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In paragraphs 10 to 17 of his report (A/64/532), the Secretary-General provides information on the status of implementation and procurement activities, as well as the actual costs of the first phase of the standardized access control project, which involved a total of 10 locations, including United Nations Headquarters at New York, offices away from Headquarters, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.

[...] [...] Agency’s (EPA) offices in the Governorates.

[...] strategy, drawn up by the Government of Morocco, the Rabat Office is providing support to [...] [...]

It is noteworthy that programmes implemented by the Office in the area education focused on the following strategic areas of support, all directly responding to strategies and results contained in Kenya Education Sector Support Programme (KESSP), the education sector’s plan to materialize Vision 2030: strengthening the planning, monitoring and evaluation of the education system through EMIS; enhancing the education sector responses to HIV and AIDS; improving the quality of education for peace programme; and strengthening literacy development through advocacy and technical support to strategic planning.

It also noted that the Subregional Office had built two-way linkages between ESCAP headquarters and member States, established working relations with sectoral ministries and governmental organizations and forged partnerships with financial institutions and intergovernmental organizations based in North and Central Asia.

In follow-up to the recommendations of the Working Group, approved by the Security Council, and subject to and consistent with applicable international law and relevant Security Council resolutions, including Security Council resolution 1612 (2005) and 1882 (2009), I am entrusted, in my capacity as Chair of the Working Group, to commend the efforts undertaken by your Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in coordination with the Government of Sri Lanka to contribute actively to the protection of children.

The Commission expressed appreciation for the work of the ESCAP Pacific Office and the support it had provided for members in the subregion, particularly its technical assistance and capacity-building activities in the areas of sustainable development, green growth, and the integration of social, environmental and economic outcomes.

[...] [...] continue to fulfil its functions to assist [...] [...]

[...] [...] Professional Officers wherever practical [...] [...]

[...] [...] for Disarmament Affairs as Executive Secretary [...] [...]

OHCHR-Colombia encourages the processes that have been initiated in response to Sentence T-025, which should include the Procurator General, the Ombudsman and civil society organizations.

[...] [...] decentralized offices on procurement, transfer of management and reporting lines of Regional Technical Officers to regional offices, and transfer of administrative and financial responsibility of FAO Representatives to the Regional Offices.

[...] [...] UNEP Regional Offices in Bangkok.

[...] [...] clients at multiple offices across a wide area.

[...] [...] the smallest offices of the United [...]

Members of the Council also have before them document S/2010/496, which contains the text of a draft resolution on the United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office in Sierra Leone, submitted by the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

[...] [...] and prevention of criminal offences.

Having successfully launched in four cities using its breakthrough hologram User Experince platform and created global JET TV commercial film and website, d’strict plans to open a New York Office in early 2010, and conduct other interactive campaigns with global brands in Europe, Asia and North America.

In section V, paragraph 10, of its resolution 63/248, the General Assembly recognized the acute problems faced by the United Nations Office at Geneva in providing conference services as required, as described by the Secretary-General in paragraph 103 of his report on the pattern of conferences (A/63/119 and Corr.1), and in that connection requested the Secretary-General to address those problems and to make all efforts to meet requirements in the context of the latest surge of meetings.

Given the regional dimension of the conflict, I reiterate the recommendation in my report on the situation of children and armed conflict in Chad (S/2008/532) that the respective United Nations country teams in the Sudan, Chad and the Central African Republic, as well as UNAMID, UNMIS, the United Nations Mission in the Central African Republic and Chad (MINURCAT) and the United Nations Peacebuilding Support Office in the Central African Republic (BONUCA) peacekeeping and political missions, dedicate the required resources to ensure that mechanisms are in place for information exchange and cooperation on cross-border child protection concerns such as the recruitment, release and reintegration of children.

[...] [...] and employment offices were modernised.

Members of the Council have before them document S/2009/39, which contains the report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Office for West Africa.

Representatives of the following United Nations bodies and specialized agencies, which had co-sponsored the Meeting, attended as part of the Joint Meeting Secretariat: Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, Regional Support Team Asia and the Pacific; United Nations Development Programme, Asia-Pacific Regional Centre; United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Regional Centre for East Asia and the Pacific; United Nations Children’s Fund, East Asia and Pacific Regional Office; United Nations Population Fund, Asia and Pacific Regional Office; United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, East and Southeast Asia Subregional Office; and the World Health Organization, Western Pacific Regional Office.

In accordance with paragraph 6 of the annex to Economic and Social Council resolution 2008 (LX), the reports of the Joint Inspection Unit concerning the economic, social and human rights programmes of the United Nations system, including the reports dealing with the United Nations Development Programme, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the United Nations Institute for Training and Research, shall be examined by the Committee, which shall report thereon to the Council and the Assembly.

In section V, paragraph 5, of its resolution 64/230, the General Assembly noted with appreciation the measures taken by the Secretariat to fill current and future vacancies at the United Nations Office at Nairobi and the information contained in paragraphs 87 to 89 of the report of the Secretary-General on the pattern of conferences (A/64/136), and requested the Secretary-General to consider further measures aimed at decreasing the vacancy rates in Nairobi and to report thereon to the General Assembly at its sixty-fifth session.

In addition, the ISU sought to broaden collaboration on victim assistance to include a number of actors that do not regularly participate in the work of the Convention, including the World Health Organisation, the International Labour Organisation, the International Disability and Development Consortium and the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.

At the global level, his delegation appreciated the work of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, endorsed the recommendation contained in paragraph 26 of the report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (A/63/166) and reiterated the appeal made to Member States and donors in paragraph 47 of that report.

ESCAP subprogramme 8, Subregional activities for development, includes subregional-level work delivered from the existing subregional office for the Pacific and three new offices covering North and North-East Asia, North and Central Asia, and South and South-West Asia, while ESCAP headquarters will handle the work for the South-East Asian subregion.

If, as suggested in paragraph 11 of the report of the Advisory Committee (A/63/593), such missions’ activities were directed towards operational matters and, as such, did not lend themselves to full integration with the work programme of the Secretariat, he wondered why the Secretary-General was proposing special political missions with no time limit, as in the case of the United Nations Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia, and why the functions of the United Nations Office for West Africa did not fit within the work programme.