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It is hoped that these platforms will also generate [...] [...]

The “moving forward” plenary looked into the long-term prospects of science and concurrent policy challenges during the coming years.

[...] donation of telescope facilities and a planetarium by the official development assistance programme of Japan, as well as the provision of technical assistance by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan and [...] [...]

While hoping that the new capital injection by a Taiwanese tycoon would help [...] [...]

As part of the e-Morocco national strategy, drawn up by the Government of Morocco, the Rabat Office is providing support to the programmes being implemented by the Minister of Economic and General Affairs in the field of e-government, and has funded a roadmap on local governance in Morocco with a view to collecting information on all local e-govenance initiatives in the country, identifying and analysing similar programmes in other countries, and analysing and summarizing the strengths and weaknesses of those initiatives.

[...] [...] intersectoral platform for anticipation and foresight [...] [...]

Other achievements under the Convention have included the adoption of Act No. 29478, which deals with the provision of facilities to enable persons with disabilities to vote; Act No. 29524 on Deafblind Persons, which recognizes deafblindness as a single disability; Administrative Decision No. 0269-2009 of the National Identity and Civil Status Registry (RENIEC), which establishes that national identity documents are to be issued free of charge to persons with disabilities and provides for expedited procedures for persons, especially children, who do not have a birth certificate; and legislation on health-care provisions for members of the armed forces and police.

(c) Communication of incoming climate change information and requests for input and programmes with relevant stakeholders at the national level.

He also asked how she planned to work with regional organizations and how those organizations and the regional human rights mechanisms could facilitate the implementation of existing international treaties.

Thailand would be interested in finding out about institutional arrangements among relevant domestic institutions in implementing the Programme of Action.

Her delegation also requested more information about programmes to combat trafficking in persons as well as how the Office saw coordination of its work with other United Nations human rights mechanisms, including the United Nations gender architecture and various rapporteurs and special representatives.

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The Commission was informed of initiatives that were being undertaken by Pacific island developing countries to protect biodiversity [...] [...]

With the introduction of the interim constitution, an interim parliament has been constituted which presents new opportunities for working more closely with the government, particularly at the local levels.

[...] the author still hopes that, while the system of institutional democracy is developing in Taiwan society, the [...]

Furthermore, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Lithuania introduced rules that all public websites must be accessible to all citizens and comply with the requirements stipulated in the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) adopted by the World Wide Web Consortium.

In order to contribute to the United Nations system’s joint response on climate change, UNESCO has responded rapidly with a Strategy for Action on Climate Change (181 EX/15) and its Enhanced Plan of Action (182 EX/INF.7) as well as the more recent Director-General’s Initiative on Climate Change, focusing through the Intersectoral Platform on Action to Address Climate Change on UNESCO’s core areas of action with regard to GCC, many of them of a long-standing nature.

[...] [...] poverty and the Typhoon Committee and [...] [...]

In addition, the Jamaica Defence Force had put in place revised rules of engagement, focusing on a further reduction in civilian deaths.

Both for the External Auditor, in the framework of his risk assessment and the establishment of his audit plans, and for governing bodies in their need to have a picture of trends in management improvements in the Organization, surely the most important thing is to know whether a recommendation has been fully implemented and will yield all the expected results or whether decisions or activities are still required in order to achieve the goal set by the External Auditor.

During the hill fire season from every September to the following April and after considering various environmental factors (such as humidity, wind speed and festive customs), the AFCD will, as necessary, deploy staff to carry out 24-hour hill fire monitoring in order to detect hill fires as early as possible and arrange fire crews to station at various country park management centres round the clock so that they could be deployed to put out hill fires at the outset of an outbreak.

The Office of Internal Oversight Services initiated quality assurance and improvement initiatives and quality reviews in each subprogramme to ensure that the highest standards of quality are consistently met.

There is also a special plan that aims to ensure the proper implementation of the Presidential Programme on Health, Education and Nutrition, which in turn is intended as a strategy to ensure that indigenous and Afro-Honduran inhabitants who meet the eligibility requirements receive the benefits of the project, in a culturally appropriate manner.

From the top of the lookout, which is promoted for the New Year’s sunrise spectacle, we could view black smoke rising from the reactor 4 and the Pacific Ocean into which a vast amount of contaminated water was leaking.