Increasingly, head community associations are giving greater attention to this topic.

In the United Nations, this is a subject that should be given increased attention.

Special emphasis will be given to investment related environmental issues.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is paying increasing attention to the social dimension of stabilization and adjustment programmes.

We note with great satisfaction that the activities of the Agency are paying increasing attention to these problems.

They were also concentrating more and more on social issues, leaving development to the non private sector.

In recent years the United Nations system had devoted increasing attention to the eradication of poverty.

The Executive Secretary explained that humanitarian matters and social concerns had also received increased attention from the Commission.

75. The crucial interrelationship between women, environment and development has been increasingly recognized in recent years.

Since its introduction, that concept has engendered progressively greater interest from Member States, including my own country.

The question of equitable representation on and increase in the membership of the Security Council is gaining further importance in the eyes of the international community.

Over the years, some threats continue to receive more attention than others.

South Africa, however, is showing an increasing interest in investment in countries in the southern African subregion.

There are several examples of this in recent years and countries are beginning to put more emphasis on this area.

Certain programme areas, however, which have not so far received priority, need increased attention, particularly drought preparedness and management.

The Decade is therefore an opportunity for the international community to pay increased attention to indigenous people and to work for solutions to their problems.

We are pleased that the Global Agenda for Dialogue among Civilizations is attracting increasing interest from Member States, international organizations and civil society.

In the view of his delegation, the reforms could be sustained only if each aspect received equal attention.

Medicinal plants are used in the treatments of many diseases and illnesses, the uses and effects of which are of growing interest to Western societies.

The subject of peacebuilding has received increasing attention since the High level Panel's report (A 59 565) last December.

Local governments are paying increasing attention to the needs of young people, especially youth at risk, in the development of their urban crime prevention strategies.

In recent years we have noted the increased importance the international community attaches to the maintenance of peace and security in certain regions.

The Office selects interns, arranges for the duration and type of their training and assigns them to projects in which an intern has a special interest.

Iceland has over the years actively encouraged more concerted action on marine pollution, an issue of growing international concern.

The threat of such a scourge hovering over our youth and, hence, over the future of the world requires that increased attention be given this problem.

To achieve this, we must give greatly increased attention to the economic and social concerns of Member States and, indeed, to the people each Member State serves.

That, together with the fact that all the members of the Committee and 58 other observer States had attended the session, showed that there was increased interest in the work of the Committee.

(d) Management, budgetary and administrative issues. As requested by the General Assembly of the United Nations, the Unit has been devoting increasing attention to these matters over the past few years.

An increasing interest in disability legislation has been witnessed over recent years, particularly in developing countries, while other more industrialized countries have enacted comprehensive legislation.

In this same context, we must also pay greater attention to implementing Article 55 of the Charter, in which the positive connection is recognized between economic and social welfare and

Of particular concern is the possibility of impact generated tsunamis, which is receiving increasing attention from all countries with extended coastal areas.

Accordingly, in recent years, the question of demand reduction has been given increasing attention. We welcome the activities of the UNDCP in this matter.

We already note a growing interest on the part of some major Western companies in investing in and cooperating with viable Romanian companies. This augurs well for the stimulation of economic activity.

Over the past year several organs of the United Nations have shown an increased interest in non governmental views on the situation in East Timor, and especially in hearing from the East Timorese people themselves.

The needs of ageing populations are of growing concern.

The process on Kosovo is of paramount importance for the entire region, and understandably, it is followed with great attention by political leaders and public opinion in South East Europe.

Ms. Aziz (Pakistan) said that in recent years the international community had paid increasing attention to the situation of children and women and the governments had recognized that individual well being was a prerequisite for general economic development, not the inverse.

During the International Decade of the World's Indigenous People, the international community had shown increased interest in indigenous people, and progress had been made regarding international and national legislation on the subject.

Agricultural development will therefore deserve increased attention in the future from the point of view both of raising agricultural output and incomes and of preventing the limited land resources of SIDS from undergoing degradation.

Here I would recall that the Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations has paid increasing attention to issues concerning women, peace and security and that gender concerns are being raised in all new peacekeeping operations.

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Questions of external debt, resource flows, market access, terms of trade, trade financing and technological capacity building, which continue to be of primary concern in the African context, call for increased attention in the follow up process.

The EMPRES programme has recognized the Red Sea area as one of the areas that will require increased attention, and field activities are scheduled to begin there at the beginning of 1995.

When Maghreb and European structures have been set up, this human dimension of strengthening security and cooperation in the Mediterranean will take on greater prominence and be given increased attention by host countries in order to improve the conditions for residence and assimilation for the Maghreb community.

Sami was spending more and more time with Layla.