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This is particularly critical because WIPO’s contribution to the MDGs is a joint responsibility of both the Member States and the Secretariat.

The Committee further notes from the information provided to it that this activity is financed from both the regular budget and extrabudgetary resources (the support account for peacekeeping operations and programme support income received as reimbursement for services provided by the central administration).

[...] resulted in progress on two fronts: greater outreach [...] [...]

These arrangements, formal and informal, allow for structured dialogue, more predictable relationships, information exchanges, knowledge and good practice sharing, and improved cooperation and understanding of each others’ structures, procedures, strengths and constraints for the mutual benefit of both organizations.

Brussels and Washington, while maintaining that an easing of the measures must still be tied to reform, insist they are willing to be flexible in their approach, but neither has presented a thorough assessment of how the measures have or can in current circumstances usefully contribute to reform.

The success of the country, based on the political, economic and social system that had been freely chosen by its people, was significant, both in civil and political rights and in economic, social and cultural rights.

The Beijing Statement on Combating Desertification and Promoting Sustainable Development (see E/CN.17/2008/15, annex I) recognizes the importance of forests in both preventing desertification and land degradation as well as in rehabilitating degraded lands; it also states that the implementation of the forest instrument provides a framework for advancing sustainable forest management and its contribution to combating desertification, mitigating climate change and preserving forest biological diversity.

The Working Group will have before it, and may wish to use as a basis for its consideration, notes by the Secretariat concerning (a) Interpretation and application of selected concepts of the UNCITRAL Model Law on Cross-Border Insolvency relating to centre of main interests (A/CN.9/WG.V/WP.103 and addenda); and (b) Directors’ obligations in the period approaching insolvency (A/CN.9/WG.V/WP.104 and addenda).

One of the documents currently before the committee (A/C.5/63/3/Add.1) was presented as containing the views of Secretariat staff, but in fact it contained views of both management and staff representatives, some of whom were not even part of the Secretariat, as required by General Assembly resolution 35/213 and regulation 8.2 of the Staff Regulations.

[...] [...] favour with the other two parties (see A/C.4/66/SR.3).

His delegation therefore urged the High-Level Task Force on the Global Food Security Crisis to redouble its efforts, through the updated Comprehensive Framework for Action, to better contribute to the twin-track approach in both the short term and the long term and called on its development partners to continue their efforts to fulfil all their commitments, particularly those outlined in the L’Aquila Food Security Initiative.

(b) Address the need for a comprehensive, multisectoral and balanced approach involving demand reduction and supply reduction, each reinforcing the other, together with the appropriate application of the principle of shared responsibility, while stressing the need for services responsible for prevention, including law enforcement agencies, and ensuring that those measures are mainstreamed in publicly and privately provided health, education, rural development, agriculture and social services.

[...] [...] normative and operational aspects of [...]

Concerns were also expressed over transparency, both in terms of decision-making and resource allocation.

[...] [...] prevention and reactive treatment and care.

This issue is raised by both [...] [...]

[...] [...] arguments in courts have been raised in [...] [...]

While their representatives were in Doha, SAF and JEM clashed on the ground in Darfur, with SAF claiming that JEM was moving in Darfur in violation of an alleged understanding between the Government of the Sudan and JEM that the latter would stay in a designated area in Wadi Hawwar, Northern Darfur, only.

(f) and those of (e) of a substantive nature, the Secretariat in cooperation with the national secretariat of the adjourned Committee and, if possible, the Chairperson of that Committee, should agree on the need for such an amendment and prepare a working paper containing the wording of a proposed amendment and the reasons for proposing such amendment, and request comments from Member Governments: (a) on the need to proceed with such an amendment and (b) on the proposed amendment itself.

Perception of risk has both technical and emotional dimensions, and risk communication should address both these aspects.

Most importantly, the adoption and implementation of the WIPO Development Agenda (particularly Recommendation 22) and the efforts to enhance the organization’s RBM framework have both made the MDGs central to WIPO’s work.

The evidence gathered for this study demonstrates that the time has come for States to unambiguously reaffirm, in law and in practice, that secret detention will no longer be acceptable and neither will impunity for such acts be acceptable.

By equating the concept of object with that of purpose, by appending the second action to the first in a legally questionable manner through a reference to “consideration of the second part of the legal action”, and by allowing its attention to be diverted from lack of jurisdiction ratione materiae by considerations relating to article 26 — which could have been applied to the first action (for restitution) — the Committee has made errors of judgement with regard to both the facts and the law.

Indeed, as state enforcement of IPRs is a resource-intensive activity, there is a strong case for developing countries to adopt IPR legislation that emphasises enforcement through a civil rather than a criminal justice system.

As the entity of the Secretariat with prime responsibility for economic and social affairs, the Department is positioned to provide both policy and practical support for the internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals, and its programme of work reflects this (see table 2 for specific examples of how the Department’s subprogrammes have contributed to progress in achieving the Millennium Development Goals.

In 2009, the AAC recommended that a revised IPSASs implementation plan be prepared that includes a risk analysis and mitigation strategy that addresses both accounting and operational risks and identifies relationships with other UNFPA initiatives such as revisions to Atlas, the internal control framework, and the reorganization.

[...] [...] arrests on both sides of Serbian and [...] [...]

[...] will address only two of these, undertaking [...] [...]

For this, as opposed to the narrow view of social protection as safety nets and short-term responses to crises and shocks, a broader perspective of social protection is necessary, involving both social protection and livelihood promotion.