This would include, at a minimum, reforms of labor rules, pension systems, and anti growth provisions of tax codes. It would also include an aggressive attempt to reduce the sovereign debt overhang that remains a major impediment to growth and continues to threaten some European banks.

Explosion of joy that this verdict had come back this way.

Ms. Arbour (United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights) said that the projected reform of the treaty body system was ambitious, but that without such a reform the accumulated backlog of reports would never be cleared.

There it was for them, a crusade against tyranny...

The Administration stated that since 1995, it had adopted a multifaceted strategy to deal with the backlog, including internal reforms designed to improve output and computerization of the process.

B. Backlog of work

If many were to report, significant existing backlogs would be exacerbated, and major reforms would be needed even more urgently (paras. 48 52).

Clearance of the backlog inventory

Some country level studies that isolated the effects of trade liberalization did, however, find that wage gaps caused by discrimination were increasing.5 Public sector reforms can also generate downward pressures on wages and working conditions and those reforms have a particular impact on lower level staff.5

The Court has distinguished between temporary backlogs and organizationally in built backlogs.

Turning now to Secretariat and management reform, the European Union welcomes the decisions on management reform taken at the summit and intends to pursue their implementation vigorously during this session.

B. Backlog clearance budget

C. Backlog clearance budget

We have also instituted effective reforms of the private sector, and through dialogue the business community is now responding positively to economic and social reforms.

To pursue those positive trends, further structural changes were necessary at the national level, especially in the areas of education, health and justice.

A New Deal for Debt Overhangs?

X. Clearance of the backlog inventory

In addition, during this period, the problem of documentation backlog was solved through better control and management.

Reforming Greek Reform

In support of its land acquisition and distribution activities, the DAR will continue to improve its operating procedures to expedite the resolution and adjudication of agrarian cases through the pooling of lawyers for deployment to areas with huge backlogs

Here, Israel must help in sustaining a positive atmosphere and consolidating efforts for reform.

The conference played a positive role in further advancing democratic reforms.

At a time when ethical issues were being discussed in the context of the reform programme, his delegation hoped that the Commission would be involved closely in that aspect of the reform.

And it's a new cumulative pressure on leaders.

Ms. WANG Ying (China) said that any reform might have negative and positive impacts.

We must capitalize on the current momentum and enthusiasm and act in tandem with what appears to be an environment of tolerance for change on the horizon.

We welcome the active exchange of views that has taken place in recent years on the reform of the First Committee.

Within the Federation, police reform has begun and may bring about positive results.

High pressure builds over India.

These changes are of a positive nature and they will be furthered in the practical life.

Neither the Secretariat nor Member States should attempt to use any scandal involving the United Nations to apply pressure with respect to the proposed reforms, which were intended as a way to improve the Organization, not as a response to a scandal.

Nigeria has followed with great interest and participated actively in the various proposals on the reform of our Organization, the United Nations.

The IMF is actively involved in studying the social consequences of economic reform programmes and the design of appropriate safety nets for older persons adversely affected by reforms.

9. Commends the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women for reducing the backlog of reports, inter alia, through improved methods of work

The reform of the Department for General Assembly and Conference Management has been both revolutionary and evolutionary.

69. UNDP, a pioneer in management and administrative reform, had actively worked to reduce its staff, especially at headquarters, increase accountability, and directly involve its employees in reform through the change management process.

It continued to undermine any democratic reform by severely repressing opposition parties in view of upcoming elections.

The success of the reform will not be measured against our words. It will be measured by whether the renewed United Nations can bring development home to the poor, peace to the warring and justice to the abused.

As noted elsewhere in the present report, the reform processes initiated by the Special Committee in 1991, which brought about a number of changes and improvements in its approach, methods and procedures, continued to be actively pursued in 2005.

Enhancement of criminal justice entails involving other institutions in society.

10. Commends the Committee for reducing the backlog of reports, inter alia, through improved internal methods of work, and notes the efforts of the Committee to continue improving its internal methods of work

Reform of the Department of Public Information had contributed to the process of renewal and reform of the United Nations.

For more than three decades, Indonesian reformists struggled against the crushing weight of an authoritarian regime, until it became clear that our only way out of the Asian crisis was through democratic reform.

But there remains an enormous backlog of deprivation.

On the basis of the mandate given by the summit, Luxembourg actively supports the reform of the Central Emergency Revolving Fund, which should take shape in coming months so that this renovated Fund can become fully operational by the beginning of 2006.