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At its fifty-first session, the General Assembly invited the Security Council, through an appropriate procedure or mechanism, to update the Assembly on a regular basis on the steps it had taken or was contemplating with respect to improving its reporting to the Assembly (resolution 51/193).

The Commission indicated that it had not received a positive response either from Israel or from the de facto authorities in Gaza and therefore was not in a position to provide any further update with respect to the rocket attacks on Israel launched from Gaza.

The State party is requested to clarify to the Committee whether article 26 of the code of criminal procedure is still in force and, if so, how the provision is applied in practice.

The Executive Committee, after considering the project proposal, decided, inter alia, to approve US $1,977,454, excluding agency support costs, for the phase-out of 213 ODP tonnes of MB, to achieve a 25 per cent reduction in the MB baseline consumption by 2005 and to note that the Government of Honduras undertook to permanently sustain this reduction in the consumption of MB through implementation of the project and the use of import restrictions and other policies that it might deem necessary (Decision 37/50).

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With regard to productive capacity, the Secretary-General reminded the Commission of the long-held position of UNCTAD that productive capacity was key to development strategy.

[...] Secretary-General will clarify to the Assembly, [...] [...]

[...] Association (GIFA) said that the UAE has [...]

[...] [...] opportunity to persuade many members [...] [...]

However, it is of concern to the States Parties that, despite the significant amount of funding invested in victim assistance-related efforts, for many survivors, according to Handicap International, there has been no improvement in the quality of their daily lives since the Nairobi Summit.

The Officer-in-Charge also informed the Governing Council that efforts had been made to enhance expert networking through the new dedicated website for members of the Technical Committee and the Governing Council, as well as to promote the visibility of the Centre through an effective communication strategy and by building partnerships with other stakeholders.

The delegation informed the Commission that the Subregional Office could play a useful role in assisting both members and the secretariat in implementation of the ESCAP programme of work by acting as an outreach arm.

No resolution in respect of which expenditures are anticipated by the Secretary-General shall be voted by the General Assembly until the Administrative and Budgetary Committee (Fifth Committee) has had an opportunity of stating the effect of the proposal upon the budget estimates of the United Nations.

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[...] [...] Council, the TNC said that it welcomed [...] [...]

According to ITRI, between 1,000 and 1,500 tons of tin ore produced before the Government’s mining ban of September 2010 were not exported within the short time frame between the lifting of the suspension on 10 March 2011 and the export deadline of the conflict-free smelter programme on 1 April 2011.

The Committee noted that international [...] [...]

By its resolution 1649 (2005), the Council extended the scope of the travel restrictions and assets freeze to political and military leaders of foreign armed groups operating in the Democratic Republic of the Congo or Congolese militias receiving support from abroad that impede the participation of their combatants in disarmament, demobilization and reintegration processes, to take effect on 15 January 2006, unless the Secretary-General informed the Council that the process of disarmament of those foreign armed groups and Congolese militias operating in the Democratic Republic of the Congo was being completed.

The Board observed that the situation in Malaysia was similar, but smaller in scope.

By letter of 7 November 2008, the authorities informed the SPT that “corporal punishment does not occur in prisons except between detainees, to which prison authorities are not witness, but that nonetheless and in order to prevent this type of punishment it is envisaged to: sensitise staff working in prisons; recruit specialised staff to oversee prisons; reduce the number of prisoners pro rata to the number of staff tasked with overseeing them; sanction staff and detainees who use corporal punishment; and reinforce existing mechanisms to allow detainees to bring complaints against such ill-treatment.

Regarding the statement of programme budget implications of draft resolution A/C.3/64/L.36, concerning the situation of human rights in Myanmar, the Advisory Committee recommended that the Committee should inform the General Assembly that, should it adopt draft resolution A/C.3/64/L.36, additional requirements amounting to $1,281,600 gross ($1,159,100 net) had been included in the SecretaryGeneral’s report on estimates in respect of special political missions, good offices and other political initiatives authorized by the General Assembly and/or the Security Council (A/64/349/Add.1) and would be charged under section 3 of the proposed programme budget for the biennium 2010-2011.

The Advisory Committee therefore recommended that the Committee should inform the General Assembly that, should it adopt draft resolution A/C.2/64/L.64, additional resources amounting to $1,689,300 gross ($1,460,000 net), after recosting, would be required under section 16 and section 28F of the proposed programme budget for the biennium 2010-2011.

The Minister also recognized that the author had no ties to Sweden and did not speak Swedish but eventually decided that the seriousness and frequency of his crimes would outweigh these considerations.

While on vacation in South Africa in May 2009, he visited Khayelitsha, the largest township in Cape Town, and asked a crowd of teenagers playing soccer who their idol was, fully expecting them to name a top-flight player.

The Permanent Mission of Colombia to the United Nations presents its compliments to the Chair of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1591 (2005) concerning the Sudan and takes this opportunity to provide information on the steps taken by the Republic of Colombia to implement the measures imposed by resolutions 1591 (2005) and 1556 (2004).

As such, in February 2009, the Commission [...] [...]

According to the committee, in 2006, 31% of families in Israel had to relinquish basic food ingredients in order to finance the purchase of other essential products and services, a slight decline in comparison to 34% in 2003.

At its sixty-third session, the General Assembly took note of the appointment by the Secretary-General of a new Coordinator for Multilingualism; requested the Secretary-General to ensure equal treatment for all language services and effective multilingual communication among representatives of Member States, including through simultaneous distribution of documents in all official languages; requested the Department of Public Information to improve actions taken to achieve parity among the six official languages on the United Nations website; and requested the Secretary-General to submit to it at its sixty-fifth session a comprehensive report on the full implementation of its resolutions on multilingualism (resolution 63/306).