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The provision of $721,200 would cover travel requirements in connection with training activities, specifically: travel of resident audit staff and Headquarters-based auditors to participate in the annual internal audit conference in Entebbe ($321,200); travel of consultants to conduct various training courses during the annual internal audit conference in Entebbe ($32,800); and travel of the chief resident auditors to New York for the annual work-planning conference ($90,400); the travel of 12 investigators from Nairobi, New York, Vienna and peacekeeping operations to participate in external courses on basic and advanced interview techniques ($89,600), as well as travel for a retreat in New York to train all investigators with a view to improving the conduct of investigations of possible misconduct ($167,500); and participation of Inspection and Evaluation Division staff in advanced training courses on programme evaluation of peacekeeping operations ($19,700).

Furthermore, the Executive Secretary highlighted the value of formalized frameworks for coordination, including the Asia-Pacific Regional Coordination Mechanism (RCM), to enhance accountability and coordination with other stakeholders in all aspects of the work of ESCAP and to bring the United Nations family together to deliver as one at the regional level.

[...] [...] matter experts with experience in peace operations and responsible for the recruitment process in their field [...] [...]

The ongoing transfer of protection schemes to private companies and other related reforms should be made in consultation with beneficiaries, in the understanding [...] [...]

[...] [...] teachers who see in their work a discernible United Nations “impact”; college students who adapt the dynamism of the General Assembly’s possibilities to a “Global Model United Nations” that is entirely their own; non-governmental organizations and individuals who breathe new life into long-debated topics with the vigour of a vaster geographical base and greater opportunities for participation; Governments, research institutions and the media, which seek, and can now find, the recorded positions of Member States on key issues in readily accessible form; and the creative community, which sees in matters vital to the Organization’s agenda the chance to reach its audiences in a fashion that [...]

[...] [...] strategy, in particular the working group on supporting and highlighting victims of terrorism, the working group on countering the use of the Internet [...] [...]

(c) The following legislative acts were adopted: the Act on Strengthening the Role of Political Parties in the Renewal and Further Democratization of Governance and in the Modernization of Uzbekistan, of 11 April 2007, set up procedures whereby political parties can monitor appointments to the highest positions in the executive branch; and the Non-Governmental Non-Profit Organizations (Safeguards) Act, under which NGOs are eligible for State aid in the form of procurement of services, grants and subsidies.

The Representative further informed the Commission that the recently held World Health Assembly (May 2008) had adopted a resolution (WHA61.20) which indicated that the Assembly was encouraged by the work of the FAO/WHO through Codex on the Code of Hygienic Practice for Powdered Formulae for Infants and Young Children; that Member States were urged to implement through application and dissemination the WHO/FAO Guidelines on Safe Preparation, Storage and Handling of Powdered Infant Formula to minimize the risk of bacterial infection and to ensure that labelling conformed with standards, guidelines and recommendations of Codex taking into account resolution WHA58.32 and in addition urged Member States to investigate the possible use of donor milk through human milk banks for vulnerable infants as a riskreduction strategy.

The Republic of Azerbaijan has repeatedly stated that, despite ongoing political efforts towards the earliest resolution of the conflict on the basis of the generally accepted norms and principles of international law, the policy and practice of the Republic of Armenia, [...] [...]

[...] [...] Procedure which provides that “any Member of the Board may take part in the work of subsidiary bodies to which it does not belong”, Members of the Board who are not members of the CR have refrained from [...] [...]

The Senior Environmental Employment (SEE) Program assists the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and other federal, state, and local agencies in meeting their environmental mandates by using the talents and experience of workers 55 years of age and older.

The Lead IA will have a particularly prominent role in the monitoring arrangements because of its mandate to monitor ODS imports, whose records will be used as a crosschecking reference in all the monitoring programmes for the different projects within the TPMP.

[...] [...] ethical principles in relation to climate change, it became clear that significant work is needed on the upstream [...] [...]

[...] considered that the work in the following areas should be continued in the biennium 2011-2012: classification of desensitized explosives and oxidizing solids; issues related to dust explosion hazards; corrosivity criteria (consideration of pitting corrosion and suitability of tests C.1 for solids); further alignment of the criteria in the Globally Harmonized System with that of the Model Regulations; editorial revision of the chapters addressing skin corrosion/irritation; assessment of water-activated toxicity; implementation issues; further improvement of annexes 1, 2 and 3 of the [...] [...]

Assistance focuses on (a) establishing legal and policy frameworks consistent with international standards and norms; (b) strengthening the capacity of domestic institutions, in particular anti-corruption bodies and criminal justice institutions, to effectively prevent and control corruption in an integrated and coordinated way; (c) enhancing integrity, accountability and transparency in public and private sectors, including the management of public resources; (d) supporting relevant Government institutions in international cooperation and the recovery of assets at the domestic and international levels; (e) development of strategic and thematic partnerships with members of the international community and United Nations system to ensure coherency in the delivery of technical assistance; and (f) supporting the establishment of networks and platforms for policy dialogue and peer learning among Member States at the regional and international levels.

(c) The work undertaken by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in the promotion of the right to education at the country, regional and headquarters levels

[...] [...] effectively to any complaints it receives of torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment; and (c) comply rigorously with its legal mandate to report violations of which it has knowledge to the Public Prosecutor’s Office, and ensure effective oversight of action taken by the judicial [...]

[...] [...] programmes designed to build and sustain the Organization’s leadership and managerial capacity; improve the human and financial resources management expertise of programme managers and staff with administrative [...] [...]

It presents to the Council the results of the Group’s mandated investigations, which will be transmitted by the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1572 (2004) concerning Côte d’Ivoire (hereinafter the “Sanctions Committee”).

[...] [...] stations during 2000–2007, 7 persons younger than 18 years have suffered from industrial accidents, out of whom 4 with lethal consequences (table 31 from Annex No. 1).

[...] [...] some women who have been appointed into key leadership positions in recent times.

Subsequently, ESCAP played a critical role in establishing other regional institutions, such as the Asian Development Bank (ADB), in 1966, to fund the regional fight against poverty and the Typhoon Committee and Panel on Tropical Cyclones, which brought new coordination to regional efforts to save lives.

The Subcommittee noted with appreciation that States had adopted a number of approaches and concrete actions to mitigate space debris, including the improvement of the design of launch vehicles and spacecraft, the reorbiting of satellites, passivation, end-of-life operations and the development of specific software and models for space debris mitigation.

(c) A Police officer must report to his/her Formation Commander if he/she is called upon to deal with any matter which affects his/her interests or those of his/her spouse or a dependant, or those of an individual or company acting on his/her behalf.

[...] [...] and archives, notably aimed at the modernization of the cataloguing system of the National Library and ten other libraries in Iraq, as well as staff; and Component 5: Intangible heritage, in particular the promotion of the practice of Maqam [...] [...]

The following entry points for future cooperation and possible joint programmes with other United Nations agencies are planned: literacy and non-formal education (with UNDP and UNICEF); improvement of teachers’ standards of living (with ILO); development of teacher policies (with UNICEF) and the inclusion [...] [...]