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

BBC: Talks end with plea for the poor

In turn, science diplomacy is becoming a key instrument of peace-building and sustainable development in international relations.

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The MOST Forum of Ministers for Social Development could be an appropriate instrument to apply those lessons in the formulation of future policies.

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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

As an Organization in the United Nations system with an institutional mandate for sport, UNESCO has promoted the development of the International Convention against Doping in Sport, which was the first legal instrument against doping worldwide.

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