We look forward to an interactive and fruitful debate.

If we neglect our mandate to negotiate on multilateral issues that are ripe for action, if we merely continue to debate, debate and debate, the international community may well tire of us, this institution and this place.

Such open debates would be more effective if the resolutions and decisions adopted by the Council took into account the views raised in those debates by States not members of the Council.

A genuine and frank exchange of views, interactive debates and results oriented approach would be the key to success.

The outcome of the debate on the substantive theme during the policy development session would take the form of agreed conclusions.

The theme of the debate was the follow up to and implementation of the 2005 World Summit Outcome.

6. Mr. Makonga (Democratic Republic of the Congo) said that the fact that the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo was being discussed in other forums should not be a reason for preventing its debate in the General Assembly.

I'd like to dispute that with you.

It felt that the session could serve to begin, if not necessarily conclude, that debate.

I don't approve of them because arguments, of course, are all about contradiction, and they're shaped by the values that I have questions with.

Those seminars served as catalysts for public debate.

I trust we shall have a successful debate.

The quarterly publication Habitat News was transformed into Habitat Debate, which contains discussions on issues relating to shelter and settlements.

This possibility became part of the debate over the Syrian presence in Lebanon and fuelled it further.

The present debate on old versus new threats is, to my mind, a false debate, and the effect has largely been that neither is dealt with.

To ensure that these debates have maximum effect, it would ask all States to play an active and constructive part in them this year.

Accordingly, he said that, in its role at the helm of the European Union, the Netherlands would take the outcomes of the Second Session of the World Urban Forum to the forefront of the international debate.

The general debate was followed by a lively informal debate on the issue of preference erosion, with the participation of a panel of four experts, after a visual illustration by the secretariat of the extent to which LDCs were dependent on trade preferences.

The panellists' presentations were followed by an interactive debate.

(c) To adjourn the debate on the item under discussion

10. Bearing in mind the importance of the general debate in providing useful input for the themes under discussion, the functional commissions should ensure that the debate is focused, adds value and contributes to action oriented outcomes of the session.

Current Debate

The outcome of the debate depended on political and social circumstances and was difficult to predict.

After discussion and debate,

We recognize that other United Nations Members want this too, as is clear from this debate and the various contributions to it.

In order to build national consensus, the draft remains open for debate.

This places a heavy mortgage on the openness of political debate in the country.

The workshop had been a great success with a debate at a high level.

So what if before my Mexican trip I had followed the immigration debate from both sides, the U.S. and the Mexican?

Debate

And for the very first time, the public debate in Germany was dominated for months by education, not tax, not other kinds of issues, but education was the center of the public debate.

(c) To adjourn the debate on the item under discussion

(4) For the closure of the debate on the item under consideration.

ON THE SALE OF CHILDREN, CHILD PROSTITUTION AND CHILD PORNOGRAPHY Part 1. Texts resulting from the debates held by the working group at its third session

Issues for discussion in the general debate

Besides Council members, eight non Council members took part in the debate.

A smaller membership on the Human Rights Council would allow more focused discussion and debate.

Thematic debates

Rule 40

Rule 42

Thematic debate

The constitutional debate

General debate discussion.

More thought should, perhaps, be given to the way in which the discussions and outcomes of these working groups are related to the work of the Sub Commission in plenary so as to ensure that, on the one hand, there is no duplication of the discussions in the working group and those in the Sub Commission and, on the other, that the quality of the debates in the working groups and, in particular, their results are genuinely familiar to and discussed by all the members.

It had succeeded in clustering its agenda and had made its debates more interactive.