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that the Committee’s meetings be convened in Paris at UNESCO Headquarters in order to encourage participation by as many States as possible which already had delegations in Paris, particularly those of developing countries with scant resources.

benefited from schemes to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation.

the Tehran Process for Low Forest Cover Countries also participated.

a Food Chain Crisis Management Framework for prevention, early warning, preparedness and response to food chain crises caused by transboundary animal and plant pests and diseases, food safety threats and emergencies, as well as nuclear and radiological threats and emergencies; and the organization of international forums to discuss biological risk management in relation to food and agriculture.

reports of arbitrary detentions, while the number of other human rights violations and abuses, in particular with respect to freedom of movement, speech and assembly, remained relatively unchanged.

Arabia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Syrian Arab Republic, Turkey, United Kingdom and United States; to invite Palestine to attend and fully participate in its meetings as an observer; to invite the European Community to attend its meetings; and to invite the League of Arab States to attend its meetings as an observer.

Israel, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Mali, Morocco, Poland, the Republic of Korea, the Republic of Moldova, Romania, Rwanda, Senegal, Spain, Thailand, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Turkey, Ukraine, the United States of America and Zimbabwe joined the co-sponsors.

a good report on the last two.

amongst arts groups; (b) review the existing mode of subsidy for the major performing arts groups to avoid stifling the development of non-subvented commercial arts groups; (c) provide more funding for the support of small and medium sized arts groups and budding artists; (d) explore means to minimize staffing and administrative expenses in the operation of arts programmes so that the savings could be re-allocated to the use of arts development; (e) examine the effectiveness of the current funding policy in achieving the policy goals, such as encouraging diversified and balanced development of arts and culture; and (f) consider increasing its overall allocation of funding for culture and the arts, given the imminent need to achieve the vision of the West Kowloon Culture District project.

for Foreign Affairs of Zambia; Milorad Šćepanović, Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs of Montenegro

and World Heritage sites as strategic priority sites for United Nationswide actions, under UN-REDD and other climate change-linked initiatives.

Autonomous University of Mexico, the Soka Gakkai Organization and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mexico, organized an event entitled “April, Nuclear Disarmament Month at Universum” to impart knowledge about nuclear disarmament to children and youth.

de Philosophie, on the theme “The struggle for recognition and the economy of giving”, and the second by Mr Jaakko Hintikka, likewise Honorary President of the Institut International de Philosophie, on the theme “Epistemology without knowledge and belief”.

a new partnership for increasing trade related finance to emerging markets.