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New Zealand
said that the CSD's challenge is to strike the
right balance between keeping the political spotlight on
environment and development issues, and going about the nuts and
bolts work of implementation of Agenda 21. To ensure that the CSD
does not go the way of some other UN organizations and become
bogged down in bureaucracy, New Zealand believes there is room to
improve the current guidelines for national reporting. Similarly,
Australia said that the current guidelines for the
preparation of national reports may be so difficult as to
discourage governments. The CSD should consider ways to simplify
the guidelines for national reports and facilitate their voluntary
preparation.