There was no doubt, for instance, that the respect and promotion of human rights and fundamental freedoms contributed to social progress.

Economic development and improved living conditions in the territories will encourage peace and stability in the region.

Hesitation or indifference with regard to that human tragedy only encouraged the continuation of the crime of ethnic purging.

These developments, in our view, encourage the efforts to establish such zones in other parts of the world.

I believe that the United Nations and the international community encourage and protect democracy, and that Côte d'Ivoire cannot be an exception to that activity.

Reaffirming the principles and outlining future activities, it encourages and facilitates action aiming at enhancing the enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms by all human beings.

General Assembly resolution 48 214 and draft resolution A 49 L.44 encourage the establishment of national structures that would operate jointly with the mechanism to be set up within the African Development Bank.

(i) Many agreed that the informal setting and flexibility of the meetings of the Standing Committees encourages the widest possible participation among States Parties, States not parties, international organizations and non governmental organizations and civil society.

Underlining the fact that tolerance and respect for cultural diversity and universal promotion and protection of human rights, including the right to development, are mutually supportive, and recognizing that tolerance and respect for diversity effectively promote and are supported by, inter alia, the empowerment of women,

Ms. LAVERY (United Kingdom), introducing the draft decision on behalf of the European Union, said that it was based on previous decisions adopted in 1999 and 2001 encouraging Member States voluntarily to renounce their shares of the unencumbered balances of appropriations so that they could be used for technical cooperation activities.