The accompanying plan of action was intended to make globalisation an effective instrument for the development of all countries and all people.

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Brugman highlighted the role of culture as an effective instrument to convey messages in relation to complex themes, particularly in relation to society and education.

UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

The office of the prosecutor general, set up in 1991, has proved an effective instrument and unlike in the past no one is exempt from complying with the law.

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There is a great deal still to be done to make the United Nations, this indispensable organization, into an effective instrument humanity needs, in this new century, to fulfil the hopes for peace, development and human rights.

UN: TRANSCRIPT OF PRESS CONFERENCE BY SECRETARY-GENERAL KOFI ANNAN AT HEADQUARTERS, 22 MARCH 2001

Participants welcomed another new law in the pipeline, on the transparency of state institutions to the mass-media, as another effective legal instrument to exercise the right to access information, which is judged to improve good governance and civil society participation in decision-making.

UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

Bill Clinton reminded us during his convention speech how effective the facts, well articulated, can be as a blunt instrument when applied to the head of the GOP.

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