It's a huge opportunity for transformational development.

A huge opportunity, unleashing of new potential for innovation, for development.

Slum upgrading provides a unique opportunity for attaining the Millennium Development Goals.

The DPI Conference provides the opportunity for unprecedented networking and partnership development.

Both China and Russia are taking each other's development as an important opportunity

Only social and economic development will provide us an opportunity to realize sovereign equality.

SAICM presents an opportunity to promote the better integration of chemical safety into national development planning.

There is a huge window of opportunity for private sector led development in Africa. But taking advantage of this opportunity requires a new approach to private financing of Africa s development, in which Africa is the lead investor in its own economic renaissance.

Infrastructure development provides not only the foundation for technological activities, but also the opportunity for technological learning.

Mr. Kuroda (Asian Development Bank) We stand today at a crossroads of great opportunity and great uncertainty.

Along with outward development and increase of opportunity, there should be inward development and deepening of our heart connections as well as our outward connections.

This summit gives us an opportunity to review progress and reaffirm our commitment to the Millennium Development Goals.

The development of national implementation plans (NIPs) on POPs, provide the opportunity for Parties to prioritize capacity needs.

It actually reflects changes in the brain that provide an excellent opportunity for education and social development. Thank you.

President Yudhoyono We have the opportunity today to consider the problem of lack of resources, especially financial resources, for development.

Business development is central it is the key to opening the door of opportunity for employment and the ability to prosper.

The triennial comprehensive policy review provided Member States with the opportunity to ensure a coherent and coordinated United Nations development system.

Also, the campaigns provide an opportunity for young women and men, particularly those at risk, to participate in community centred development.

T his is a moment of opportunity for making progress in Africa's development for which NEPAD is the main policy framework. The central challenge is to grasp the opportunity and maintain the momentum (A 60 178, para.

Fair and balanced globalization has provided many with an opportunity to progress towards greater development, and each and every country must shoulder its responsibility for accomplishing its own development agenda.

Mr. Kaberuka (African Development Bank) I am honoured to have this opportunity to address the General Assembly in the name of the African Development Bank, whose presidency I assumed this month.

The Conference offered an opportunity to continue consideration of the development of a mechanism to facilitate and coordinate implementation of the Convention.

Furthermore, the prevalence of peace creates an opportunity for a turning point, an opportunity that can be seized thought capital intensive programmes for the social and economic infrastructure needed to achieve the Millennium Development Goals and to sustain peace.

This is an opportunity! Energy needs it's an opportunity.

78. Encourages development agencies of the United Nations system to seek to maximize the opportunity to address development challenges on a regional or subregional basis, where appropriate, recognizing the important contribution of regional cooperation to national and regional development

This will represent a unique opportunity to highlight the contribution that sustainable forest management can make to achieving the internationally agreed development goals.

The September summit will first and foremost be an opportunity to reinvigorate the implementation of the Millennium Declaration, with development issues at its core.

The 10 year review of the Copenhagen Summit by the Commission for Social Development had provided an opportunity to assess the level of implementation.

The 10 year review of the Barbados Programme of Action provided us with an opportunity to look back at our efforts towards the sustainable development of our countries with the support of our development partners.

The Gulf Cooperation Council countries witnessed record growth rates offering them an opportunity to be the engine of economic growth that fosters region wide development.

The Permanent Mission of Spain avails itself of this opportunity to renew to the United Nations Industrial Development Organization the assurances of its highest consideration.

As the GEF land degradation executing agency linked to the GM, IFAD has the opportunity to match land degradation to poverty reduction and development concerns.

And in talking about financing for development, I should like to take the opportunity to welcome the excellent initiative of Presidents Chirac and Lula da Silva, who have proposed innovative machinery for financing international development assistance.

The international community's efforts on the Millennium Development Goals provided an opportunity to expand strategies, apply good practices more broadly and leverage change in women's lives.

The development of decent work agendas for indigenous peoples offers an opportunity for ILO constituents (workers' and employers' organizations) to work in partnership with indigenous peoples.

It is an opportunity because national development goals in these countries demand the expansion of education to provide the knowledge and skills to meet national goals.

The high level dialogue on international migration and development would provide an opportunity for the international community to examine that matter thoroughly in all its aspects.

The Forum on Industrial Development, Trade and Poverty Alleviation through South South Cooperation was a novel opportunity for discussing industrial development and international cooperation and exploring areas of which sufficient use had not been made to date.

Crisis equals opportunity.

Education and Opportunity

The opportunity to articulate the role of forests in broader development agendas, by directly addressing themes set out in the Council agenda, as is the case this year, may well prove to be a positive one for the Forum and an opportunity worth having in the future.

Equality. No individual and no nation must be denied the opportunity to benefit from development. The equal rights and opportunities of women and men must be assured.

The regional level offers an opportunity to exchange national experiences on the necessary interrelated policy issues which are of crucial importance for achieving the Millennium Development Goals.

Through such strategic linkups, youth leaders of participating youth organizations have the opportunity to share best practices in areas of youth sector development with their peers overseas.

As a core principle of free, prior and informed consent, all sides in a FPIC process must have equal opportunity to debate any proposed agreement development project.