Priority one Fundamental transit policy issues

For Pakistan, education is not merely a priority it is a policy imperative.

One priority of his country's migration policy was the return of Crimean Tatars.

Experts identified issues of particular policy importance that should be given priority attention.

Stabilizing the western Balkans remains a priority on my country's foreign policy agenda.

It highlighted 10 priority areas, drawn together in a comprehensive and practical policy plan.

And so the policy priority is to break the bottlenecks in expanding the construction sector.

The main priority was fundamental transit policy issues, and Ethiopia was doing its best to harmonize and standardize its policy with its transit neighbours.

Promoting greater gender equity is one of the ten priority areas of the National Health Policy.

Turkey has achieved important progress in areas of policy priority addressed in the World Programme of Action.

Reinforcing the coordination of humanitarian assistance within the United Nations has long been a Canadian foreign policy priority.

The pursuit of a consistent policy of disarmament, non proliferation and arms control was a priority for his country.

Achieving the twin challenges of sustaining growth and reducing inequality has high priority on the policy agenda of the region.

Many provinces have a policy giving priority to the admission of ethnic minority children at junior and senior secondary schools.

Enkhtuvshin said that the development of relations with China is a priority for Mongolia's diplomacy. Mongolia upholds the one China policy

The proposal is in line with the strategic priority to enhance national policy in programme countries indicated in paragraph 7 above.

The Government verbally committed itself to increasing efforts to include civil society and minority communities in policy advice mechanisms (a priority).

The labor constituency, ever fearful of import competition, has undermined trade policy. It has also shifted aid policy in directions that assign priority to areas where the returns to US efforts are relatively minuscule.

Many countries therefore view the development of local currency bond markets to be an important policy priority that reduces vulnerability to external shocks.

Fund raising will be a priority issue considered by the Board at its next session, together with the various policy issues indicated above.

Eleven students are expected to graduate from the four year program in June 2005 Summer Student Program In addition to the GN Priority Hiring Policy, priority hiring has been extended to Nunavut beneficiary high school and college students.

One priority should be to provide guidance and leadership to the Human Settlements Network, focusing it on policy oriented research (see paras. 32 and 33).

Finally, as children are a particularly vulnerable group in humanitarian crises, they have been a priority of the European Union's humanitarian aid policy for several years.

As far as the health sector was concerned, policy instruments were being developed as a matter of priority for the three areas mentioned by Ms. Simms.

The Division will also directly promote and facilitate the implementation of the Policy Package at the field level, in particular with regard to its priority countries.

Recognizing that older women outnumber older men, increasingly so with increasing age, and that the situation of older women everywhere must be a priority for policy action,

To support this effort, China s government should loosen its grip on the exchange rate, while maintaining appropriate capital controls. Renminbi internationalization should not be a policy priority.

Belarus had an open economy and its accession to membership in WTO was part of a sustainable development strategy and a priority of its economic foreign policy.

One of the priority issues in my country's international assistance policy is its support for the consolidation of peace and for nation building in countries emerging from conflict.

The National Plan on Policies for Women states that, Transversal administration is one of the big challenges for public administration ( ) and is a policy priority for the government .

A revised national youth policy, which was developed on the basis of the 10 priority areas identified in the World Programme of Action for Youth, is under active consideration.

However, under pressure to cut costs and increase efficiency, the 2000 2003 Business Plans reoriented UNDP as a knowledge based' organization, giving priority to advocacy and upstream policy advice.

20) were not considered practical. Nevertheless, the Committee remains of the opinion that national legislation and policy must take a holistic and comprehensive approach to the implementation of the Convention, which requires that priority be given to children's issues, that such policy be actively coordinated and that assessments be made regarding the potential impact of policy decisions on children.

For its part, the African Union at its annual meeting held in the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya in June 2005, formally accepted the Conference and affirmed sustainable urbanization as a policy priority.

It is also the policy of the Government to provide free education, including notebooks and textbooks, for ethnic minority children, and priority is attached to their admission into universities and colleges.

In promoting financing for development, the Committee should give priority to areas such as poverty eradication, macroeconomic policy, sustainable development, and operational activities for the development of countries with special needs.

The G 8 2005 Summit called for increasing momentum towards the ambitious and balanced outcomes in the Doha negotiations as the highest common priority in trade policy for the year ahead.

Viet Nam's social welfare policy does not contains any discrimination in terms of sex, social strata and beliefs and gives priority to ethnic minority people and those entitled to preferential social policies.

Priority countries

Priority setting

There are four high priority and 16 medium priority recommendations in the group.

(a) Endorse intercultural education as national policy priority to ensure equal access for indigenous children to quality and culturally appropriate primary education, as stipulated in the Convention on the Right of the Child

A key criterion in the assessment of policy options is the probability that a given choice will contribute to increasing effective delivery of priority interventions to high, sustained and equitable levels of coverage.

In other words, gender mainstreaming properly understood to include specific women centred activities, and long accepted as UN policy, must become a priority and be implemented throughout the UN system and by governments everywhere.

UNAMSIL continues to attach high priority to the training of its all civilian and military personnel on the prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse, in line with the United Nations policy of zero tolerance.