This encourages debate on sensitive issues like honour crimes.

The public debate could address the following issues

General statements exchange of information on participants' implementation activities and debate on issues of general interest to the implementation process.

General statements exchange of information on participants' implementation activities and debate on issues of general interest to the implementation process.

In addition, on 25 February 2005, the Security Council held an open debate on cross cutting issues in West Africa.

The Conference provoked a profound change in the population debate by placing priority on issues of human rights.

Such comparative advantages are related to the promotion of a debate on international economic cooperation policy and emerging development issues.

The debate on Security Council reform has been taking place for over 12 years now, and the issues are widely known.

Morell thus placed himself squarely within one of the two principal schools of thought in the policy debate on Syria (a debate that is articulated almost exclusively in geopolitical terms and ignores humanitarian issues).

This is of course a false debate, since the two issues are inseparably linked.

After many years of debate on its programme of work, the Conference engaged itself, albeit informally, in a substantive discussion of the issues on its agenda.

Hence, our debate on development issues should focus on how to faithfully carry out existing commitments based on shared responsibility and accountability, as agreed in Monterrey and Johannesburg.

Instead, it shows that the United Nations is a relevant, vibrant body for debate on the issues that concern all of us today.

The focus of the Informal Consultative Process on cross cutting and practical oceans issues makes an invaluable contribution to the annual oceans debate.

Without agreeing the terms of the debate, it is difficult to discuss these important issues.

We welcome the Secretary General's report (S 2005 69) and this debate as an opportunity to discuss and make progress on these important issues.

However, it is regrettable that these issues are being approached within the narrow perspective of a subset of the larger debate on counter terrorism.

Over the past 10 years of the international forest policy dialogue process, the debate on a global forest convention has prevented progress on the issues mentioned above and on others.

It decided to continue this debate at its sixty seventh session on the basis, inter alia, of a working paper prepared by the Secretariat, including a compilation of its past concluding observations referring to issues relevant to the debate.

The campaigning by the two sides was more personal than in the first round of the election and sometimes negative, with less debate on issues and more focus on personalities.

This note focuses on selected trade and environment issues that have received considerable attention in the international debate, as well as in UNCTAD's work since UNCTAD XI.

This report focuses on selected trade and environment issues that have received considerable attention in the international debate, as well as in UNCTAD's work since UNCTAD XI.

Indeed, the debate on gender issues is clearly growing in Israel, yet very little of it is visible in practice and gender mainstreaming is almost unheard of 26.

It was originally intended to protect direct and vital great Power interests, not as a tool for disciplining the rest of the membership on the Council or aborting debate on certain issues.

Of course, there remain concerns around the vital issues of waste disposal and proliferation. Again, consensual debate is required.

At present a lively debate is going on these issues, particularly on the Hudood Laws, in the wake of the recommendations of the National Commission on Status of Women that these laws should be repealed.

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.

Dam construction in China has never been open to public debate. China s environmental activists, meanwhile, have focused on the politically safe issues of protecting biodiversity, recycling, and environmental education.

On the contrary, we welcome debate, but we want an honest, realistic and purposeful debate.

We will no doubt return to the issues raised in this debate many times in the months and years ahead.

General debate on all decolonization items

The interactive panels and dialogues would ensure participation of leading experts on the substantive issues and a more dynamic and focused debate on key policy and implementation aspects, based on the exchange of ideas between different stakeholders.

I think that, coming after the summit meeting, this debate was timely in maintaining the momentum on the very important issues of development, not least the issues relating to the African continent and to fighting the scourge of malaria and other communicable diseases.

The issues involved are complex but the outcome will be critical to the broader political debate on enabling the United Nations system to respond effectively to the demands of our times.

In the aftermath of the French and Dutch referenda, the European Commission and the European Parliament have sketched plans for a Europe wide debate on these issues. But such a debate also demands an organizational framework to engage European civil society, national parliaments, and pan European mass media.

For each of the themes of the seminar, OHCHR will submit papers outlining some of the issues relevant to the discussions and take stock of the state of the debate on each of the issues, including the conclusions reached thus far and remaining challenges.

Nigeria took the view that the thirteenth session of the Commission should not serve as a pretext for reopening the debate on issues that had not been the subject of intergovernmental consensus.

Mr. Aliyev (Azerbaijan) My delegation appreciates the opportunity to participate in this joint debate and to share its views on issues related to the promotion of development and durable peace in Africa.

(c) In order to make the debate interactive, the President will request the Director to respond, from time to time, as appropriate, to observations and suggestions made by delegations during the debate and will subsequently invite comments from the floor, either on the Director's response or on the issues raised in the statements of respective delegations

(c) To continue to intensify United Nations interaction with the public, principally non governmental organizations and research institutes, to help further an informed debate on topical issues of arms limitation, disarmament and security

(c) To continue to intensify United Nations interaction with the public, principally non governmental organizations and research institutes, to help further an informed debate on topical issues of arms limitation, disarmament and security

(c) To continue to intensify United Nations interaction with the public, principally non governmental organizations and research institutes, to help further an informed debate on topical issues of arms limitation, disarmament and security

We would appreciate it if the report could underscore that the Conference held a constructive and vigorous thematic debate on the core issues of our agenda, with the active participation of many delegations.

It provides a forum for both governmental and non governmental organizations to meet, discuss and debate common issues related to youth development programmes.

Issues relating to race and ethnicity are also included in this list of topics, which is the starting point to a national debate.