In weighing the pros and cons, the grouping should first be clear about its primary objectives, and then consider whether the proposed change in approach would advance those aims.

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One of the primary objectives of the UN International Year of Water Cooperation 2013 is to break down, analyse and achieve a common understanding on the essence of 'water cooperation'.

UNESCO: Social and Human Sciences

One of the primary objectives of this consortium is to help define technical specifications which will enable application developers to create their applications once and run them on multiple TVs regardless of the platform.

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The project -- which lists among its primary objectives the elimination of nuclear weapons, the elimination of nuclear weapons testing, and the creation of a new "architecture" for global security -- features among its advisors such "national security experts" as former DemocraticSenator Dick Clark, former Democratic Representative Mel Levine and former liberal RepublicanCharles Mathias.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

In particular, the Bank is concerned that teachers are being affected by AIDS at such a rate that they cannot be replaced quickly enough to meet one of the key objectives, that of universal primary education by 2015.

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He developed a strategy that made clear that our number-one priority, the reason why we are in Afghanistan, is because of al Qaeda, and that our number-one objective for our mission in Afghanistan is to disrupt, dismantle, and ultimately defeat al Qaeda, and that all other objectives that are secondary to that help support the primary objective.

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But I believe that it won't and I think that you can see already, by what we've done on the economy, on unemployment, on primary schools, now on secondary schools, that we have a track record of setting objectives that we can secure.

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