An initiative was also launched for establishment of a children's fund.

Concern was expressed that so far only development related entities launched the initiative of thorough review of their publications, whereas there was no initiative from other entities.

Switzerland also supports the Secretary General's initiative on an Alliance of Civilizations, which was launched on the initiative of the Spanish and Turkish Governments.

The global road safety initiative, a partnership of seven private sector companies, was launched in December 2004.

With United Nations partners, her Office had launched the Action 2 Initiative and was working to implement it.

The Initiative was formally launched in late May 1996 and is now being offered in nearly 100 countries.

It had also launched a major initiative on African development.

At Johannesburg, a similar initiative was launched to promote rural energy for productive use, especially in the poorest countries.

My country is a participant in activities under the Proliferation Security Initiative, which was launched in Kraków in 2004.

This initiative was launched within the framework of the United Nations Geographic Information Working Group Task Group on Remote Sensing.

The Women as the Voice for the Environment initiative was launched during the first Global Women's Assembly on the Environment in 2004.

The corridors are also expected to act as growth poles and a major initiative, the Maputo Development Corridor, was launched in 1996.

It was noted that, at the initiative of Qatar, the South Fund for Development and Humanitarian Assistance had recently been launched in Qatar.

The Partnership also launched a new initiative on a Global Forest Information Service (GFIS).

The system wide plan, which was prepared and revised in 1992 and 1994, was replaced by the system wide Special Initiative in Africa, launched in March 1996.

A prominent new public outreach initiative launched during 2004 was the WHO Bridges magazine, conceived and produced jointly by Israeli and Palestinian health professionals.

The effort to strengthen international cooperation underpins the Convention Plus initiative launched in mid 2003.

Poland also joined the Proliferation Security initiative, also known as the Krakow initiative, launched in May 2003, and supported the Interdiction Principles for the initiative adopted in London in October 2003.

When the NEPAD initiative was launched in 2002, Canada welcomed it as an ambitious, yet realistic, framework to achieve sustainable development and reduce poverty in Africa.

One important initiative was the UNDP Media Award for Sustainable Human Development, launched at the end of June 1997 and to be awarded in July 1998.

In that regard, Kuwait reaffirmed its support for the Arab peace initiative launched in Beirut in 2002.

This initiative was launched as part of the preparatory process for Habitat II, to demonstrate concrete solutions to some of the pressing challenges facing an urbanizing world.

The 12 year Population and Reproductive Health Project (PPSG) was launched in February 1999, in cooperation with the World Bank, as part of the Guinea Vision 2010 initiative.

An important initiative to improve operational cooperation between law enforcement agencies in Central Asia was launched by the Office to establish a Central Asian Regional Information and Coordination Centre.

4. Also welcomes the United Nations Girls' Education Initiative launched by the Secretary General at the World Education Forum

4. Welcomes also the United Nations Girls' Education Initiative launched by the Secretary General at the World Education Forum

When it was launched in 1991, one of the main objectives of UNCTAD s Trade Efficiency Initiative was to provide practical ways and means to reduce dramatically the transaction costs associated with international trade operations.

Concerning new measures by the international community to prevent nuclear proliferation, Ukraine was seeking ways to expand its involvement in the Global Threat Reduction Initiative, launched in 2004, as well as in the Proliferation Security Initiative, which had proved to be very effective.

I was launched as a cartoonist.

The rocket was launched into space.

ICRIN was launched in June 2003.

SAC B was launched in 1996.

In recognition of the fact that many of the poorest developing countries continue to face unsustainable debt burdens, the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Debt Initiative was launched in September 1996.

An online training module has been partially successful, and a new initiative will be launched at the end of 2005.

Australia launched a major new initiative to develop and test a gender impact assessment tool in its 2003 2004 budget.

In this context, I would like to refer to the Arab peace initiative launched at the Beirut summit in 2002.

Recently, UNODC launched an integrity initiative to reinforce the ability of its staff to act in full integrity and transparency.

UNEP launched its initiative on environment and conflict prevention in December 2003. Since then an expert group has been established on the initiative, which held its first meeting in March 2005.

The Partners for Development initiative had also been launched at the high level segment in preparation for the first meeting of the initiative to be held in Lyon, France, in November 1998.

Organized repatriation was launched in December 1997.

Last summer the Government of Iceland launched an initiative to reduce speeding and to improve seat belt use on rural highways.

Together with my Spanish counterpart, Mr. Rodríguez Zapatero, I launched the Alliance of Civilizations initiative on the basis of that understanding.

The initiative was well received.

The Urban Millennium Partnership on localizing the Millennium Development Goals, an initiative of UN Habitat in partnership with the organization United Cities and Local Governments and UNDP, was launched in September 2004.

In that connection, it was worth recalling that the United Nations System wide Special Initiative on Africa launched a few months previously had established mechanisms for accelerated implementation of the New Agenda.