As is widely recognized, the two most important issues are security and drugs.

Its impartial and strict handling of elections is widely recognized.

13. International human rights standards are now established and widely recognized.

Security assurances had been widely recognized as critical to strengthening the NPT.

As is widely recognized, it is a comprehensive and long term process.

The CTC is one of the Council's most forceful mechanisms in the field of counter terrorism its authority and legitimacy are widely recognized by all sides.

PARIS The United States is widely recognized as possessing the deepest, most liquid, and most efficient capital markets in the world. America s financial system supports efficient capital allocation, economic development, and job creation.

The value of creative play and exploratory learning is widely recognized in early childhood education.

At least one member is a representative of a widely recognized organization of indigenous people.

70. While the categories of prevention, peacemaking, peacekeeping and post conflict peace building remain useful, it is now widely recognized that most operations combine activities in more than one category.

The development and social problems of the African continent, especially its LDCs, had been widely recognized.

The creation of various female education programmes has been widely recognized to be one of the most fundamental means of increasing the overall welfare of women and thus the entire community.

3. It is now widely recognized that in today apos s world, most conflict situations involving violence, and leading to states of public emergency, are taking place within rather than between States.

The importance of active participation in disaster management by local communities in particular has been widely recognized.

Those exceptions to the general rule of foreign State immunity were widely recognized and had worked well.

In Asia, childbirth assisted by traditional untrained birth attendants has also been recognized as being widely practised.

The potential for employment generation through shelter programmes, including programmes of housing rehabilitation, is now widely recognized.

31. It was widely recognized in the international community that human rights were fundamental to good governance.

The need to develop transport and communications infrastructure is widely recognized, but joint action has been generally slow.

41. Universal adult franchise, the most widely recognized vehicle for the realization of the individual apos s right to self determination, took root in Sri Lanka in 1931, even before the country gained independence.

Obviously, the issue is going to stay on our agenda, because the need for action is so widely recognized.

English is by far the most widely spoken language in the world.

As the Convention on the Rights of the Child remained the most widely recognized mechanism for protecting children's rights, the European Union would vote against amendments intended to weaken previously agreed references to that Convention.

The benefits of such programmes, in terms of providing a focus for forest policy development and implementation, are widely recognized.

Thirdly, it was widely recognized that the New Partnership for Africa's Development has changed the nature of discussions on development.

27. Mr. Laourou (Benin) said it was widely recognized that drug trafficking and crime were interdependent phenomena and transcended frontiers.

During the last five years, the relationship between this step and lasting solutions to conflict situations has been widely recognized.

Furthermore, it was widely recognized that Governments had the primary responsibility for ensuring a proper level of education for all citizens.

Brazil considers that the decision to withdraw from the NPT is a sovereign right that is widely recognized under international law.

The benefits of effective insolvency laws are widely recognized and accepted by most nations, as evidenced by the efforts of many nations in recent years to update their insolvency laws to take into account modern finance and business.

Mandarin, English, and Arabic are all examples of the world's most widely spoken languages.

Most representatives recognized the importance of demand reduction activities and policies.

Over the last few decades, there has been increasing convergence towards a set of non jurisdiction specific, widely recognized financial reporting standards.

It is widely recognized that trade has a multiplier effect and is able to lift poor communities towards becoming self sustaining ones.

In the third place, there is a widely recognized need to develop subregional, regional and global approaches to conflict prevention and peacebuilding.

99. It is only recently that domestic violence has been articulated and more widely recognized as a violation of women s human rights.

Speaking of new opportunities that had emerged but not widely recognized, the Under Secretary General pointed to the areas of finance and technology.

The importance and potential of space science and technology for the prosperity of Earth and human beings are widely, although not sufficiently, recognized.

The instruments dealing with civil aviation (1, 2, 3 and 7) are the most widely adopted.

Instead, it is widely recognized that such disasters are the result of the way individuals and societies relate to threats originating from natural hazards.

Launched at UNCTAD XI, the global Partnership on Measuring ICT for Development is now widely recognized as playing a leading role in this process.

The importance and potential of space science and technology for the prosperity of the Earth and human beings are widely, although not sufficiently, recognized.

The importance and potential of space science and technology for the prosperity of the Earth and human beings are widely, although not sufficiently, recognized.

1. From a legislative point of view, in 1982 the Government promulgated Environmental Act No.4 1982 which, its is widely recognized, needs improving.

Food fortification and iron supplementation are widely ranked among the most cost effective interventions for poverty reduction.