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For budget lines with relatively small amounts, minor variations in the budget may give a large deviation in the “expenditure rate”, even though the impact of such a deviation is negligible in absolute terms.

Another member drew attention to an understanding that, with regard to subparagraph (b) of the proposed decision, the issue the Executive Committee would be considering was whether the amount to be discounted from a country’s starting point should be based on the year or years on which the starting point was based, and not whether or not to make a deduction, as the latter issue had already been decided under decision 61/47.

(b) Staff in the Professional and higher categories and in the Field Service category, and staff in the General Service category considered internationally recruited pursuant to staff rule 4.5 (c), who are appointed or reassigned to a non-family duty station may be paid a non-pensionable additional non-family hardship allowance, unless the Secretary-General has exceptionally approved the presence of eligible dependants of the staff member at the duty station pursuant to staff rule 3.15 (a).

Some members noted that the non-pensionable component relating to the General Service and related categories was being reviewed in the context of the review of the General Service salary survey methodologies and hence, it would be appropriate to take into consideration the recommendations reached therein.

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Finally, in light of the newly adopted limit of 23,000 words (excluding the annexes) for all reports by United Nations expert groups, the Group has sought to identify and target only the most critical and substantive violations of the arms embargo of greatest interest to the Security Council based on the guidance and advice provided by the Committee.

Although the loss reported was insignificant, the concept did not promote the environmental goal of the Protocol: if filling losses were not accounted for, there would be no incentive to CFC producers to reduce such losses and thereby reduce emissions of CFCs into the atmosphere.

(b) Without prejudice to the principle that promotion under staff rule 4.15 shall be the normal means of recognizing increased responsibilities and demonstrated ability, a staff member holding a fixed-term or continuing appointment who is called upon to assume the full duties and responsibilities of a post at a clearly recognizable higher level than his or her own for a temporary period exceeding three months may, in exceptional cases, be granted a non-pensionable special post allowance from the beginning of the fourth month of service at the higher level.

While FAO has estimated the fleet size for another 49 countries for the analysis in this section, no estimation has been made for the remaining 18 countries for which data have never been reported or estimated and whose contribution to the global fishing fleet is considered to be negligible.

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By its decision to politicize the universal periodic review mechanism, Turkey demonstrated that it cannot understand that the members of the two communities in Cyprus have grown mature, through the assessment of their past painful history, and that they now wish to leave the past behind and build a better future in a bizonal, bicommunal federal Cyprus with a single sovereignty, a single international personality, a single citizenship and political equality, as defined in the relevant Security Council resolutions.

Following the presentation, the representative of China said that the party could accept exclusion of 7 of the 9 tonnes nominated for exemption, but exclusion of 2 tonnes manufactured by one company in a remote area of China would create economic, social and human health problems in the locality.

As the coppice plantation matures, the root-shoot ratio tends to decrease to a level close to planted forests. Therefore the carbon stock in below-ground biomass of harvested trees may be conservatively accounted as the level at the moment before harvesting and remain constant until replanting, rather than assumed as a carbon stock loss

In total, without counting the many members of the public who attended the vehicle parade right in the centre of Rio, this 10th Challenge Bibendum attracted more than 6000 visitors, including 1500 Brazilian students, among whom may well have been future engineers who will go on to invent the clean, safe and connected car of tomorrow.

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Announcing that Eritrea, El Salvador, Mali and Ukraine had become sponsors of the draft resolution, he said that no programme budget implications were anticipated.

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The meeting strongly welcomed the advances in results-based programming which should, nonetheless, be further strengthened and refined with a view to achieving a better balance between qualitative and quantitative indicators, complementarity with the expected outcomes of the Medium-Term Strategy and coherence between expected outcomes, expected results, as well as monitoring instruments and reporting standards.

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Environmental factors, such as poorly designed irrigation and water systems, inadequate housing, poor waste disposal and water storage, deforestation and loss of biodiversity, all are regarded as factors contributing to the most common vector-borne diseases, including malaria and dengue.

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Its recommendation was made on the understanding that any regular budget funds appropriated for the Special Court would be refunded to the United Nations at the time of the Court’s liquidation; that no additional subventions for the Special Court were expected; and that the United Nations Secretariat, the Management Committee, the Registrar and other senior officials of the Special Court would intensify their efforts to fund the Court’s activities through voluntary contributions.