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The current inaction by the Council with regard to the situation in the Syrian Arab Republic is also embarrassing in the light of the scale and severity of human rights violations.

The Secretariat clarified that the document had been endorsed by the Committee without any reservations.

Regardless of their original background, YCIS students achieve a natural ability to successfully respond and communicate, effortlessly moving between Eastern and Western styles.

The author claims that, in effect, as his communication and testimonies of the other unsuccessful applicants show, the overbroad grant of discretion to registration officials by the registration regime amounts in practice to a grant to them of unfettered discretion, which they employ without hesitation, to reject registration applications as and when they like.

Although implementation of the capital master plan would not be problem-free, all the stakeholders should take a longterm view, while making sure that the necessary resources were made available.

As for the review process to be conducted in New York, we support streamlining and taking appropriate steps that can help the Council to have enough resources at its disposal without delays to effectively carry out its mandated tasks.

I am more than satisfied with what this Organization achieved in such conditions and, although I would be the first to say that more improvements are needed – and are indeed on the way – there is every reason to be proud.

Prosecutions may prove pointless if they are not accompanied by the establishment of alternatives to piracy for the Somali people based on investments in communities that produce domestic revenues that contribute to the development of a formal economy.

We would have no hesitation in recommending your services to other organisations in similar circumstances to ourselves.

The Security Council has reaffirmed today its unequivocal commitment to protect children in situations of armed conflicts and is sending a clear message that the commitments imposed on parties by international law regarding the security and well-being of children must be respected and all abuses of or violence against children avoided.

The United Kingdom Government was committed to allowing each Territory to run its own affairs responsibly as far as possible, but when developments in a Territory gave cause for concern or a Territory failed to fulfil international obligations, the United Kingdom would not hesitate to raise the matter with the territorial Government and intervene where necessary.

In France, for example, the administrative judge does not grant the police absolute power of discretion in matters of public order. He verifies whether the disturbance or threat of disturbance is “sufficiently serious” to justify the measure taken, and does not hesitate to substitute his assessment of the specific situation for that of the municipal authority.

Several delegations urged the international community to initiate without delay the negotiation of an implementing agreement under the Convention for the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity beyond the limits of national jurisdiction.

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The Constitution, the international human rights treaties signed by Honduras, the State’s respectful acceptance of the competence of international human rights bodies and courts, special domestic legislation, the establishment and strengthening of institutions to promote and safeguard human rights, the creation of new human rights bodies within the Executive, the promotion of a national human rights policy as a basis for a national plan of action, and other initiatives under the “Vision for the Country – Plan for the Nation” strategy, together make up a broad framework underpinning the decisions of the State, a mechanism that is expanding and that will undoubtedly make for progress in the current human rights situation and effective interaction between society and the State.