These priorities have not coincided during 1997.

(f) Support the process of aligning the positions of the Ibero American countries in international trade negotiations.

Currently, the trend is towards reconstruction and development.

50. However, the United States was committed to building on those successes and trends.

Further informal discussion was needed on the question of trigger mechanisms so as to achieve a greater convergence of views.

We will monitor progress with a view to raising the benchmark in the longer term in line with international norms.

Likewise, a convergence of views on the forum, or mechanism, in which to identify the issue has not yet evolved.

Organized by the CARICOM secretariat, it dealt with the tasks of reconciling regional policies with global trends.

Views also converged to the effect that good competition laws and enforcement agencies gave a positive signal to foreign investors.

Generally speaking, parties concerned are now moving towards consensus on this issue, though divergence remains on some specific questions.

As regards the international investment agreements themselves, he shared the view that their development friendliness should be consistent with the trend towards liberalization.

10 See the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness Ownership, Harmonization, Alignment, Results and Mutual Accountability , on the more recent trends in this domain.

Growing consensus on what is needed in Africa

23. Staff rule 306.2, Sick leave, is amended to harmonize its provisions with amended rules 106.2 and 206.3.

This decline is consistent across all the regions as well as for the urban and rural areas.

It was underlined in that respect that the effectiveness of cooperation was contingent on the full commitment of national Governments to work together and display solidarity and responsibility, as well as on the convergence of the national interests of the countries involved.

32. The trends with regard to abuse of hallucinogens are varied.

The resulting trend is towards oligopolistic competition and growing intra firm and inter firm competition.

Many participants identified common interests, and an encouraging convergence of perceptions on a number of issues emerged as a result.

This in keeping with the modern trend in commercial law conventions, which promote their application as early as possible to those States that seek to apply such rules to their commerce.

All indications are that the Government remains committed to implementing policies which will continue this encouraging trend.

Single parents, unmarried couples, divorces1 and separations continue to become more commonplace as attitudes to marriage, cohabitation, and the role and status of women increasingly conform to international trends.

With investment policy regimes becoming increasingly open and similar, countries find that they need to undertake additional promotional efforts to attract the desired level of inflows, and of a kind consonant with their development objectives.

However, the basic trends and tendencies obtained by the models agree qualitatively.

3. Also commends the public private partnerships that were forged and which showed that, faced with a threat that affected entire industries, private and public interest converged

The trend in CO2 emissions from transport was practically homogenous among Parties.

104. The positive employment trends also led to lower unemployment rates.

In order to attain that aim, Japan is firmly committed to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and welcomes the recent trend of increasing official development assistance (ODA) on a global scale.

Increasingly, States are bringing their legislation into line with international norms in order to make sure that their domestic law is compatible with their international legal obligations.

(b) Tendency towards a higher mortality rate

Although those proposals have different approaches, there are also important points of convergence that we believe should serve as a basis for seeking consensus solutions that will correspond to the best interests of all Member States.

A concerted effort is needed to reverse a trend that runs counter to the most basic tenets of international humanitarian law.

The purchasing power of the population is steadily deteriorating, resulting in successive strikes by civil servants.

It encourages CEB to take further initiatives to ensure greater policy coherence and coordination throughout the United Nations system.

And, furthermore, when skeletal muscle is injured, that's what causes chemokines these signals saying, Cancer, you can come to me, the go signs for the tumors it causes them to highly express these chemokines.

A related factor is that, while there is a growing convergence as to which core indicators should be included in evaluations, there is still no consensus.

China s Decrepit Population

(b) An audit of the country s FDI policy framework and administrative structures and procedures, identifying how legislative, administrative and institutional structures can be made more consistent

The Ordinance brings our laws into closer alignment with the Convention on the Rights of the Child, in particular with article 34 of that Convention.

Certain experts raised concerns that the regulation of private companies could lead to further legitimization of the trend towards private security.

123. Rwandan prisons and detention centres are all more or less equally overcrowded.

You never hear of circumstances over which we have no control... rushing us into peace, do you?

Over the next biennium, we will seek to consolidate and elaborate these practices for the benefit of Member States.

There is an increasingly urgent need for a comprehensive, coherent and specific approach to the issue of the protection of civilians in armed conflict.

12. The Chairman noted with satisfaction the high level of the discussion and the apparent convergence of views on the question of the scope of application of the convention.