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to the projects proposed, the Executive Committee endorsed the 2011-2014 consolidated business plan while noting that endorsement denoted neither approval of the projects identified therein nor their funding or tonnage levels; established a window for ODS destruction for LVC countries, pursuant to decision XXI/2 of the Twenty-first Meeting of the Parties, amounting to US $3 million; and decided that the project preparation could be funded for stage II HPMP activities and 12 might be included prior to the completion of stage I in business plans for the years 2012-2014 and that the duration of the next business plan should be only for the next triennium 2012-2014, and include any multi-year funding after 2014 (decision 63/5).

the Secretary-General on concrete recommendations to enhance the implementation of the Barbados Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States and the Mauritius Strategy for the Further Implementation of the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States (A/66/278) and on the review of United Nations system support to small island developing States (A/66/218), issued for the sixty-sixth session (resolution 66/198).

Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, Guatemala, Guyana, Mexico, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) referred to the question of the Falkland Islands (Malvinas), as reflected in A/C.4/66/SR.2, A/C.4/66/SR.5 and A/C.4/66/SR.6.

international responsibility between States and international organizations have not been expressly covered either in the articles on the responsibility of States for internationally wrongful acts or in the draft articles on the responsibility of international organizations”; some examples of these issues were given; and the Commission asked for comments and observations from Governments and international organizations about the context in which these questions should be considered (A/64/10, paras. 27 and 28).

decisions adopted by the Assembly on the rationalization of its work and that of the Third Committee, as well as past experience in the utilization of conference services.

key issues to be taken up in meetings of subsidiary bodies in 2011.

Human Rights; (i) workshops for Somali youth in support of gender equality education, as called for in the Agreed Conclusions of the Commission on the Status of Women; (j) a public forum against nuclear weapons.

session to review the draft strategic framework for the biennium 2014-2015, and seven meetings of the Informal Working Group on Draft Resolutions.

15, 16, 29 and 65 (c), of the tenth emergency special session of the General Assembly under agenda item 5, illegal Israeli actions in Occupied East Jerusalem and the rest of the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and of the Security Council, under the item entitled “The situation in the Middle East, including the question of Palestine”.

on the strengthening of the coordination of emergency humanitarian assistance of the United Nations.

take place within the Commission concerning the attitude to be taken to the topic under consideration, including the structure of the draft articles that were being elaborated, as well as the possible outcome of the Commission’s work.

threat must have multiple prongs: strongly addressing the mitigation challenge head on in ways that are supportive of sustainable development; promoting inclusive economic growth in developing countries as a key means of building resilience and adaptive capacities; urgently increasing international financial and technical support for the adaptation of developing countries, especially vulnerable countries; strengthening institutions at the local level to manage resource scarcities and environmental stresses peacefully; and strengthening the United Nations and other international institutions to be able to provide effective humanitarian, reconstruction and development support to countries faced with climate-related disasters and longer-term impacts.

of its neighbours in various ways, including with nuclear weapons; the waging of numerous wars against Palestine and Lebanon; the assassination of people, political and religious figures and elites; overt and covert interference in the political, economic and cultural affairs of other States; violations of international law and international humanitarian law and all-out violations of human rights, including the killing of children and women — all of this should be reason enough for the international community to take decisive measures to stop these brutalities and grant the people of Palestine the legitimate rights of which they have been deprived for decades.

for the plenary meetings of the General Assembly and the meetings of the First Committee and summary records will be provided to the other Main Committees and the General Committee of the Assembly.

of the Working Group on Exonyms, held in Austria in 2010; the seventeenth International Seminar on Sea Names, held in Vancouver, Canada, in 2011; a workshop on establishing a road map for geographical names in the countries of Africa, held in Gaborone, Botswana, in November 2011; and a national workshop for the standardization of geographical names, held in South Africa in April 2012.

to consider “(a) Funding additional demonstration projects to help demonstrate the value of replacement of CFC-based chillers, pursuant to relevant decisions of the Executive Committee; (b) Funding actions to increase awareness of users in countries operating under paragraph 1 of Article 5, of the impending phase-out and options that may be available for dealing with their chillers and to assist Governments and decision makers; (c) Requesting those countries preparing or implementing refrigerant management plans to consider developing measures for the effective use of the ozone-depleting substances recovered from the chillers to meet servicing needs in the sector.