As regards the organizational structure and arrangements for the project, the Committee was assured that the structure and composition of the project steering committee, whose membership included the heads of the major departments involved in or affected by the project, would promote coherence and facilitate the smooth implementation of the project.

The heads of delegations of the following Member States: Australia, Austria, Barbados, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, Colombia, Comoros, Croatia, Cuba, Czech Republic, Dominican Republic, Egypt, France, Gabon, Ghana, Grenada, Jordan, Kuwait, Lithuania, Madagascar, Malaysia, Nepal, Netherlands, Pakistan, Philippines, Poland, Republic of Korea, Romania, Saint Lucia, Senegal, South Africa, Spain, Syrian Arab Republic, Tunisia, United States of America, Yemen.

States must respect and promote the rights of children living in poverty, including by strengthening and allocating the necessary resources to child protection strategies and programmes, with a particular focus on marginalized children, such as street children, child soldiers, children with disabilities, victims of trafficking, child heads of households and children living in care institutions, all of whom are at a heightened risk of exploitation and abuse.

A special trust fund has been established to support the office, and extrabudgetary funds have been secured and are available to support one P-5 post, the incumbent of which would head the Office, as well as one locally recruited General Service post for an initial period of 12 months.

The high-level meeting convened on HIV/AIDS in southern Africa where Ministers of Finance, Health and Education from Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia, Swaziland and Lesotho met together with nine United Nations system Executive Heads, had the objectives of identifying key challenges facing these countries in scaling up their national responses to HIV/AIDS and defining the role of the United Nations system in supporting national efforts.

The representative of the Russian Federation expressed confidence that all heads of subregional offices would plan and implement activities according to the priorities and tasks incorporated in the strategic framework of the Commission and approved by the member States.

In addition to the existing structure and given the size and complexity of the Operation’s activities, it is proposed to reassign to the Office of the Chief of Staff a Deputy Chief of Staff (D-1) post to support the Chief of Staff in ensuring integration of the overall management of the Operation, and a Head of Office (P-5) post in Zalingei, owing to the strategic and security importance of the subsector in the overall scheme of the conflict in Western Darfur.

The Commission applauded the head of the Subregional Office for North and Central Asia for his leadership and efficient work, which had resulted in the Office becoming fully operational at an early stage, and reiterated the support of member States for the work currently carried out by the Office in accordance with the mandates given to it by the member States.

Subject to Section 88 of the Act and Bye-law 153A, a printed copy of the Directors’ report, accompanied by the balance sheet and profit and loss account, including every document required by law to be annexed thereto, made up to the end of the applicable financial year and containing a summary of the assets and liabilities of the Company under convenient heads and a statement of income and expenditure, together with a copy of the Auditors’ report, shall be sent to each person entitled thereto at least twenty-one (21) days before the date of the annual general meeting and laid before the Company in annual general meeting in accordance with the requirements of the Act provided that this Bye-law shall not require a copy of those documents to be sent to any person whose address the Company is not aware of or to more than one of the joint holders of any shares or debentures.

At the same meeting, speaking on behalf of the Rio Group, the representative of Chile: reiterated the Group’s support for the legitimate rights of Argentina in the sovereignty dispute with the United Kingdom; recalled its declaration and special communiqué on the exploration for fossil fuels on the continental shelf around the Islands, adopted by the Heads of State and Government of Latin America and the Caribbean gathered at the Unity Summit held in Mexico on 22 and 23 February 2010; rejected the military activities of the United Kingdom in the Islands, which ran counter to the region’s policy of seeking a solution to the dispute through peaceful means; and also recalled the declaration on that matter that had been adopted in Santiago in October 2010 (see A/C.4/66/SR.2).

We, the Heads of Arab States and Governments who, on 19 January 2011, are gathered together in the Egyptian city of Sharm el-Sheikh at the second session of the Arab Economic, Development and Social Summit, hereby renew our complete commitment to the development strategies that were approved at the Kuwait Summit on 19 and 20 January 2009, and affirm that we will advance the human, economic, social and technological development of our Arab societies and will activate and develop our joint Arab action mechanisms, under the aegis of the League of Arab States, with a view to ensuring a better future for our peoples and for future generations.

The aim of the high-level interactive thematic debates was to bring together Heads of States and Governments, key ministers and senior officials, heads of United Nations agencies and the Bretton Woods institutions, eminent development personalities, chief executive officers and heads of private sector and civil society umbrella organizations in a multi-stakeholder discussion on the above-mentioned themes, which are crucial in shaping the least developed countries’ development strategy in the next decade.

No person other than a Director retiring at the meeting shall, unless recommended by the Directors for election, be eligible for election as a Director at any general meeting unless a Notice signed by a Member (other than the person to be proposed) duly qualified to attend and vote at the meeting for which such Notice is given of his intention to propose such person for election and also a Notice signed by the person to be proposed of his willingness to be elected shall have been lodged at the head office or at the Registration Office provided that the minimum length of the period, during which such Notice(s) are given, shall be at least seven (7) days and that the period for lodgment of such Notice(s) shall commence no earlier than the day after the despatch of the notice of the general meeting appointed for such election and end no later than seven (7) days prior to the date of such general meeting.

In accordance with subparagraphs 4 (d) and (e) of article 11 of the statute of the Joint Inspection Unit (General Assembly resolution 31/192, annex): when a report concerns only one organization, the report and the comments of the executive head thereon shall be transmitted to the competent organ of that organization not later than three months after receipt of the report for consideration at the next meeting of the competent organ; and, when a report concerns more than one organization, the report, together with the joint comments and any comments of the respective heads on the matters that concern their particular organization, shall be ready for submission to the competent organs of the organizations not later than six months after receipt of the Unit’s report for consideration at the next meeting of the competent organs concerned.

(c) A certificate by a Director (including for the purpose of this paragraph (c) an alternate Director) or the Secretary that a Director (who may be the one signing the certificate) was at the time of a resolution of the Directors or any committee thereof absent from the territory of the Head Office or otherwise not available or unable to act or has not supplied an address, telephone and facsimile number within the territory of the Head Office for the purposes of giving of notice to him shall in favour of all persons without express notice to the contrary, be conclusive of the matter so certified.

Despite the Group having been granted the right of first refusal for the development of Phase II of the WIT Port by the PRC joint venture partners who are Wuhan government agencies at inception of the WIT project, the signing of the Heads of Agreement in 2005 (together with a supplemental agreement in April 2007) and the subsequent approval of the development plan by the Central Government for the Group to take a 44% equity interest in the Phase II development with the rest of the interest to be taken up by the two PRC Joint Venture partners of WIT, negotiations of the terms of the joint venture agreement have grinded to a halt resulting in the Group not being able to participate in the development of the project as intended.

The Commission also noted the reservations of the European Community and Norway on MRLs for carbaryl (008) in citrus fruit; fusilazole (165) in edible offal, apples and pear; dimethoate (027) in peppers and lettuce; malathion (049) in wheat; methomyl (094) in grapes and tomato; cypermethrins (118) in cauliflower, scarole, apples and peaches; and cyhalothrin (146) in apricots, broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage head, milk, nectarines, peaches, tomatoes, peppers sweet, and corn for reasons presented in CAC/32 LIM/16.

(2) To be valid, forms of proxy and the power of attorney or other authority (if any) under which it is signed or a notarially certified copy of that power of attorney must be deposited at the head office and principal place of business of the Company at 11th Floor, High Fashion Centre, 1–11 Kwai Hei Street, Kwai Chung, New Territories, Hong Kong not less than 48 hours before the time appointed for holding the meeting or any adjournment thereof.

During the high-level segment statements were made by heads of delegation of the following parties, listed in the order in which they spoke: Madagascar, China, United States of America, the European Union and its member States, Zambia, Bolivia, Japan, Ukraine, Indonesia, Holy See, Burundi, Fiji, Cambodia, Zimbabwe, Nigeria, Brazil, Jordan, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of), Iran (Islamic Republic of), Kenya, Uganda, Maldives, Nepal, Sudan, Kiribati, Yemen, Guinea, Philippines, Mozambique, Croatia, Dominican Republic, Malawi, United Republic of Tanzania, Serbia, Timor-Leste, Canada, Bangladesh, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Pakistan, Iraq, Nicaragua, Malaysia, Mongolia, Palau, Panama, Côte d’Ivoire, Chile and India.

Still on the subject of the English version, though not in relation to a term used in the previous texts, since it does not appear in them, we feel that an unfortunate adjective is used in the heading of section II B.3: perhaps the phrase would be equally satisfactory with the deletion of the word “substantive”.

In order to avoid perceived risks (particularly in Headquarters programme divisions) that this might encourage a return to unfocused and scattered activities, this innovation is based on the very clear precondition that each office head has committed, as part of the corollary accountability requirements, to a performance agreement that will prevent any loosening of linkages with the major expected results on the higher programming levels.

The meeting was attended by the Secretary-General, the Head of State of Panama, the Prime Minister of Croatia, the Foreign Ministers of Belgium, South Africa, Indonesia, Italy and France, the Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation, the Minister of State for Africa, Asia and United Nations Affairs of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, as well as the Permanent Representatives of Viet Nam, the United States of America, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya and Costa Rica and the Deputy Permanent Representative of China.

The interactive thematic debates were conducted by high-level officials who comprised Heads of States, prime ministers, vice-presidents, ministers, eminent personalities, heads of United Nations agencies, and representatives of the business community and civil society.

Fifty-first and fifty-fourth sessions of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs; chaired national European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction focal point meetings twice a year, Lisbon (2006-2011); European Union-Turkey dialogue meeting during the Hungarian presidency of the Union, as head of the Turkish delegation, Brussels (2011); Pompidou Group: Research Platform meeting (2007) and ministerial meeting (2006), Paris and Strasbourg; forty-first meeting of the Subcommission on Illicit Drug Traffic and Related Matters in the Near and Middle East, Amman (2006); United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Expert Assessment Meeting on utilizing Iranian borders within the framework of the Paris Pact, Islamic Republic of Iran (2005); International Narcotics Control Board combined meetings on Operation Topaz and Operation Purple, Mexico City (2005).

Currently, as Head of Mission in Brussels responsible for overall management of the Embassy and spearheading its various activities; articulating strategic and operational plans for implementation of national foreign policy; drafting of policy papers and country statements; representing Bangladesh in various meetings, conferences and seminars in the European Commission and the European Parliament; networking with the think tanks and civil society, including women’s organizations.