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It was immediately clear from the information on the implementation of the decentralization strategy that it should not be seen as the dismantling of a centralized bloc, but rather as the establishment of new arrangements based on the system concept.

At its fourth meeting, the Commission examined item 5.6 focusing simultaneously on the proposal to create the three centres: Proposal for the establishment of a regional centre for underwater archaeology (Zadar, Croatia); Proposal for the establishment in China of a world heritage training and research institute for the Asia and the Pacific region; Proposal for the establishment of an institute for African culture and international understanding at the Olusegun Obasanjo presidential library in Abeokuta (Ogun State, Nigeria).

There is a pressing need to create a [...] [...]

The Commission noted that the Subregional Office coordinated the activities under the United Nations Special Programme for the Economies of Central Asia (SPECA) which was supported by ESCAP and the Economic Commission for Europe and covered five Central Asian economies as well as Afghanistan and Azerbaijan.

Others interesting cities are; Murat, where walking around its medieval streets and ramparts is very pleasant, St Flour, a medieval town of some importance, rivalling Aurillac as the capital of the department but also Chaudes–Aigues, a spa town where the hot springs are used to treat rheumatism and provide an under floor heating system for most of the houses and the swimming pool.

The United Kingdom strongly believes that a strong and stable Iraq that is at peace with its neighbours and has taken its rightful place in the international community will make a crucial contribution to strategic stability and peace throughout the Middle East.

This included: (a) in 2005, Agrenska participated in the launch of ICORD and authorized the start of a network of centres that worked in the field of family programmes; (b) the Ministry built the centre after a visit to the Agrenska Centre in Gothenburg during 2008 and started a cooperation between the two centres; (c) in October 2007, Queen Silvia of Sweden, together with the First Lady of Estonia, Mrs. Ilves, inaugurated the Eesti Agrenska centre for families who have children with disabilities; Eesti Agrenska is situated in Tammistu, outside Tartu, in Estonia; the centre works in close cooperation with the Agrenska Foundation in Sweden; (d) the University Hospital in Newcastle in Australia started a family programme in line with the Agrenska model; (e) in order to start a better cooperation between the Nordic countries in the field of rare disorders, a project was started in which Mr. Olauson participated as a resource person.

Days after the release of the draft, the Information Office of the State Council released China’s first White Paper on “Energy Conditions and Policies”, which, unlike the draft energy law, is available in English and geared to an international audience, “White Paper”, op. cit.

This Act also provides for the establishment of two centres under the authority of the Royal Disability Foundation.

We believe that it would not be overstating the case to say that the Palestinian people, the peoples of the region and virtually the entire international community have joined in an appeal to the Council at this moment to do justice by Palestine and fulfil its role in the attainment of a just, comprehensive and lasting solution that will finally make peace and security a reality between Palestine and Israel and throughout the Middle East.

The location of the region of the dead is a subject of controversy among Assyriologists, while the suggestion of a brighter hope in the form of a resurrection (or rather of a return to earth) from the dead, which some would infer from the belief in the "waters of life" and from references to Marduk, or Merodach, as "one who brings the dead to life", is an extremely doubtful conjecture.

Pursuant to Security Council resolution 1373 (2001), a Central Counter-Terrorism Service operates within the police force (Ministry of the Interior and Public Security), and the Central Intelligence Service within the Office of the President of the Republic has set up a dedicated counter-terrorism unit in accordance with the Memorandum of Understanding on the Regional Counter-Terrorism Strategy of the East African Countries, signed in Kenya on 6 August 2004.

Her vision was simple: to provide a centre in Montreal that would welcome handicapped children from all over Quebec.

When students fail to complete their degree there are not only direct costs to the student and the university, but also opportunity costs, since the student who left was filling a space that might have been occupied by a student who would have graduated.

Since its establishment, the Working Group has transmitted four cases to the Government; of those, two cases have been clarified on the basis of information provided by the Government, one was discontinued and one remains outstanding.

Cyprus provided an overview of best practices in the fight against economic fraud and identity-related crime, including the organization of lectures to members of the various criminal investigation departments; the recruitment of specialists; the improvement of and increase in inter-agency coordination and cooperation with States and organizations in terms of information-sharing and training police officers; the enhancement of the administrative capacity of specialized law enforcement units; the establishment of a crime analysis office equipped with the appropriate software and technology; and the application of a central computerized system for producing data reports on serious and minor offences.

Several of those countries continued to face a variety of challenges and, given their fragile economic fabric, some of them might be downgraded to low-income category unless something was done.

The secretariat maintains a Central Data Repository, which is comprised of the following core data sets: a sea floor massive sulphides database; a cobalt-rich ferromanganese crusts database; a polymetallic nodules database; a web-based geographical information system (GIS); the library catalogue; a bibliographic database; and a seabed patents database.

[...] [...] hospitals; 800 centres and 11,000 persons were polled.

Other representatives raised questions such as whether regional clearing houses would be more efficient than a centralized clearing house, or whether virtual halon banking could be introduced.

Nonetheless, the data available show that in 21 low-fertility countries (including Australia, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lebanon, the Netherlands, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden) and in 5 intermediate-fertility countries (Algeria, Botswana, Cape Verde, Namibia and South Africa) over 30 per cent of women have never been married.

Beijing Unicom’s 10010 client service system, as merged, consists of three centers, namely Dongsi, Wukesong and Silicon Valley, to ensure pairwise relay and interconnection between the three platforms by expanding interconnection and relay capacity, building a set of NIRC network call center composed of the three centers and realizing across-network balance and load sharing of 10010 and 10060 telephone traffic as well as some disaster recovery and backup functions.

When all of the resultant data has been standardized in a central database it should be reviewed to assess the biogeography of the Zone, the areas of particular environmental interest and used to assist the environmental management of the region.

[...] [...] and for the Middle East as a whole.

Pending the establishment of such a zone, NAM demands that Israel, the only country in the region that has neither joined the NPT nor declared its intention to do so, renounce possession of nuclear weapons, accede to the NPT without delay, and promptly place all its nuclear facilities under the comprehensive safeguards of the International Atomic Energy Agency.

In paragraph 2 (a) of the annex to resolution 58/316, the General Assembly decided, inter alia, that the agenda of the Assembly should be organized under headings corresponding to the priorities of the Organization, as contained in each medium-term plan or in the strategic framework, as appropriate, with an additional heading for “Organizational, administrative and other matters”, for the purpose of giving a sense of structure to the work of the Assembly.

On the other end of the spectrum, the 12 Central European and Baltic States that are members of the European Union (EU) as well as the Mediterranean countries are facing the challenge of using IP for economic development in a more competitive environment.

In particular, the Committee notes that of the 34 Professional level posts being proposed for abolition in the budget as a whole, 20 come from three regional economic commissions, namely, the Economic Commission for Europe (ECE), ESCAP and ECLAC.