Paper submitted by the Intergovernmental Forum on Chemical Safety on the strategic approach to international chemicals management addressing the widening gap

The gap between the rich and the poor is widening.

We are determined to cross the divide and not to play into the hands of those who seek to widen the divide.

Views on how to bring about an expansion continued to differ.

The agenda of cooperation between the United Nations and regional partners is becoming ever more multifaceted and larger in scope.

We face together the growing shortage of water and the ever expanding desert.

How can the benefits be maximized and the costs be minimized?

Conscious that there exists a connection between the growing problem of racism and racial discrimination and global social and economic developments, including the widening gap between rich and poor within and between countries,

The growing gap between rich and poor is fuelling inequality.

China s Expanding Core

At present, after more than half a year's repeated discussions, differences surrounding the enlargement formula of the Security Council seem to be widening rather than narrowing.

The gains made in water supply coverage are increasingly threatened.

Enhancing developing country participation in the growing market for environmental services

While there is, in our view, broad consensus regarding the need for Security Council expansion, major differences exist regarding what kind of expansion should occur.

4. The growing range and complexity of demands for United Nations system operational activities make it increasingly necessary for the United Nations development system to deepen its relations not only with Governments but also with society at large.

This proposal represents the interests of the continent, preserves its unity and avoids fragmentation and division as a result of competition.

They are in increasingly high demand, and we hope to expand our capacity to offer them.

Enormous disagreements.

1. Mexico notes with satisfaction that States are becoming increasingly willing to resort to judicial mechanisms to resolve their differences.

Revitalizing redistribution through optimally progressive taxation or voluntary transfer will increasingly be an imperative of expanded social protection schemes.

At the same time, paradoxically, explosive HIV growth continues in most regions of the world, and the prevention gap is widening between rich and poor countries.

The expanding range of space applications in the technical, civil and military fields has a potential for conflicting interests about which there is a growing inevitability.

Increasing globalization in production and consumption has placed greater demand on transportation infrastructures.

But the lesson that most observers draw from these increasingly high profile disputes that, even in financial regulation, power politics trumps the common good is incomplete. After all, regulatory disparities are not just a product of divergent national interests how effectively diplomacy is practiced and coordinated can play a role as well.

The Great Policy Divergence

In that regard, in view of the growing tasks assigned to UNDCP, the methods used for funding it should reviewed.

Fiscal analysis has already greatly benefited from increased availability of statistics.

Will citizens take advantage of the expanding availability of information and networking or will they be increasingly isolated from global trends?

She spoke of the strained relations between the Cayman Islands and the administering Power and of the ever increasing disparity of their interests.

178. There is a large potential benefit to be derived from increased participation.

The success of those negotiations indicate that, in spite of our differences and individual sovereign interests, Member States recognize that we have more things in common than things that divide us and that, for a better world, common interests must enjoy precedence over individual interests.

McCord is right, Davis, and personal differences have nothing to do with it.

At a time when partisan divisions are undermining America s economic leadership, China s growing influence in Southeast Asia should raise a question If push comes to shove in the South China Sea, will the US find allies in its corner, or will they just be holding Uncle Sam s coat?

At the same time, the widening digital divide between developed and developing countries must not be overlooked.

Forests should be managed to optimize both their local benefits and higher level public goods.

The secretariat has the honour to circulate, in the annex to the present note, the IFCS paper on addressing the widening gap, for consideration by the Committee at its third session.

Natural disasters have become magnified not only by increases in population, but by the growing dangers of environmental pollution.

I consider the constantly increasing gap in income distribution between the North and the South, as well as the arms race, to be the greatest obstacles to the well being and prosperity of nations.

46. Such problems required immediate follow up, taking into account the fact that the growth of mass migration was inseparable from the widening development gap between the North and the South.

Disagreements over the enlargement of the Security Council must not prevent or slow down the changes that are now necessary and possible.

It also aims to enhance awareness of the need to maximize the development effects of incentives and avoid excessive competition.

Divisions in some areas were too deep to be bridged, and some are serious.

Europe needs more solidarity not only to overcome the crisis and complete the eurozone integration process, but also to bridge the widening divide between Europe and its peoples. I look forward to 2013 as a year of progress on our national and European agendas alike.

Second, Franco German cooperation has shown itself all the more indispensable in the enlarged Union. Despite all the differences that might exist between the two countries differences that are likely to grow there is no alternative to their alliance.

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