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New draft guidelines for MOST National Committees have been prepared and are being circulated among National Commissions for eventual approval by the forthcoming IGC of MOST.

In paragraphs 6 and 29, the report refers to the non-paper that UNMIN circulated in Nepal.

I hope this report reaches a wide global audience and inspires even further steps to strengthen the United Nations human rights treaty body system, which is so integral to global progress.

Six regional reports on the status of and challenges facing ECCE were prepared and shared at the Conference.

A United Nations News Centre article was also picked up extensively by online news sources.

The draft will be widely circulated among civil society organizations so that their opinions may be incorporated into the final text.

In addition, the Commission was informed that in June 2007 a new SPS Information Management System was launched (www.spsims.wto.org) providing information on, among others, SPS notifications, documents circulated, trade concerns and enquiry points and notification authorities of members.

The Commission noted that although the proposed draft revision to the Preamble of the GSCTF had not been circulated for comments at Step 3 due to its late availability, the Committee on Contaminants in Foods (CCCF) had advanced the proposed draft revision for adoption at Step 5/8, with the omission of Steps 6 and 7, and that its adoption had been supported by the 62nd Session of the Executive Committee.

Dziennik Gazeta Prawna recently revealed a few details of the draft law circulating among Poland’s Ministries.

The “non-paper”, which was made available in June to a limited number of party interlocutors, placed technical activities against a timeline and showed that an estimated 39 weeks could be needed to organize the orderly discharge of Maoist army personnel, including time needed to equip the Government’s implementing institutions; to brief, register and profile personnel inside the cantonments, and physically regroup them; to plan the integration and rehabilitation in greater detail and to organize the logistics, staffing, coordination and funding aspects of this major exercise.

However, it may be preferable to submit and share among Member States written comments concerning the outcome document during the intersessional period, as the deliberation period in the current cycle will be brief.

(b) To request the Secretariat to circulate, via e-mail, the draft responses to the requests from the Executive Secretary of the Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure and the Chemicals Branch of UNEP/DTIE on experiences relevant to the Convention and experiences gained in technology transfer or technical support to developing countries, respectively, before issuing them.

[...] [...] Sector should also be encouraged to explore the feasibility of deploying movable libraries in remote and rural areas, so as to induce a culture of book use and reading.

[...] promoting a culture of reading.

A summary of the discussions of the meeting was distributed to all States Parties and made available on the Convention’s website.

Those efforts included encouraging universities to offer modules on space law; providing fellowships for graduate and postgraduate education in space law; assisting in the development of national space legislation and policy frameworks; organizing workshops, seminars and other specialized activities to promote greater understanding of space law; providing financial and technical support for legal research; preparing dedicated studies, papers and publications on space law; supporting space law moot court competitions; supporting the participation of young professionals in regional and international meetings relating to space law; providing for training and other opportunities to build experience; and supporting entities dedicated to the study of and research relating to space law.

The Administrative Officers would primarily be responsible for the following: the examination and analysis of the administrative and budgetary implications of the reports submitted to ensure compliance with legislative mandates and adequacy of justification; the identification of issues of administrative and financial policy for consideration by the Advisory Committee, including the analysis and identification of issues contained in previous General Assembly resolutions, reports of the Committee and other existing documentation; extensive research and the provision of technical advice and support to the Committee on issues of policy or procedure; drafting of the Committee’s reports, setting forth its conclusions and recommendations; and, provision of advice on and clarification of the substance of the Committee’s reports.