20. Mozambique is in the midst of far reaching structural economic reforms.

The Mirage of Structural Reform

Structural reforms that do not take social realities into account could destabilize democratization processes as they impede the fulfilment of those expectations.

Ireland apos s convergence process towards EU economic standards has been accompanied by changes in the structure of the economy.

The reform process was often inspired by international financial institutions.

The Security Council's structural reform and the improvement of its working methods should go hand in hand.

III. Structural reforms

Concerning institutional reforms, Viet Nam reaffirms its position that reform of the Security Council is only a part of the United Nations reform process.

An urgent task, simply crying out for attention, is to bring order to the taxation system so as to stimulate production processes and structural changes.

Reform process

Assessment of internal management structures will continue in a phased manner as part of the restructuring.

At the heart of the reform process is the need to align the Organization s human resources capacity with its mission, structures and culture.

The Palestinian Authority has achieved important results in its reform process.

Fifth, structural reforms are still occurring at a snail s pace, holding back potential growth. And, while structural reforms are necessary, some measures for example, labor market liberalization and pension overhauls may boost the eurozone s savings rate and thus weaken aggregate demand further (as occurred in Germany following its structural reforms a decade ago).

The global financial architecture needs to be reformed to buttress harmonization and coordination.

Restructuring and Committee secretaries

Reform is a process.

Special procedures and the reform process

An important prerequisite for this is in depth structural transformation.

ASYCUDA is aimed at reforming the customs clearance process.

United Nations reform process

Judges and prosecutors have agreed to and implemented many reforms and are considering other suggestions for structural and institutional reforms.

Radical change is necessary, given the challenges posed by persistent poverty and a poorly structured globalization process that leaves so many people and countries in destitution.

Pakistan regards the outcome document as the beginning, not the end, of the United Nations reform process.

It is really up to us, for the most important reform is not that of institutions and structures.

Apart from that, the international financial architecture should also be reformed.

for the restructuring and revitalization of the United Nations

The implementation of structural reforms should be continued.

This session is especially important in that it is meant to give impetus to the ongoing negotiations on the future structure of the United Nations through the reform process.

Security Council reform is the centrepiece of the reform process in which we are engaged.

But it is structural reform of the eurozone s institutional arrangements, not reforms within individual countries, that will have the greatest impact. Unless Europe is willing to make those reforms, it may have to let the euro die to save itself.

As may be expected in such a process, initial findings of the Republic apos s Judicial Council on the performance of the restructured legal system indicated that many courts still face technical and financial difficulties.

Improved management structure

The reform of the United Nations is not an easy process, but unless we reform its most powerful organ, it will remain unfinished business.

Switzerland, for its part, intended to provide full support to UNRWA in the operational sphere, and also in the sphere of structural reform.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo is now in the process of modernizing and restructuring its customs services and reforming its customs legislation.

We must continue to reform the structures of the United Nations.

Item 8 of the provisional agenda

Likewise, key structural reforms in the judicial, health and public administration sectors were required.

(b) To consider the arrangements set out in the concept paper to represent the first step in the process of reform

The process is to be finished in 1999.

People should have sufficient guarantees of employment in the course of privatization and restructuring of enterprises.

Noting the progress made in these countries in achieving macroeconomic stabilization in the course of structural reforms, which require more active investment policies,

(a) Reformed, improved and streamlined its agenda to seven items

(a) Structure of the education system in Tunisia before and after the July 1991 reform