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More and more children are participating in year-round sports without seasonal breaks, which allow for the necessary rest and repair of the body.

The high numbers of escapes from military and civilian prisons that have occurred throughout the year – many of them under suspicious circumstances – continue to be a major challenge in the fight against impunity.

Under the previous system, the Administrative Tribunal operated on a part-time basis and met in two sessions per year, while under the new system, the Dispute Tribunal operates on a full-time, year-round basis and the Appeals Tribunal meets in three sessions per year.

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That number of UNMIT police will be maintained through mid-2012, until after the elections, when a rapid drawdown is envisaged, taking into account the situation on the ground and the outcome of an independent assessment of the national police (see S/2010/522, para. 60) as well as that of a United Nations-led police expert assessment, to be conducted subsequently, to consider the UNMIT police reconfiguration for the remainder of the Mission’s mandate.

I propose to supplement the comprehensive biennial programme performance report with an interim report on the progress made by the Secretariat towards achievement of expected results at the end of the first year of each biennium.

As crisis in the Syrian Arab Republic enters its third year, UNICEF correspodent Priyanka Pruthi reports on the growing tragedy that has put a country at the brink of losing a generation to war.

The rite of initiation into Brahminism was conferred on male children only, when they began their studies under a Brahmin teacher, which took place generally in the eighth year [...] [...]

[...] [...] Argentina, indicated that he had received a letter in the afternoon [...] [...]

[...] [...] to delete the remainder of the first sentence of that paragraph starting from the words “particularly as it relates” received support.

[...] [...] — in which we have participated for 12 consecutive years, and the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti, in which we are entering our seventh year, although the United Nations military presence in Haiti dates back to 1994.

Congolese export statistics and Rwandan customs documents show that after dropping to about a fifth of pre-suspension levels in 2011,29 mineral exports from the Kivus and Maniema in the first trimester of 2012 reached a third of pre-suspension levels.

[...] [...] for the first decade of the twenty-first century.

As indicated in the report (ibid., para. 7), although there have been some technical delays in the work related to the proof-of-concept library, owing mainly to the decision to separate procurement of the digital media asset management system from that of the permanent broadcast facility, the Department expects that the funds allocated for 2008–2009 will be fully committed by the end of 2009, or in the early part of 2010 (see para. 51 below).

the negative health effects of early pregnancy and early childbearing, acknowledging the direct health benefit of school attendance for young girls, in the light of the link between years of school attendance and delay in childbirth, including evidence that each additional year of schooling delays the age at which a girl has her first child by approximately six to ten months and that each year of schooling reduces by 14 per cent the likelihood of a girl under 18 having a child, to 23 per cent

In this connection, the Advisory Committee was provided with a table (see table VIII.8) showing the lease expiry, estimated annual rental costs and square footage of all United Nations leased properties, distinguishing between longterm leases concluded by the Facilities Management Service, capital master plan swing spaces, Facilities Management Service leases in the capital master plan swing spaces and properties leased by Facilities Management Service for the Umoja project.

From childhood on, poverty damages the health of human beings and jeopardizes their chances to learn and to obtain decent work.

[...] [...] Subcommittee, in 2009, the Joint Expert Group of the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), established by the Subcommittee at its forty-fourth session, in 2007, had completed, one year ahead of the schedule [...] [...]

Section 620q of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 provides that a country falling six months behind on debt repayments becomes ineligible for further U.S. economic and military assistance.

The Secretariat has also been working constantly to increase its accountability for delivering results, at both the staff and organizational levels, for example by publishing the compacts of senior managers and the annual assessments of their performance towards achieving the objectives contained therein, as well as issuing and publishing on the Secretariat Intranet an interim programme performance report covering the first year of the biennium 2008-2009.

(d) the root of the problem lay in the practical impossibility to carry out the monitoring of the implementation of the programme and budget of UNESCO within the deadlines flowing from the present biennial cycle which does not allow for sufficient feedback from lessons learned for the elaboration of a subsequent C/5 document; to remedy this problem, one could study the viability of a triennial programming cycle which would provide for the holding of two sessions of the General Conference during a three-year period, with the first being devoted to the approval of the programme and budget and the other to the holding of ministerial and other round table meetings resulting in new visions and initiatives, thereby allowing the General Conference to perform its role as an organ of reflection about the future of the Organization.

[...] [...] President, in consultation with the Director-General and with the Chairperson of the Executive Board, establish an ad hoc working group whose mandate would be to examine the relations between the three organs of UNESCO and recommend [...] [...]

The importance of the Account in creating this link was underscored in an evaluative review of the Account during its tenth year of operation (see report of the Secretary-General on the Development Account (A/62/466)).

Recognizing that many Governments may not have met all the goals and objectives of the Programme of Action by 2014, we strongly support the call for Governments to recommit themselves at the highest level to achieving these goals and objectives and to reaffirm the Programme of Action, upholding its principles, and its key actions for their further implementation [...] [...]

(b) To take note of the signature on 13 December 2009 by the General Secretariat of the League of Arab States of a memorandum of understanding [...] [...]