Environment Minister Izabella Teixeira said it would help the government to formulate environmental policies.

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The postponement "is to allow the new government time to formulate its policies" before the meeting, foreign ministry officials said.

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Until the deadlock is resolved, Italy will remain a country adrift, its government unable to formulate the policies it needs (most urgently, a strategy for boosting economic competitiveness).

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Given the urgency of rapid deterioration, we must accelerate the pace of our work -- to train professionals, to build institutional capacities and to formulate effective public policies.

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The Institute of Medicine, a group that uses scientific research to formulate public health policies, currently recommends an Adequate Intake, or AI, rather than a specific daily amount of vitamin D.

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It therefore recognizes that States have the right to formulate and implement policies that encourage equitable access to all cultural expressions of the world, and, in so doing, necessarily promotes openness to those expressions of other cultures.

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"Most developing countries have so far been unable to take full advantage of the advances offered by new information and communication technologies in terms of access to scientific and technological information and learning opportunities, " Mr Matsuura said, calling for international frameworks to help Member States formulate national policies that facilitate access for all to essential information.

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And these have to greater or lesser degrees impaired the US's ability to formulate and implement rational policies in the region.

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Iraq has no institutions with similar instincts to implement policies, let alone formulate them.

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