Achim Steiner, executive director of the United Nations Environment Program, made the call during the opening meeting of the 178-nation Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, or CITES, in Bangkok.
The Federal Reserve released the minutes from its March meeting before the opening bell Wednesday morning, hours earlier than planned after the news was inadvertently sent to Capitol Hill staffers at some point Tuesday.
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Following the release of the IAEA report and ahead of the UN General Assembly's opening meeting later this month, this week US, German, British, French, Russian and Chinese diplomats met in Germany to discuss the possibility of ratcheting up Security Council sanctions against Iran.
Opening the meeting, the League's Secretary General, Nabil al-Arabi, said the failure of international diplomacy had put a special responsibility on the league.
Opening the meeting earlier on Tuesday, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon described the fighting in Syria as "a regional calamity with global ramifications".
Opening the meeting, Prime Minister Gordon Brown warned that any such scaling back would be a "serious mistake" and could risk causing another "downward lurch" in the global economy.
The justices said they will review an appeals court ruling that held that the upstate New York town of Greece, a Rochester suburb, violated the Constitution by opening nearly every meeting over an 11-year span with prayers that stressed Christianity.
The comments that he made at the opening of the meeting and to the chair were not directed at any one person but directed at the entire company, and underscore the responsibilities that they have as the responsible party for this disaster.
Readers of The Economist know that the meeting in Seattle was supposedly about opening markets to international trade.
Thank you for meeting with us today, for opening up your heart.
Speaking during the opening ceremony of the meeting, Alice Aureli, Senior Programme Specialist at the UNESCO International Hydrological Programme, noted that formulating good water governance strategies is needed to ensure the survival of the planet.
Journalists are invited to cover the opening session of the meeting (from 10.00 a.m. to 11.00 a.m. on 7 July) as well as the session for conclusions and recommendations (from 10.00 a.m. to 1.00 p.m. on 8 July), when Irina Bokova, the Director-General of UNESCO, will speak (from 12.30 p.m. to 1.00 p.m.).
The next meeting between the two sides was their opening match of the 1995 World Cup in South Africa, Wales cruising to a 57-10 win in Bloemfontein, their only victory in the tournament.
Irina Bokova will take part in the opening ceremony of the regional meeting on Memory Archives within the framework of the 20th commemoration of the Memory of the World Programme, as well as the launch of the Network of National Authorities against Racism, Xenophobia and all means of discrimination.
Though there were many performers at the opening dinner of Huntsman's Shanghai meeting last November, the real star of the show was Jon Huntsman Sr.
Among the highlights are the opening day of Newmarket's Craven meeting on Wednesday, 13 April and the Easter Day fixture at Sandown Park on Sunday, 24 April.
But this result means England must now be dreading their meeting with Tonga, who beat USA in their opening game, on 28 September in Paris as well.
The Director-General will also take part in the launch of a new Sustainable Development Solutions Network led by Professor Jeffrey Sachs, attend the opening of the Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting.
On June 1, 2010, Asian Health Services took a step closer to meeting the community's growing demand for services by opening the Frank Kiang Medical Center.
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The meeting between the hosts and the Irish will conclude the opening round of matches, with head coach Phillip Doyle's team keen to put a spanner in the English works.
The opening ceremony, organized on the occasion of the meeting of the Council of Ministers of Culture of South-East Europe will be attended by Ministers of Culture from South-East Europe.
Before meeting the ambassador, Mr Natalegawa issued a statement saying the opening of the office was "clearly incompatible and contrary to the friendly relations that have existed between the two countries".
This is the kind of story they tell about the man: In October 1996 Bossidy, rushing to get to a meeting, slipped and fell in a Paris hotel room, opening a gash in his arm.
Mr Mbeki stayed away from the Durban meeting, and Mrs Tshabalala-Msimang flew in only for the opening and closing ceremonies.
An emergency meeting in December brought in a number of changes, including reduced opening hours, but the situation is still critical.
It will be exciting, it will bring back memories of the opening night (of the Broadway production, in 1959), meeting Marlene Dietrich at the St.
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Rather than mar the Laeken declaration on Europe's future and sour the opening celebrations for the euro, Belgium's Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt ended the meeting without a resolution.
The university says an extension to its Atrium campus in Cardiff opening in September 2014 will cater for up to 1, 200 more students, meeting demand from the creative industries and financial sector.
Croydon Central MP Gavin Barwell, who proposed the debate at the backbench committee meeting last month, said after the debate that he had planned to mention benefits in his opening speech but ran out of time.
In his opening remarks, the Director-General recalled that from the origins in a ministerial meeting at UNESCO in 2002, the Heads of State level Summit Forums, co convened by UNESCO in Ohrid (2003), Tirana (2004), Varna (2005), Opatija (2006), Bucharest and Sibiu (2007), and Athens (2008) have been significant for the entire region.
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