This can be achieved only through patient dialogue and general consensus.

In recent years, the number of General Assembly resolutions approved by consensus has increased steadily.

Since 1980, the General Assembly has annually adopted, by consensus, a resolution on this issue.

The General Assembly has spent many years pondering reform of the Security Council without achieving consensus.

The general consensus within the Transitional Government on carrying out a process of forcible disarmament is encouraging.

In his address to the General Assembly on 14 September, President General Pervez Musharraf called for a new consensus to achieve disarmament and non proliferation.

To our great regret, the General Assembly has not managed to achieve consensus and unity on this question.

In July 2003, the General Assembly adopted by consensus its resolution 57 337 on prevention of armed conflict.

The effective implementation of forest sector decentralization may depend on a basic national consensus regarding decentralization in general.

The report of the Secretary General reveals an emerging consensus on an overarching framework for effective dialogue related activities.

As the São Paulo Consensus adopted at UNCTAD XI represented the latest international consensus on trade and development, it should be implemented fully and highlighted at the forthcoming high level session of the General Assembly.

As in previous years, the States of ECCAS would like the General Assembly to adopt the draft resolution by consensus.

Several mandates adopted in the São Paulo Consensus (SPC) have general as well as specific implications for UNCTAD technical cooperation.

We sincerely hope that this draft resolution will enjoy the consensus that it has always enjoyed in the General Assembly.

There was general consensus on the need to implement existing conventions and standards in the area of countering money laundering.

The Secretary General rightly emphasized the importance of consensus as the basis for decisions at the high level plenary meeting.

There is a general consensus that TNC performance can have a positive impact in reducing poverty in host developing countries.

For the first time in many years there was a general consensus in Puerto Rico that the present political situation was unacceptable.

That call has been the subject of an annual resolution that has been adopted by consensus by the General Assembly since 1980.

Finally, as the Secretary General makes clear in his report, regional cooperation will be necessary for the implementation of the Monterrey Consensus.

On behalf of the Group of 77 and China, I commend the draft resolution to the General Assembly for adoption by consensus.

The Millennium Challenge Account initiative was developed to meet our commitments under the Monterrey Consensus, an approach endorsed by the Secretary General.

The international community must overcome the lack of consensus that was apparent at this year's NPT Review Conference and General Assembly summit.

The Declaration voted upon today is a weak, non binding political statement that does not reflect anything approaching consensus within the General Assembly.

The basic modalities of that mechanism, as we all know, were established in a resolution recently adopted by consensus by the General Assembly.

Mr. Verbeke (Belgium) (spoke in French) Belgium regrets that agreement could not be reached on a declaration that would enjoy consensus the General Assembly.

There had been general consensus around the concept of a feasibility study on an international system for tracking the movement of ozone depleting substances.

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There was general consensus that the definition of security needed to be broadened and that women's gender issues were lacking in current security sector reform initiatives.

Michael Krepon from the Stimson Center remarked that there still is no general consensus on international instruments giving complete guarantee for real space surveillance and monitoring.

China joined the consensus on the FMCT resolution adopted at the forty eighth session of the General Assembly in 1993, and on all the other resolutions on the subject adopted since then by the General Assembly.

Europe s Elusive Growth Consensus

Today, thanks to the the hard work of the government and all sectors of the community, the protection of ancient villages has become a consensus in general.

1. Decides, subject to the emergence of a consensus on its objectives and agenda, to convene the fourth special session of the General Assembly devoted to disarmament

1. Decides, subject to the emergence of a consensus on its objectives and agenda, to convene the fourth special session of the General Assembly devoted to disarmament

There was a general consensus, underlined by the Humanitarian Response Review, that the inability to address internal displacement had become the single biggest failure in humanitarian action.

The Secretary General is therefore right when he says that consensus might be desirable but that its absence should not be taken as a pretext for inaction.

It is our hope that the General Assembly will once again adopt by consensus Pakistan's draft resolution on promotion of religious and cultural understanding, harmony and cooperation.

A consensus has now emerged on the need to revitalize the General Assembly in its role as the deliberative policymaking and representative organ of the United Nations.

There is a clear consensus in Africa and in the development community in general, that massive investment in Africa's human resources is a necessary condition for development.

It is regrettable that the sixtieth session of the General Assembly comes at a time when the international community is unable to reach consensus on disarmament issues.

Several alternative texts were proposed with a view to achieving a consensus, although a consensus was not reached.

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The Monterrey Consensus is working.