Gains for developing countries hinged as much on their own liberalization as on the market opening made by trade partners.

Above all, it concluded that the sustainability of ongoing reform programmes hinged on substantial investment in human and institutional capacity building.

According to the Trade and Development Report 2004, the balance between national welfare and international integration hinged on an appropriate mix of market forces, policy space and collective action.

The EU must make it clear that it is ready to support Serbia and the region as a whole in realizing its European aspirations. European security is hinged on Serbian integration, just as Serbian aspirations hinge on the EU.

Whereas in the Third Committee the responsibilities of Vice Chairmen and Rapporteurs were distributed on the basis of the dates on which the Secretariat received notification of the candidates endorsed by the regional groupings, the practice in the other Main Committees hinged on the principle of rotation.

Whether Europe would avoid a deep depression hinged on whether it dealt properly with these two aspects of the crisis. But whether Europe as a whole avoids lost decades of economic growth still hangs in the balance, and depends on whether southern European governments can rapidly restore competitiveness.

Effective and timely delivery of United Nations assistance through its operational activities hinged squarely on the volume, availability and predictability of resources, and greater efficiency and coordination would not be sufficient to cope with the dual problem of increasing demand and decreasing resources, even though the donors believed that the main thing was to reform the delivery process and the resource mobilization mechanisms.