The phrase "high level delegate" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It refers to someone who holds a high position or has a significant amount of authority within a delegation or group of people. Example: The high level delegate from the United States played a crucial role in negotiating the peace treaty between the two warring countries.
Because this forum took place just a few days ahead of the World Bank Spring Meetings, we were fortunate to have many high level delegates from ministries of finance and ministries of health from around the world in addition to representatives of bilateral donor agencies, philanthropic foundations, the private sector and prominent civil society organizations.
At a side event for high level delegates co-hosted by UNICEF, UNAIDS and the governments of Australia and Botswana during the High-Level Meeting, UNICEF announced the renewal of the Unite for Children, Unite against AIDS campaign, with its global challenge to help eliminate new paediatric HIV infections and achieve a 30 per cent decrease in new infections amongst young people.
"Her position has to be very uncomfortable," said one high-level delegate, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
The Tokyo conference is being attended by high-level delegates from more than 70 nations and international organisations.
At the recently completed Munich Security Conference, hundreds of high-level delegates spent a long weekend together debating the many serious issues facing the world community.
Part of the conference's strategy was to put technical experts and high-level delegates together with children, adolescents and youth, so as to dialogue directly and publicly on issues, constraints, needs and hopes of young people.
At the opening ceremony of the UNICEF-supported seminar, youths from Henan Province who had been orphaned by AIDS presented an album of their stories and artwork to high-level delegates, including Party Secretary-General of Henan Xu Guangchun; Chinese Minister of Civil Affairs Li Xueju, and the Governor of Henan Province Li Chengyu.
'Moving in the right direction' Today's meeting, co-chaired by French Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Human Rights Rama Yade, was attended by a number of high-level delegates and the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, Radhika Coomaraswamy.
To ensure quick decision-making, a high level of delegated authority would be vested in the fund's chief executive officer in relation to allocations to specific crises.
One informant at the national level insisted that: "It (task shifting) motivates and create challenging environment especially if high level tasks are delegated to lower level cadres.
"I guess we're close to 70%, and we're gonna end at a very high level, and get a lot more delegates than anybody projected, even in their wildest imagination".
