Assistance for artistic creation, refresher training and reconversion (grants);

A reconversion of existing manpower, notably of economists and social policy experts, should become possible.

We'll send our chief chemist along to supervise the reconversion process.

The courses targeted technical experts at the General Directorate for Agricultural Reconversion and at the Vice-Ministry for Alternative Development.

The importance of debt relief or reconversion was reiterated, in terms both of relieving State budgets and of encouraging investment.

States should draw up a reconversion plan to ensure the social reintegration of the members of such groups.

Military reconversion, however, will not be easy; we will have to make a special effort to achieve a smaller and better equipped army.

As part of their mandate, missions should, moreover, be capable of collecting, confiscating and destroying surplus small arms and of promoting the reconversion of the arms industry.

In that context, the reconversion of debt for countries with high rates of HIV as a means of financing the fight against AIDS would substantially help those countries.

It must be based on massive development assistance, debt cancellation or the reconversion of debt into housing assistance, the fight against poverty and the preservation of the environment.