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[...] Maria and numerous distinguished senior public servants [...] [...]

A considerable gulf exists between the rhetoric of the universal application of human rights and the enjoyment of these rights in practice.

Success in this endeavour would be measured not by the beauty of the political statement but by results on the ground, an upward convergence of living standards and a downward convergence of “ecological footprints”.

At its 48th plenary meeting, on 19 November 2009, the General Assembly, on the recommendation of the Fifth Committee,12 appointed the following persons as members of the International Civil Service Commission for a four-year term of office beginning on 1 January 2010: Mr. Minoru Endo, Ms. Lucretia Myers, Mr. Gilberto Paranhos Velloso, Mr. Wolfgang Stöckl and Mr. Gian Luigi Valenza.

By his letter dated 10 February 2012 (S/2012/85), the Secretary-General informed the Security Council that he had appointed to the Group of Experts the following individuals: Mr. Nelson Alusala of Kenya (arms); Mr. Ruben de Koning of the Netherlands (natural resources); Ms. Marie Plamadiala of the Republic of Moldova (customs and aviation); Mr. Steven Spittaels of Belgium (finance); and Mr. Steven Hege of the United States of America (armed groups and Coordinator).

A second direction for new initiatives will probably be found in outreach for raising awareness among the general public on the potential of our planet for future generations and to encourage young people to learn more about our home planet, its powers, its beauty and its challenges.

[...] [...] development and upgrade substantive skills.

Concrete follow-up initiatives have included the organization of specific training sessions with a view to stimulating decision- and policy-makers to enact the right of universal online access to public and government-held records, to identify and promote repositories of information and knowledge in the public domain and to make them accessible to all, as well as to undertake the preservation and digitization of public domain information held by governments.

[...] [...] Small Island Developing States and [...] [...]

A host of concrete proposals were suggested to the coordinators of the Dialogue, such as: dialogue and networking among universities; dialogue among young scientists, involving UNESCO chairholders in dialogue activities; dialogue among student journalists and seasoned media practitioners from both regions; the holding of youth forums; reactivation of the Committee for the Translation of Literary Works and increase in the translation of Arabic works into European languages; a comparative study of school textbooks; dialogue involving professionals from cultural industries; the organization of an interregional conference on the image of Arab-Islamic culture in European history books.

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(c) Ireland is proud of its record in the promotion of human rights at the United Nations, and was honoured by the appointment of the former President of Ireland, Mary Robinson, as United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights from 1997 to 2002.

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