Examples of using Majority of speakers in English and their translations into Russian
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A majority of speakers at the Commission had favoured such a five-year interval.
While the Commission was evenly divided on the subject, the majority of speakers in the Sixth Committee were opposed to its inclusion.
The majority of speakers welcomed the presence of experts at the working group and their written contributions.
As regards the cooperation andexchange of observations, the majority of speakers emphasized the leadership role of the mandate holders themselves.
A majority of speakers, however, spoke in favour of increasing membership in both categories, permanent and non-permanent.
While reaffirming the basic principles underlying UNDP development cooperation activities(inter alia, the voluntary grant nature of the programme, universality, national ownership, progressivity,transparency) the majority of speakers acknowledged that UNDP must change to serve the needs of developing countries better.
The majority of speakers indicated that the problem of HIV/AIDS as it related to drug abuse was a serious issue in their countries.
Leaving aside the latter question for the time being, Singapore welcomed the recognition by the Commission that any such right could not be categorized as diplomatic protection,and noted that the majority of speakers in the Committee had opposed the inclusion of a provision recognizing the right of the flag State to exercise diplomatic protection on behalf of non-national crew members.
The majority of speakers recognized the importance of social protection in reducing poverty and ensuring the enjoyment of human rights by all.
While one speaker said that the high level of sovereign debt was caused by weak political systems in which borrowing against future and long-term public assets was at odds with the short political cycle,resulting in intergenerational debt, the majority of speakers said that rising public debt was, in most cases, the result of failure of the private financial system and consequent rescuing by governments.
The majority of speakers explicitly reaffirmed and supported both Article 97 of the Charter and related provisions in General Assembly resolutions.
A majority of speakers stressed the importance of traditional means of communication, especially radio, for reaching out to audiences in developing countries.
The majority of speakers provided information on national criminal justice approaches to addressing the mandatory offences covered by the Convention.
A majority of speakers, speaking in support of the resolution, argued for its adoption so as to allow Bosnia and Herzegovina to exercise its inherent right to self-defence.
The majority of speakers fully supported the speedy adoption of an optional protocol affording the fullest possible protection against children being involved in armed conflicts.
The majority of speakers called on Israel to end its settlement activity, including in East Jerusalem, and to refrain from all actions that might prejudge the outcome of the final negotiations.
The majority of speakers called on Israel to end its settlement activity, including in East Jerusalem, and to refrain from all actions that might prejudge the outcome of the final negotiations.
Overall, the majority of speakers devoted a large portion of their interventions to the question of equitable representation on and increase in the membership of the Security Council and related matters.
The majority of speakers echoed the need for enabling the agencies and practitioners involved in matters of international cooperation to have access to the contact details of their counterparts in other States.
The majority of speakers highlighted the innovative approaches of the Department, the strengthening of professionalism within its ranks and the pioneering role it had played within the Secretariat in the electronic dissemination of information.
The majority of speakers referred to the need to evaluate the impact of alternative development activities against social, economic and human development indicators and not solely in relation to illicit crop reduction figures;
The majority of speakers referred to the need to evaluate the impact of alternative development activities using social, economic and human development indicators rather than by reference to statistics on illicit crop reduction alone.
The majority of speakers stressed the need to pay more attention to adding staff from developing countries when filling vacant posts, as mandated by Council resolution 2008/5, with a view to achieving a more equitable geographical distribution within the Branch.
The majority of speakers also welcomed the decision of the Council to preserve the Social Forum as a unique space for interactive dialogue between the United Nations human rights machinery and various stakeholders, including grass-roots organizations.
In 1999, the majority of speakers in the Standing Committee suggested that, in cases of suspected or proven fraud, the competent national authorities might be asked to institute criminal proceedings or recovery procedures.
The majority of speakers, however, expressed disappointment at both the failure of the 2005 NPT Review Conference to agree on a substantive final document, and the omission of a section on disarmament and non-proliferation from the Summit Outcome document.
The majority of speakers on those subjects in the Sixth Committee were opposed or indifferent to the inclusion of the diplomatic protection of members of a ship's crew by the flag State and the diplomatic protection by States of nationals employed by an intergovernmental international organization.
The majority of speakers underscored the urgent necessity of negotiating and bringing to a conclusion a non-discriminatory, multilateral and internationally and effectively verifiable treaty banning the production of fissile material for nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices.
While the majority of speakers in this debate have talked about looking for new opportunities and potential to strengthen support for national efforts to meet the MDGs, my country today is concerned with the harm already done to the MDG process by the unilateral economic sanctions introduced against Belarus by one Member State.
A majority of speakers acknowledged that existing national laws and international conventions left significant gaps regarding issues such as the functioning of a bill of lading and seaway bills, the relation of those transport documents to the rights and obligations between the seller and the buyer of the goods and the legal position of the entities that provided financing to a party to a contract of carriage.