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The Ministers welcomed the positive political developments and progress made in the Djibouti peace process, including the appointment of H.E. Mohammed Abdullahi Mohammed as the Prime Minister of the TFG of Somalia and the formation of the new technocratic cabinet and assured their commitment and support.

[...] [...] internationally recruited staff members; [...] [...]

Within the framework of the ongoing efforts to enhance institutional and human capacities in Africa and with funding from the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, ICTP supported the creation of a National Mathematical Centre in Abuja (Nigeria), and launched a programme for training and research in Italian laboratories with emphasis on the African region.

In paragraph 63 of his report (A/64/380), the Secretary-General provides information on a number of related initiatives being implemented concurrently with ERP within the United Nations Secretariat and missions, including: IPSAS implementation, the talent management system (recruitment and staffing), Lean Six Sigma (non-systems process improvement), enterprise content management and customer relationship management, as well as a fuel management system and a rations management system for peacekeeping functions.

In section V, paragraph 11, of the same resolution, the General Assembly requested the Secretary-General to seek a more effective strategy to fill current and future language post vacancies at all duty stations in a timely manner, took note of paragraph 92 of the report of the Secretary-General on the pattern of conferences (A/63/119 and Corr.1), and also requested the Secretary-General to hold the competitive examinations for the recruitment of language staff referred to in that paragraph, as well as other examinations beyond 2009, well in advance so as to fill current and future language post vacancies at all duty stations in a timely manner, and to inform the Assembly at its sixty-fourth session of efforts in that regard.

Notwithstanding these challenges, 113 children were confirmed to have been recruited by the following armed forces and groups: Armed Movement of Liberals and Reform (splinter group of JEM and SLA/Abdul Wahid), Border Intelligence Forces, Chadian armed opposition groups, community policing forces, police forces, Popular Defence Forces, SLA/Abu Gasim, SLA/Historical Leadership (splinter group of SLA/Abdul Wahid), SLA/Abdul Wahid, Sudanese Armed Forces and unknown armed groups.

In Tajikistan four features form accordingly the [...] [...]

There is a need for a number of additional measures such as succession planning to determine whether retiring staff are best replaced by developing existing staff or recruiting from outside the Organization; the development of competency frameworks for staff at the P-1 to P-4 levels and staff in the General Service category; the development and implementation of training and development plans to support the competency frameworks; and appropriate contractual arrangements and benefits that promote UNESCO as an employer of choice.

[...] [...] occurred in Abyei and reiterated their deep concern about the absence of an agreement on Abyei; stressed the importance of continued implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement and urged the parties to reach an agreement on Abyei and other critical [...] [...]