Thematic debates

Thematic debates and resolutions

Rule 7 Debates and publicity concerning the seminar

Our thematic debates have been more interactive and more interesting.

The conclusions of those debates are also reflected in the declaration.

Since that time, peacebuilding has become increasingly prominent in our debates.

It is time to set aside debates on so called State terrorism .

The momentum of debates around the world was considered an encouraging prospect.

Debates are being organised between young people at various Regional Educational Centres.

Several discussants questioned the format of and follow up to thematic debates.

Tatoeba Where debates are hotter than two rabbits making babies in a sock!

Some felt that such debates tended to be insufficiently focused and too abstract.

It had succeeded in clustering its agenda and had made its debates more interactive.

The Council held 11 public meetings including two open debates and eight informal consultations.

This disagreement has weighed heavily on recent debates over the opportunities and challenges of globalization.

Greece fully supports the open debates of the Council on the activities of the CTC.

Encourages the holding of interactive debates with a view to contributing to intergovernmental decision making

The commentators echoed the concern about too many repetitious and formal statements in Council debates.

In the debates planned for the coming days, my delegation intends to make additional comments.

We have raised those problems in this forum a number of times during earlier debates.

Taking into account the debates on the question of Antarctica held since its thirty eighth session,

The report was considered during the debates of the General Assembly at its fifty ninth session.

Taking into account the debates on the question of Antarctica held since its thirty eighth session,

There should be fewer long debates with prepared statements, and more interactive and stimulating panel discussions.

In the world of the Middle East at the moment, the debates are, as you know, shrill.

(b) To present UNIDO's vision and activities in policy debates particularly relevant to economic and social development

The debates raised certain basic questions and made recommendations regarding the subjects discussed at each round table.

Concern was expressed, however, about the proliferation of thematic debates and the breadth of issues they addressed.

I hope that, throughout our debates at this session, the momentum for change will continue to build.

In fact, debates about the use of religious terms lend credibility to fundamentalist efforts to apply these ideas to conditions in the modern world. Such debates concede that these religious concepts are generally valid, even when, as in the fundamentalists case, they simply do not apply.

The political climate in the U.S. at the time was tense, and there were debates going on about immigration.

After the many debates on this issue, my country believes that the time has come for us to act.

3. The General Assembly will consider convening more interactive debates. At the beginning of each session, the General Committee, following recommendations from the President of the General Assembly, shall recommend to the Assembly a programme of, and format for, interactive debates during that session on items on its agenda.

Ugly debates about religion and science usually seem to be confined to the United States. In recent months, however, such debates have begun to spread first to Europe and then around the world. Science, it seems, is drifting into political dangers it has not faced since before the Enlightenment.

One thing the world needs, one thing this country desperately needs is a better way of conducting our political debates.

Our debates are unfolding against a backdrop of escalating oil prices, whose worst fallout we may have yet to see.

The publication of the HDR is an important contribution to generating a demand for better data to influence policy debates.

It could also help address the issue of reporting fatigue, which has been raised for some time in our debates.

Political activities including debates among the candidates for the elections to be held in 2007 have remained peaceful so far.

In the ensuing discussion, considerable attention was devoted to the place of thematic debates in the work of the Council.

Throughout the Conference the Union displayed flexibility and contributed in a constructive manner to all the formal and informal debates.

At the same time, a strengthened economic and social security council would enable the UN to shape more effectively debates about reforming the global economic and financial system. Today, by contrast, such debates are too often centered at the IMF, where the financial interests of the advanced industrial countries predominate.

At its sixty fifth session, the Committee decided to hold general debates at its future sessions on various issues of interest.

In those debates, Argentina and Honduras, which were members of the Council at the time, were filled with optimism and hope.

We take this opportunity to thank the secretariat for the timely and very useful circulation of the records of those debates.