation Committee to promote resource mobilization for NAP implementation as a matter of the highest priority.

For developed countries, increasing resilience and flexibility over time by building public assets should be a long term priority.

The observer for Bolivia highlighted that it was her Government's view that the adoption of a binding international legal instrument for the protection of the traditional knowledge of indigenous peoples was of the utmost priority.

Some agencies regard statistical development as a high priority and have devoted considerable effort to their development, with genuine interest in progress by their executives.

Ensuring the reliability of inventory data to be used in the inventory review process under the Convention and under Article 8 of the Kyoto Protocol is a high priority.

Defining and coordinating national level and workplace level actions to implement sustainable development has been a top priority for trade unions since the World Summit on Sustainable Development.

If 2005 has taught the world anything, it is that disaster mitigation and emergency preparedness must be an even higher priority and must be integrated into development planning.

In order to respond more effectively to the serious common concern regarding the scope of the crime and its rapid growth, Indonesia appealed to all Member States to give the highest priority to drug control issues.

Identified by the Financial Services Action Plan (FSAP) as a top priority, the European Parliament and Council Directive 2001 24 EC on the reorganization and winding up of credit institutions fills a major gap in the financial services legislation.

This should be a top priority for governments and a goal embraced by citizens everywhere.

I urge the Government, SLM and JEM, with the support of SPLM, to resume negotiations in Abuja as a matter of the highest priority so that they can conclude a lasting agreement.

Only a patient, creative, and consistent engagement strategy will mitigate fears on both sides. China s rise is a fact the enduring peacefulness of that rise must be a priority for China, its neighbors, the West, and, most importantly, the US.

The Government of Malaysia attached high priority to the fight against corruption and had adopted a two pronged strategy which provided for punitive action, including harsh penalties for persons convicted of crimes of corruption, and preventive measures designed to encourage the moral and ethical values of society to counter corrupt practices.

In the area of bank and cash management, which is the other matter of emphasis by the Board (para. 4 (b)), UNDP management will give top priority to ensuring the performance of monthly bank reconciliations at the country offices and headquarters in the new biennium.