The report makes a significant attempt to address an important issue.

Therefore, the use of appropriate technology is an important issue for many Parties.

The Legal Counsel stated that States viewed the regular process as an important issue.

This issue of authorized persons has an important parallel in the Vienna treaty regime.

In Africa, the integration of the NAPs into macro economic planning is an important issue.

The Seminar was an important step toward integrating the issue of gender into educational policies.

Strengthening alternative development as an important drug control strategy and establishing alternative development as a cross cutting issue

And it's an important issue because it means that we have to, as a society, think about what we value.

Your presence indicates how important this issue is.

Taking into consideration the above arguments, the General Secretariat for Gender Equality regards the issue of gender equality not as a women's issue but as an issue that is important to and concerns society as a whole.

Human trafficking is an important issue that has its roots in poverty, insecurity of food and livelihoods development inequalities and migration.

This important issue has been discussed for too long.

Patricia Lewis considered the annual review undertaken by the Space Security Index' as an important element of international work on the issue.

Funding arrangements are an important part of the issue, but we should put this matter in the perspective of the overall picture.

Iran was a transit country between Central Asia and the Persian Gulf, and transport was therefore an important issue for the country.

We thank the sponsors for elaborating a draft resolution that addresses such an important and timely issue in the field of international security.

This issue is the most important item on our agenda.

Governance is an important issue that needs to be addressed at the national, regional and global levels in pursuing the sound management of chemicals

Mr. Burman (United States of America) said that the representative of the Russian Federation had raised an important issue that called for further deliberation.

Evidently, it was a difficult issue, but it was extremely important.

The school subject at issue has important cultural and educational objectives.

The view was reiterated that the issue of ex parte interim measures, which the Commission agreed remained an important issue and a point of controversy, should not delay progress on the revision of the Model Law.

In that connection, those who advocate the swift adoption of concrete decisions on so important an issue as Security Council reform have a serious responsibility.

On the important issue of implementation, the Committee should provide clear guidance.

The Committee should therefore address that important issue during the current session.

We view the expanded CERF as one important tool to achieve more timely and equitable humanitarian funding, an issue at the heart of good humanitarian donorship.

Although the question of third States affected by sanctions was very important, the issue of target countries was no less important.

So, what doesn't work, in terms of getting your issue to be important?

It is important to recognize the context in which this issue matters most.

Since forest benefits are often of regional and sometimes truly global in nature, a more equal distribution of costs and benefits is an important issue to address.

The proposal to create a Peacebuilding Commission is an important issue that should be thoroughly debated by all Member States within the framework of the General Assembly.

It was an extremely important human rights issue for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea to safeguard its national sovereignty and to protect its people from an armed invasion by the United States.

Undoubtedly, the issue of their reconstruction will have an important place on the agendas of those countries, of the African Union and of the rest of the world.

That's important and it's an important shift.

The green agenda is probably the most important agenda and issue of the day.

Though evidently important, this issue has not received the attention and support it deserves.

We appreciate its participation in the debate and its guidance on this important issue.

National security an urgent issue

Gender is not an issue.

The high level dialogue on the subject to be held by the General Assembly in 2006 will provide an important opportunity to tackle the hard questions on this issue.

The adoption of that resolution sent a clear message from the international community to Iran, and Japan values it as an important step towards resolving the issue through negotiations.

Another important issue before the Special Committee was assistance to third States affected by sanctions.

The most important nuclear safety issue for CARICOM remained the transboundary movement of radioactive material.

Her delegation welcomed a free and interactive exchange of views on that critically important issue.

Together, these initiatives are promoting a national dialogue on this important issue for Australian women.