In many parts of the world we've seen that if governments introduce social protection programs, measures for example which give family benefits to families with children, particularly poorer families, this can have an important impact in enabling people to keep their children in school and out of the work force."

VOA: special.2010.05.17

The measures need the approval of the country's upper house of parliament, the Senate, which the government does not control.

VOA: standard.2009.05.03

Gabisov chided participants for failure to discuss more specific measures, and noted the brutal lengths to which corrupt officials go if they are exposed in the press.

VOA: standard.2009.05.15

"We continue to monitor production of Russian mobile missiles to ensure that in their production of the SS-27 mobile , they are not also building,covertly, a missile called the SS-20 which was banned during the Reagan years [So there are a large number of measures which allow the governments to be confident that the other side is in fact carrying out the treaty,"

VOA: standard.2009.04.08