Several weeks ago, for example, when civil unrest rocked the country, the clinic in Port-au-Prince’s Canape Vert district found itself in desperate need of new supplies.

In implementing UNESCO’s decision to work with the African Union/New Partnership for Africa’s Development (AU/NEPAD) mandate, the Windhoek and Harare Offices are collaborating more closely in working with the countries of the Southern African Development Community (SADC).

Awareness-raising of the importance of freedom of expression and freedom of information has resulted in recognition in the Accra Agenda for Action, as well in the outcome documents of the meeting on media and development held jointly by the AU and the European Commission, in Burkina Faso in 2008, of the important role that free media plays in development, democracy and dialogue.

The Ministers supported AU’s call to the Security Council to provide greater support to AMISOM and fully assume its responsibilities towards Somalia and its people, including the imposition of a naval blockade and no-fly zone to prevent the entry into Somalia of foreign fighters and the delivery of ammunitions and equipment to the armed groups opposed to the TFG and the deployment of a UN Peacekeeping operation to take over from AMISOM and to support the long-term stabilization and reconstruction of Somalia.

Although there was a decline in the number of child abductions prior to the earthquake owing to the arrest of armed elements and gang leaders involved in child abduction by the Haitian National Police in close cooperation with the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) (89 cases in 2008; 21 cases in 2009), the numbers increased slightly in 2010, with 27 children (including 13 girls) abducted for ransom or for assault, including by armed elements, predominantly in Port-au-Prince.

A woman holds her two children in the nutrition center of the General Hospital in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

The transition from the Economic Community of West African States Mission in Liberia to the United Nations Mission in Liberia, the deployment of the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur, and the upcoming establishment of a United Nations peacekeeping mission in Somalia as the follow-on force to the African Union Mission in Somalia, the Security Council’s adoption of resolution 1809 (2008), the meeting with the AU Peace and Security Council last April (see S/PV.5868) and the prompt establishment of the African Union-United Nations panel last September all testify not only to the necessity but also to the viability of this cooperation.

We hope that today’s debate and high-level participation, together with the draft resolution to be adopted later (S/2012/25) will further concretize the modalities of AU-United Nations cooperation and pave the way of constructive collaboration.

Furthermore, following the decision of the MOCC to adopt a comprehensive AU-United Nations public relations strategy for AMISOM operations, the AU Commission, with the support of the United Nations, is developing a mechanism to establish an overarching public relations strategy that would sufficiently service the strategic, operational and tactical levels.

But by mid-2007, China helped secure the government’s consent to a three-phase deployment of a UN-AU peacekeeping operation (UNAMID).

The African Union Commission expresses its deep regret that both the statements and the decisions grossly ignore and make no reference whatsoever to the obligations of the two countries to the African Union arising from decisions Assembly/AU/Dec.245(XIII) adopted by the thirteenth ordinary session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government, wherein the Assembly “Decide[d] that in view of the fact that the request by the African Union has never been acted upon (by the United Nations Security Council), the African Union Member States shall not cooperate pursuant to the provisions of article 98 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court relating to immunities for the arrest and surrender of President Omer Al-Bashir of the Sudan”, which decision was reiterated (decision Assembly/AU/Dec.296(XV) at the fifteenth ordinary session of the Assembly in July 2010 in Kampala, Uganda.

In the area of governance, UNDP supports the peace and security agenda of the AU, including support to the South Sudan process and to the small arms and light weapons (SALW) initiatives of the RECs.

(c) the HA will use vacated departmental quarters for PRH development such as ex-Shatin Police and Firemen Quarters, ex-Cheung Sha Wan Police Quarters, ex-Kwai Chung Police Quarters and ex-Au Tau Departmental Quarters.

This included the establishment of the NEPAD Planning and Coordinating Agency (NPCA) as a technical body of the AU to replace the NEPAD secretariat.

UNCTAD participated in the summit and aims to support the AU Commission and UN-ECA in implementing the action plan in the future.

At meetings with donors, the Independent Expert was sometimes left with the impression that this concern was not necessarily considered a priority; yet, the need to rebuild Port-au-Prince presents a unique opportunity to demonstrate that the discrimination suffered by persons with disabilities is a thing of the past.

A 10% strengthening of HK$ against AUD at the reporting date would decrease in equity and profit or increase in loss by the amount shown above.

In accordance with Bye-law 100(A) of the Company’s Bye-laws, Mr. Chow Wai Wai, John, Mr. Au Hing Lun, Dennis, Mr. Kwok Ping Luen, Raymond, Mr. Hong Pak Cheung, William and Mr. Yeung Kit Shing, Jackson will retire by rotation at the forthcoming annual general meeting and, being eligible, offer themselves for re-election.

It has also made it possible for Uganda and her citizens to be a major player in UN and AU peace support missions; e.g. AMISOM, UNAMID and UNAMIS; as well as in regional efforts to address the problem of the terrorist groups in the region.

Based on geological, structural, and alteration mapping combined with assay results of grab samples THL believes License 13602X has the potential to be a world-class epithermal polymetallic ( Ag, Au, Pb, Cu) deposits.

Combining the resources of the Bureau of Public Information (BPI), the Office of Monthly Periodicals (OPM), the Audiovisual Section (BPI/AUD) and a new web unit, the new public information strategy launched in January 2002, will make it possible to identify all, or nearly all, of the initiatives suitable for mediatization, transform them into words and images so that the press can disseminate them and increase the number of media with which UNESCO maintains regular contact, in all regions of the world.

The school milk programme will continue in Port au Prince, not only providing essential food to 43,000 children in 2011, but giving them an incentive to attend school.

Taking a socially more differentiating look at the wins and losses, it appears that companies – Chinese, EU and other foreign investors – are “winners, while workers are losers, albeit to different degrees under different time frames” (Au, 2006).

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With UNICEF support, the AU had been able to enhance the capacity of the Committee and to issue a report on the state of Africa’s children in 2008 and 2010 which showed an emerging trend to mainstream the rights and welfare of children into broader national and regional development frameworks.

These systems were set up with UNDP support and helped ensure that when hurricane Tomas hit, a national DPC Emergency Operation Centre in Port-au-Prince and 10 local centres and their trained staff were able to keep the population informed about emerging risks.

The officer also dismissed the allegation that the health services in Haiti were not equipped to replace the complainant’s pacemaker batteries, noting that access to medical care was less difficult in Port-au-Prince, the complainant’s hometown.

Save as disclosed above, there are no other matters concerning Mr. Au’s re-designation that need to be brought to the attention of the shareholders of the Company nor is there any information required to be disclosed pursuant to the requirements of Rules 13.51(2)(h) to (v) of the Listing Rules.

Conscious also of the huge material losses sustained in respect of homes and basic infrastructures in the capital, Port-au-Prince, and elsewhere in the country, and expressing concern over the medium- and long-term social, economic and development impacts of the disaster on the affected country