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In particular, it will provide the Lead IA and the cooperating agencies with access to information necessary to verify compliance with this Agreement.

At its sixty-fourth session, the General Assembly requested the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, within its mandate, to intensify its efforts to continue to systematically develop specialized legal knowledge in the area of counter-terrorism and pertinent thematic areas of relevance to the mandates of the Office and to provide, upon request, technical assistance for building the capacity of Member States to ratify and implement the international conventions and protocols related to terrorism, especially through the preparation of technical tools and publications and the training of criminal justice officials, and requested the Office to report to the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice at its nineteenth session on the activities of the Office in that regard; and also requested the Secretary-General to submit to the Assembly at its sixty-fifth session a report on the implementation of the resolution (resolution 64/177).

Expressing appreciation for the work of the ESCAP/WMO Typhoon Committee, the representative of the Republic of Korea informed the Committee that his Government had been conducting a project called the “Typhoon Committee Disaster Information System”, which was a web-based disaster information system under that Committee’s Working Group on Disaster Risk Reduction meant to predict typhoon damage on the basis of the projected path of a typhoon and historical damage data using the Geographic Information System.

To ensure sufficient drying of the interior of the diverter switch oil compartment and of the diverter switch insert, it is necessary to connect a common tube of at least 50 mm nominal width between the kerosene vapor lead and at least two pipe connections of the on-load tap-changer head leading into the diverter switch compartment.

The following priority areas/themes were mentioned during the General Conference debates for consideration in preparing document 35 C/5: continued focus on the promotion of freedom of expression and freedom of the press, including through the International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC); increased emphasis on social, legal and ethical dimensions of ICTs, in particular the role of knowledge in societal development; cultural diversity and the promotion of multilingualism; role of ICTs in widening access to information and building knowledge societies, an area in which the Information for All Programme (IFAP), through its revised strategic plan could play an active role; and the contribution of media to dialogue and a culture of peace.

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This is due to the trade winds that blow east-west across the Atlantic to the American continent and the warm currents flowing from the Equator to the Norwegian Sea, where the angle of the Norwegian coastline and the open path to the Arctic Ocean guides the temperate air and waters to more northerly latitudes.

In large parts of the world, food systems were shaped to a considerable extent by the so-called green revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, which pushed agricultural yields as much through much more intensive use of irrigation water and environmentally harmful chemical fertilizers and pesticides, as through the introduction of new seeds varieties (figure O.3).

Social services are provided through guaranteed social payments in the form of aid to low-income families with dependants and to incapacitated persons with no working experience, financial support for certain categories of the population and welfare services for persons in need of special nursing care in hospital conditions, elderly persons living alone at home, temporarily incapacitated persons, and pregnant women and newborns, as well as for inhumation.

These Recommendations were promoted in Palestine by: leading of a high level discussion on these Recommendations with senior policy-makers in order to mobilize support for the adoption of these instruments in the ongoing education reform; organization of an information seminar to promote the Recommendations and demonstrate their utility for higher education institutions, faculties of education and teachers' unions; advising of the National Standards Committee tasked with developing national professional standards for teachers on applying the Recommendations.

The Coordinating Committee also agreed that these experimental sessions should be based on certain key principles, including: that participation would be on a voluntary basis, particularly as concerns States Parties that would be the subject of a national focus; that the overarching purpose of each session would be to seek cooperative means to support implementation; and, that there would be no report produced attributing views to any participant or revealing participants’ affiliations.

It entails raising the troop level to 17,731 uniformed personnel and a set of enablers and force multipliers aimed at achieving a fine balance between the operational requirements and a realistic level of resources through (a) the prioritization of areas of operation; (b) the phasing of the operation without significantly altering the desired objectives; (c) trading force multipliers and enablers for troop levels by maintaining capability; (d) requesting Ethiopia to continue to provide support to Transitional Federal Government/AMISOM operations in the Bay, Bakool and Hiraan regions; and (e) the provision of immediate operational logistics support to the Transitional Federal Government security forces.

Jordan has great hopes for the sincere and extensive efforts of the Security Council and appreciates the Egyptian initiative, which should serve as an incentive to make progress in ending this tragic situation, by providing humanitarian assistance to the brotherly Palestinian people, alleviating their suffering and returning to serious negotiations in order to achieve the two-State solution, which is the only way to ensure security and stability in the region.

For ammunition, such inspections sheets should include the lot number, type, calibre, material, quantity, markings on the cartridge and on the packaging, including detailed pictures and descriptions of the cartridge and the packaging.

Beijing also views the country as a potential source of and trans-shipment route for energy in the case of interruption of shipping through the Malacca Strait.

Support for and promotion of initiatives by society are considered to be of the utmost importance as a way of ensuring the citizen participation which is so necessary in dealing with problems of this kind.

Despite the international community’s condemnation of such abusive practices, Israel remained heedless of humanitarian and moral standards and had persisted for decades in disregarding resolutions such as General Assembly resolution 2443 (XXIII), had consistently refused to allow the Fourth Committee of the General Assembly to visit the occupied Arab territories and had shown no desire to cooperate with the international community to establish a just and comprehensive peace in the region.

Despite not having contributed to global warming on any scale, Tuvalu, a small island State stretched over a vast oceanic area with a very narrow economic base, was committed to implementing green growth initiatives as a way of moving towards sustainable development and finding the right balance between economic, social and environmental objectives.

Recommendations In 2009, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) supported Member States in their efforts to achieve a world safer from crime, drugs and terrorism through research to expand the evidence base for policy and operational decisions; normative work to assist States in the ratification and implementation of international treaties, the development of domestic legislation on drugs, crime and terrorism and the provision of substantive and secretariat services for treaty bodies and governing bodies; and field-based technical cooperation and the development and implementation of regional and thematic programmes.

(b) Proposing that the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict participate in the next meeting of the Committee and coordinate with the Monitoring Group on Somalia with a view to exchanging information with members of the Committee on individuals and entities that threaten the peace, security or stability of Somalia by committing violations against children in Somalia and on ways to better protect children’s rights.

The Conference reaffirms that existing institutional ways and means of ensuring multilateral cooperation among all States Parties need to be developed further in order to promote international cooperation for peaceful uses in areas relevant to the Convention, including areas, such as medicine, public health, agriculture and the environment.

In the light of the potential value that these organizations could add to the process, Bhutan suggested that the Council consider means to facilitate the participation of non-governmental organizations from developing and least developed countries in the universal periodic review process, particularly during the plenary phase.

Internal factors include: the level of PCT fees as compared to other filing routes; the attractiveness and value of PCT services as compared to other filing routes; the overall credibility of performance of the patent system; and individual corporate patent strategies.

Global analysis undertaken by the World Resources Institute showed that more than one quarter of the world’s active mines and exploration sites overlap with or are within a 10-kilometre radius of a strictly protected area; nearly one third of all active mines and exploration sites are located within areas of intact ecosystems of high conservation value; almost one third of all active mines are located in stressed watersheds; nearly one fifth of active mines and exploration sites are in areas of high or very high seismic hazard; and more than one third are in areas that may be predisposed to water quality problems.

In paragraph 12 of the same section of the resolution, the General Assembly welcomed the efforts made by the Department for General Assembly and Conference Management to seek the evaluation by Member States of the quality of the conference services provided to them, and requested the Secretary-General to continue to explore innovative ways to systematically capture and analyse feedback from Member States and committee Chairs and Secretaries on the quality of conference services and to report thereon to the Assembly through the Committee on Conferences.

The aim of the measures is to ensure availability of dwellings through improving access to dwellings, opportunities for acquiring dwellings, improving the dwelling conditions of target groups, solving the problem of dwelling of so-called forced tenants living in dwellings returned to previous lawful owners, improving the system of subsistence benefits, improving the legal environment and raising administrative capacity.

Fulfilment of the provisions of article 8 of the Covenant takes place through the means of the ordinary mechanisms – state and public control (Labour inspection and trade unions), ensuring access to justice and establishment of sanctions for breach of internal rules adopted on the basis of international regulations.

Here, careful and sensitive assessments of the political economy of fishing and its beneficiaries may need to be made, and appropriate mixes of incentives and sanctions through a number of routes may need to be considered, in order to bring about change.