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This could promote land grabbing unless policies are quickly adopted to address this.

As part of the e-Morocco national strategy, drawn up by the Government [...] [...]

Many developing States were unable to put in place coherent national strategies because of their international obligations.

The Commission was informed of initiatives that were being undertaken by Pacific island developing countries to protect biodiversity and the maintenance of ecosystem services, such as the Phoenix Islands Protected Area in Kiribati, the largest marine protected area in the Pacific Ocean, and the Coral Triangle Initiative, which covered a number of countries in the Asia-Pacific region, included the greatest extent of mangrove forests in the world and provided a critical spawning and juvenile growth area for tuna and other globally significant fish species.

In addition, the Jamaica Defence Force had put in place revised rules of engagement, focusing on a further reduction in civilian deaths.

With the introduction of the interim constitution, an interim parliament has been constituted which presents new opportunities for working more closely with the government, particularly at the local levels.

The Government of China will issue policies and regulations supporting the activities proposed in the Foam [...] [...]

This report demonstrates the concern of Honduras for the protection and conservation of indigenous and Afro-Honduran native cultures, as reflected in the establishment of special units and laws to protect the various manifestations of the national culture, which will result in the full integration of these peoples into a properly consolidated society that respects their ethnic and cultural origins.

They renewed their commitment to fight all forms of transnational organized crime by strengthening national legal frameworks, where applicable, and cooperation mechanisms, in particular through the exchange of information, mutual legal assistance and extradition in accordance with domestic law and international instruments as appropriate.

The Commission welcomed information provided by several delegations on their country initiatives to further strengthen statistical systems and the progress achieved in recent years, including through strengthening legislative infrastructure for statistics and developing and implementing national statistics development strategies.

[...] [...] capacity, including by introducing “buy [...]

[...] [...] funding agency presenting guidelines [...] [...]

As with the "system for evaluation of the wealth gap" advocated by the Hong Kong Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood (ADPL), the authorities should, during the formulation and before the implementation of any policies, evaluate from the "family-based" angle and principle the impact of the policies on families, and led by the notion of improving family conditions, revise policies detrimental to families before they are implemented.

[...] methods recently put in place may need [...] [...]

Other achievements under the Convention have included the adoption of Act No. 29478, which deals with the provision of facilities to enable persons with disabilities to vote; Act No. 29524 on Deafblind Persons, which recognizes deafblindness as a single disability; Administrative Decision No. 0269-2009 of the National Identity and Civil Status Registry (RENIEC), which establishes that national identity documents are to be issued free of charge to persons with disabilities and provides for expedited procedures for persons, especially children, who do not have a birth certificate; and legislation on health-care provisions for members of the armed forces and police.

Providing policies that create [...] [...]

The sales permits have been issued to 94% of the public water supply systems, which also have action plans in place for improving the quality of water.

The envisaged decentralization process and planned redefinition of provincial boundaries remains pending, and could exacerbate tensions between central and provincial authorities and heighten local conflicts.

The Committee also recommends that the State party adopt a comprehensive policy to combat violations of the rights of street children in order to prevent recurrences in the future.

The introduction of new policies and/or working practices, as well as input received from course participants and staff at large, informed the development of new programmes and/or the updating of existing ones.

[...] governments have raised awareness through [...] [...]

The Committee notes with appreciation that Ecuador has successfully complied with its consumption freeze targets for the past four years and that, having put in place its national phase-out plan, it will meet its CFC consumption targets by 2005.

When the new Chief Executive and the [...] [...]

The Censorship of the Talmud and other Hebrew works was introduced by a papal bull issued in 1554; five years later the Talmud was included in the first Index Expurgatorius; and Pope Pius IV.

The Chinese argued that a) this was an internal affair not within the purview of the UN Security Council and that such a statement from the Council would interfere with a decision of the national judiciary; and b) such a statement was not constructive and would not help to advance positive progress on the roadmap.

The European Union remained committed to the use of sanctions as part of an integrated, comprehensive policy approach, which should include political dialogue, incentives, conditionality and even, as a last resort, coercive measures in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations.

The parties further agreed to discuss under agenda item 17, “Other matters”, a request for information on existing and planned policies that influenced the phase-out of ozone-depleting substances; the process of recruiting a new Chief Officer of the Multilateral Fund for the Implementation of the Montreal Protocol; the status of ratification of the Beijing Amendment to the Montreal Protocol; and the status of the Bali Declaration on Transitioning to Low Global Warming Potential Alternatives to Ozone-Depleting Substances.

With the purpose to improve the methods of production, preservation and distribution of food products during 2002–2008, the following acts have been adopted: Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction Strategy (2004–2006) by means of Law No. 398XV from 02.12.2004; The Programme of Activity of the Government for the years 2005– 2009 “Modernisation of the country – wellbeing of the nation” by means of the Government Decision No. 790 from 01.08.2005; The National Programme “Moldovan Village” (2005–2015) adopted by means of Government Decision No. 242 from 01.03.2005.

[...] [...] in Mexico by adopting social inclusion [...] [...]