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The representative of the International Coordinating Committee noted that the human rights of women and trafficking had an increasingly high profile in the work of the committee, which now had access to the Commission on the Status of Women, and that the level at which gender was integrated into the work of a national human rights institution was also taken into account in the accreditation process.

Zhu Feng, at Beijing University’s Centre for International and Strategic Studies, said the likes of PetroChina had sometimes pursued profits at the expense of broader national interests: “These state-owned companies have become very powerful interest groups.

The Declaration adopted at the conference identified a number of areas where UNIDO was contributing to the commitments of the Brussels Programme of Action; called on UNIDO to play a pioneering role in assisting the least developed countries in producing products that conformed to acceptable international standards; and called on UNIDO to hold such ministerial conferences on a more regular basis.

Yet the South Korean representative, at this meeting, took a confrontational approach in his remarks, failing to mention a single word about dialogue towards the settlement of the nuclear issue on the Korean peninsula.

The General Conference of UNESCO by 35 C/Resolution 46 resolved to take the pioneering and ever-pertinent message of Tagore, Neruda and Césaire as the starting point for engaging the Organization in substantial reflection and renewed action on a universal reconciled with diversity in keeping with UNESCO’s intellectual watch mandate within the United Nations system so as to promote peace in the minds of men, in line with the Organization’s Constitution.

Information received from UNOCI indicates that the armed group consisted of 15 to 17 men — both Ivorians and Liberians — armed with AK-47s and handmade 12-gauge shotguns.

The Libyan Arab Jamahiriya referred to its pioneering experience in the field of wealth distribution and labour rights.