Improving the civil administration remains the first priority.

Delegates welcomed the priority given by the new High Commissioner to Africa, as clearly demonstrated by his first field visits.

The first priority was to look after the people involved.

However, there can be no doubt that the new Government and Prime Minister are committed to delivering standards as their first priority.

The first priority, therefore, is to end the occupation and achieve freedom.

First priority has to be accorded to setting up local democratic governments.

(b) To develop, as a first priority, stable civil military relations through a profound reform of the armed forces as an institution subordinate to democratic civilian authority.

4. Decides to continue consideration of the item, as a matter of priority, during the first part of its resumed fifty seventh session

But it's to say, when we don't, it's just simply not our first priority.

First, while emergency relief is the first priority, plans for rehabilitation and reconstruction in the devastated countries have to be developed.

UNDP has classified the Board's main recommendations as high priority and the remainder as either medium or low priority.

Nevertheless, Israel's first priority was, is and will always be the security of its citizens.

priority theme Review of the first United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (1997 2006)

Indeed, that is why the Decalogue set nuclear disarmament in the context of general and complete disarmament as the first priority to be addressed by the international community.

ROD No, but it means that your priority has to be their well being first, I think.

First, we need better strategic priority setting and planning at the end of the conflict, and indeed when it looks as though the conflict is coming to an end.

The third priority has been identified as training.

4. Also decides to revert, as a matter of priority, to the issue of the capital master plan at the first part of its resumed sixtieth session, in March 2006

The first priority for OHCHR was to strengthen its in house capacity to manage complex technical cooperation programmes.

The first priority to which we have to react is still, of course, nuclear disarmament and non proliferation.

Since 2002, resettlement has been established as a priority.

First, progress needs to be intensified, especially in the priority areas related to the rights of the Kosovo Serbs.

First, cooperation among the three committees on issues of common interest within their respective mandates continues to be the priority.

In addressing these issues, the city group should, as a priority

Greater inter agency collaboration in the field as well as at Headquarters was a priority.

In the US, real estate prices remain in free fall, and the banking crisis is still claiming new victims (Bear Stearns, IndyMac, First Heritage Bank, First National Bank of Nevada, First Priority Bank, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, etc.). In the banking world as a whole, expected write offs now considerably exceed the 400 billion mark projected just last spring.

Interpol has designated Public Safety Terrorism (PST) as a priority crime area.

The MSPAS workplan establishes the reduction of maternal mortality as a priority.

He cited community e centres as one priority area for future action.

(a) Senior management needs to unequivocally emphasize self evaluation as a priority

For the first time, the issue of transversality of gender in public policies adopted as a strategy to promote gender equality after the Fourth World Conference on Women, has been clearly and effectively embraced as an objective, a true priority, of the government.

Slovakia came to the summit with the understanding that our first priority was to make progress in achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

Like for several other delegations that spoke before me, the FMCT is for Italy also the first priority at the Conference on Disarmament.

Young organizations recommend that several of the priority concerns be treated as transversal themes in relation to other priority concerns addressed in the Programme of Action, rather than as topics in and of themselves.

There are others, however, who clearly regard reliable statistics as a low priority.

First, however, we should be pleased with the efforts made by African countries to promote peace and security, as well as to develop NEPAD priority programmes and projects in areas such as transport, energy, water, health, education and information technology, environment, agriculture, science and technology, and industrialization, among others.

(a) Heads of State will thus be accorded first priority, followed by Heads of Government vice presidents, crown princes princesses the highest ranking official of the Holy See, in its capacity as observer State, and Palestine, in its capacity as observer ministers and permanent representatives

The Ministry of Justice and the Attorney General's Office, assisted by UNDP, completed the first stage of the Government's priority reform and restructuring process.

Targeted subsidies for high priority public sites, such as schools and health centres, were cited as an option.

Given the large number of issues to address and the short period of time available, it is expected that the committee of the whole would need to address the primary objectives listed above as items of first priority.

In this context, it is heartening to note that the 44th Session of the Commission for Social Development has taken the priority theme as Review of the first United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (1997 2006).

The Secretary General has clearly identified girls' education as an urgent social development priority.

Consequently, the first priority for the Chambers in 1999 was to reduce the number of motions in order to move cases to the trial stage.

Consequently, the first priority for the Chambers in 1999 was to reduce the number of motions in order to move cases to the trial stage.

It makes us believe that we only have one choice. Yet the reality is that we can choose to make climate change our first priority, or we can choose to do a lot more good first.