The US may be intent on creating a transatlantic trade and investment pact with Europe, which would make a political statement to the world that the West writ large constitutes the universal normative reference point. But does such a West exist?

There is just one reference point, which is the body.

It will serve as a useful reference point in our deliberations.

The standards, guidelines and other normative work done so far in this field should be collected into a reference work, including the Sub Commission's own work.

Point of problem assistance may be offered by moveable reference kiosks near conference and meeting areas, as well as by telephone and virtual reference help desk teams.

With regard to the proposals for the agenda, Mr. Alfonso Martínez, noted that the reference to situations in his point 2 was not a reference to monitoring.

But the most serious thing is that the report, if approved, would further accentuate the imbalances that serve as its reference point and its starting point.

They serve as a framework and reference point for the work of OHCHR on the issue of trafficking.

A focal point provides each donor with a specific reference person to whom it can direct its enquiries.

We begin this debate taking the model presented by the group of four as our point of reference.

The mandates would then become a reference point for structuring the objectives over the short, medium and long term.

This annex is intended to be a useful point of reference during the Committee's consideration of the UK's national report.

Its role is fundamentally normative.

The ILO Tripartite Declaration of Principles Concerning Multinational Enterprises and Social Policy was mentioned as a reference point for the debate.

A fair system will require agreement on the quality and quantity of information used as the reference point for the review.

Kenya embraces the principles of the Charter, which serve as a basic reference point for the reform of the United Nations.

It could also function as a reference point for donors, promotion agencies and other international agencies in their dialogue with Governments.

Hong Kong I refer to as a kind of analog experience in a digital age, because you always have a point of reference.

Operational activities in support of normative principles

And that, to me, was a reference point that I think I needed to have to be able to make the work that I did.

Point in the project activity lifetime at which reference values are to be applied (decision 17 CP.7, paragraph 6 (c), (i), (ii) and (iii))

The objectives of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), to which we fully subscribe, are a point of reference for developmental strategies and for assessing progress.

General normative framework for the protection of human rights

Sometimes there was a gap in the normative framework.

On point 4, Mr. Alfonso Martínez stated that he could not see the problem with the reference to remedies as it was a reference to the identification of appropriate remedies in the case of specific violations, but was open to alternative wording.

That term should not be confused with the concepts of auto normative acts (imposing obligations on the author) and hetero normative acts (imposing obligations on other States).

Ending the construction and dismantling those settlements are obligations under the road map, which is and remains the indisputable point of reference for carrying out the peace process.

This type of normative approach actually presents forced and repeated marriages.

As I had no reference point for my body, I began to ask other women about their bodies in particular, their vaginas, because I thought vaginas were kind of important.

So it is easy to understand why Phelps still leads the way. Indeed, we can expect his new theoretical framework to become a reference point in a decade or two.

The report of the Secretary General In larger freedom towards development, security and human rights for all (A 59 2005) provided a well noted point of reference in that regard.

MINUGUA verification reports were an important reference point for participants in the 2002 2003 Consultative Group meetings, which focused national and international attention on the implementation of the peace agreements.

Previously, timeliness had been measured against the starting date of the session, whereas, under the slotting system, the reference point was the date on which documents were due for consideration.

We believe that although the Secretary General's report may not be exhaustive, it is, we stress, an important reference point in our progress towards the reforms needed by the United Nations.

It is an essential tool for planning and evaluating public policies for women and strengthens the SPM as a point of reference for gender issues and data about women in Brazil.

The curriculum framework forms a reference point for educational actions to be implemented in all of the Police Academies in the country, in compliance with the National Plan for Public Security.

16. Calls upon UN Habitat to strengthen efforts to coordinate and implement its normative and operational activities through the enhanced normative and operational framework elaborated in the medium term strategic and institutional plan, reinforcing its normative activities, and invites all countries in a position to do so to support the activities of UN Habitat in this regard

Central and Eastern Europe after 1989, though a very interesting reference point for analysts of the Arab revolutions, is not an appropriate reference point, because the region s new domestic and foreign order resulted from the change in external conditions stemming from the collapse of Soviet power. Internally, nearly all of these countries had a very clear idea about what they wanted democracy, freedom, a market economy, and protection from the return of the Russian empire.

Staff of the regional offices are contributing to the normative activities of UN Habitat.

It had eventually been decided to take a descriptive rather than a normative approach.

Efforts to establish criteria necessarily mean developing sets of normative statements about administrative operation.

The Division for Treaty Affairs carries out most of the normative functions of UNODC.

Normative documents were produced to guide practices by the health services and community actions.

Ms. Zabolotskaya (Russian Federation) reaffirmed her delegation's view regarding the timeliness of drafting an international convention which used the draft articles on State responsibility for internationally wrongful acts as a point of reference.

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