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

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

Issues relating to race and ethnicity are also included in this list of topics, which is the starting point to a national debate.

One point that was consistently made in that debate was that First Committee reform should not be dealt with in a vacuum.

We believe that Member States will not allow critics of the United Nations to point to this debate as yet another example of simple discussions without any conclusions.

But, as the IMF has stressed, the debate needs to go beyond Europe. Moreover, it is more than a debate about public policy, because, in the post crisis world, market incentives might point toward forms of separation between retail and investment banking.

The gathering point for 15 and 16 September and for the duration of the general debate will be the West Foyer (Indonesian Lounge) where light refreshments will be served.

Taking note of the Secretary General's most recent report on that subject (A 58 377), it considered that the proposals formulated there should be the point of departure for debate on that subject.

This list of topics is the starting point for a larger debate that will be promoted by the Ministry, with the society at large, including with broadcasting stations and other cultural producers.

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Paragraph 45 of the 2005 report made it clear that the Committee had no common position on the question of the LDC ceiling, to which the representative of Zambia had referred the debate was continuing on that point.

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Summary of the debate

Summary of the debate

Adjournment of the debate

COPENHAGEN Discussions about global warming are marked by an increasing desire to stamp out impure thinking, to the point of questioning the value of democratic debate. But shutting down discussion simply means the disappearance of reason from public policy.

The point, most of us. What's the point?

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This time the subject is no longer Russia versus China, because Russia has long ceased to be a point of comparison. Instead, the new comparative debate involves Asia s two new economic, demographic, and political giants, China and India.

Brazilian women point with pride to their president, Dilma Rousseff, but also underscore how much discrimination remains. In Australia, with its robust work life debate, women point to the success of Julia Gillard, the first woman prime minister, but note that she has no children (nor does German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the first woman to lead her country).

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Draghi spent months before the ECB s January 22 announcement that it would launch quantitative easing (QE) in intense public debate with the Germans over which point of principle they chose as a red line the point beyond which no deal would be possible. Germany s red line was debt mutualization there must be no sharing of losses if any eurozone country should default.