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[...] [...] to information and communications technology for DPKO for the coming year; meetings of the Working Group on Emergency Telecommunications and of the Inter-agency Telecommunications Advisory Group to discuss issues related to inter-agency cooperation and the implementation of information and communications technology common services in peacekeeping operations; the annual conference of the Commercial Information Technology for Multinational Operations to improve and facilitate civilian and military interaction in the area of peacemaking, peacekeeping and nation-building.

Chile was the first Latin American country to have an action plan for implementing Security Council resolution 1325 (2000) on women and peace and security, which provides for comprehensive and cross-cutting measures to protect women and girls in armed conflict and encourage their participation in processes of peacebuilding and democracy rebuilding.

[...] (a) deepen its engagement with and support for civil society actors, human rights defenders and minority groups, and ensure their safety, with specific mechanisms in place if necessary, including through supportive public statements on the important role they play in democracy; (b) increase its efforts to tackle poverty and give its attention to the most vulnerable groups in society, including indigenous groups; (c) continue to take measures to tackle the influence of illegal groups, including FARC, ELN and new and reforming armed paramilitary groups such as the Aguilas Negras, and that it does so while conforming to international [...]

[...] [...] political discussions at the local, national and regional levels and by helping political parties in emerging democracies to build their law-making and oversight capacities in areas in which the United Nations provided international cooperation.

[...] [...] lasting peace that would allow to build a better future of the people in the Middle East, guaranteeing the rights of the Palestinian people to live in a free, independent and sovereign State fully exercising their [...]

[...] [...] Secretary-General of the International Institute of Democracy and Electoral Assistance, the Secretary-General emphasized four key elements: (a) gender inequality in decision-making remains a great impediment to democracy; (b) while women’s political participation improves democracy, the reverse is also true: democracy is an incubator for gender equality; (c) gender equality must be treated as an explicit goal of democracy-building, not as an “add on”; and (d) the SecretaryGeneral recommitted the United Nations to a stronger gender perspective across its constellation of entities and activities related to democracy-building.

[...] [...] (WSIS); cultural diversity “of the media” and “in the media”; the promotion of multilingualism; media and a culture of peace; the role of knowledge in societal development; the role of ICTs in building knowledge societies, an area in which the Information for All Programme (IFAP) could play an active role; and support for regulators in Africa.

[...] the Procurator General and Congress to establish strong mechanisms of democratic control of intelligence services, to move forward in establishing data [...] [...]

[...] session, the SHS and SC Commissions examined the resolution proposed in document 35 C/COM SC/DR.1 (submitted by: Austria, Belgium, Plurinational State of Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Congo, Democratic People’s Republic [...] [...]

The representative of Turkey underlined the following points: (a) the organization, Centre Europe-tiers monde had been failing to adhere to the basic principles of the Charter of the United Nations and the basic requirements set out in Council resolution 1996/31 by disrespecting the territorial integrity and political unity of Turkey; (b) the organization had been undertaking unsubstantiated and politically motivated allegations against Turkey; (c) the organization had been inciting and condoning acts of terrorism against States Members of the United Nations, which is prohibited under international law; (d) the organization had become a propaganda vehicle of the terrorist organization PKK/Kongra-Gel; and (e) the organization had not taken into consideration earlier statements of Turkey regarding the need to uphold its obligations and responsibilities under the Charter and Council resolution 1996/31.

[...] [...] recognised refugees, establishment of a legal background that would regulate the integration and its financial support; absence of a placement centre for foreigners that are to be expelled from the Republic of Moldova (the person which was refused the status of refugee, after using all possibilities of appeal, must leave the territory of the Republic of Moldova during 15 days after the final decision on the refusal of the application).

Many Member States identified opportunities for furthering intersectoral cooperation in the following areas: multilingualism; ICTs for education, especially for teacher training; media education; production of diversified and culturally diversified local content; cultural heritage, in particular by strengthening the links between the Memory of the World Programme and the other cultural heritage activities under Major Programme IV; infoethics; and the use of ICTs in human rights and democracy education.

[...] [...] efforts to achieve comprehensive peace based on the vision of a region where two democratic States, Israel and Palestine, live side by side in peace within secure and recognized [...] [...]

The 18th session of the IHP Intergovernmental Council (Paris, 9-13 June 2008) considered a proposal for the establishment of the International Centre of Water Resources and Global Change in the Federal Republic of Germany, which had been endorsed by an out-of-session approval of the IHP Bureau (April 2008), and adopted Resolution XVIII-3 (Annex I), by which, considering the establishment of the proposed Centre as an important contribution [...] [...]

In 20082009, these initiatives entailed very limited financial implications, principally for feasibility studies, the preparation of project proposals or selected pilot activities, including for the creation of a international Biomics (genomics, proteomics and bioinformatics) centre at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot proposed by the Israeli National Commission; the establishment in Tbilisi (Georgia) of [...] [...]

[...] [...] Islands as a special and particular colonial situation involving a sovereignty dispute between the Argentine Republic and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, have established that the way to put an end to that situation is the peaceful and negotiated solution of the sovereignty dispute, and have requested both Governments to continue without delay the bilateral negotiations recommended by the General Assembly and the [...]

Information on the proposal to establish an International Centre for Synchrotron Light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East (SESAME) under the auspices of UNESCO was conveyed to the Executive Board at its 162nd session through an explanatory note submitted by the Permanent Delegation of Jordan to UNESCO (162 EX/49), Jordan being the proposed State to host the Centre, as well as a report by the Director-General complementing the explanatory note and describing UNESCO’s involvement in the project and key achievements attained (162 EX/49 Add.).

With regard to the suggestion in the Secretary-General’s report (A/63/301) that the General Assembly might wish to encourage United Nations specialized agencies and other entities to participate actively in the Ethics Committee on a broad basis and through an open mechanism, the Advisory Committee believed that it was within the purview of the Secretary-General, as Chairman of CEB, to bring [...] [...]

[...] established co-production and cooperation partnerships with a wide range of United Nations organizations and offices, including the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM, now part of UN-Women), the United Nations Democracy Fund, the United [...] [...]

[...] session of the General Assembly in 1974, States Members of the United Nations solemnly proclaimed their “united determination to work urgently for the Establishment of a New International Economic Order based on equity, sovereign equality, interdependence, common interest and cooperation among all States, irrespective of their economic and social systems which shall correct inequalities [...] [...]

In an address to the nation on 15 March, President Ouattara stated that he had accepted the decisions of the African Union Peace and Security Council and outlined his vision, with an emphasis [...] [...]

[...] [...] necessary in a democratic society in the interests of national security [...] [...]

[...] session, the General Assembly, recalling its resolutions 58/176, 59/183, 60/151, 61/158, 62/221 and 63/177, requested the Secretary-General and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to continue to provide additional funds and human resources within the existing resources of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to enable the Subregional Centre for Human Rights and Democracy in Central Africa [...] [...]

[...] [...] persons, a humanitarian issue that the Council has been following for many years, and despite the great efforts that have been made since 2004 by the Tripartite Commission and the Technical Subcommittee, which operates under the auspices of the International Committee of the Red Cross, the remains of only 236 Kuwaiti prisoners out of 605 missing Kuwaiti and third-country nationals have thus far been [...]

[...] [...] authors have included information on the land and the people, the political structure, the foundations of democratic society and the defence of human rights, information and communications and effective legal remedies.

The project “Strengthening Palestinian Participatory Democracy and Dialogue” ($290,000), funded by the United Nations Democracy Funds was successfully completed, while UNESCO’s main partner AMIN Network complemented this project with the International Programme for the Development of Communication funds for 2011; “Citizen Media: a tool for change”, an ongoing project which shall end by March 2012, included workshops on advanced social media techniques [...] [...]