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organizations to collaborate with the Secretary-General of la Francophonie by identifying new synergies; invited the Secretary-General of the United Nations to take the steps necessary, in consultation with the Secretary-General of la Francophonie, to continue to promote cooperation between the two Organizations; and requested the Secretary-General to submit to the Assembly at its sixty-seventh session a report on the implementation of the resolution (resolution 65/263).

that it did not refer to the fact that the small island developing States in that category were open, vulnerable and heavily indebted, with deep and intractable pockets of poverty, and required assistance from the international community, including debt relief, concessions and assistance specifically tailored to increase economic and developmental space, in order to cope with their situation.

(RECs) and to ensure coherence and complementarity in the initiatives taken; (ii) stressed the need to increase coordination among the various actors at the national level and between the national and subregional or regional levels; (iii) called for meetings of Ministers of Education of the RECs to be held in cases, such as in ECOWAS, where they had not been held for a long time, to facilitate the taking of policy decisions required to harmonize education systems, policies and strategies, vectors of regional integration.

specific to the treatment of women in detention and in custodial and non-custodial settings, we recommend that the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice consider them as a matter of priority for appropriate action.

effective elimination of discrimination based on work and descent as an important contribution to the global struggle to combat discrimination on the grounds of work and descent which often affects members of minority groups.

members of the international community, and calls on all to assist in preserving the constitutional order in Guinea-Bissau and to continue to support peacebuilding efforts in the country.

copy of the guidelines for customization.

to bring about a holistic and multidisciplinary approach to this complex and multifaceted global problem

consider ways to promote and expand cooperation and coordination with Pacific Islands Forum members and the Forum secretariat; and requested the Secretary-General to submit a report on the implementation of the resolution to the Assembly at its sixty-seventh session (resolution 65/316).

“Climate change and its possible security implications”, and we would like to sincerely thank the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) and the Division for Sustainable Development for their lead role in preparing such a comprehensive and substantive report in such a short period of time.

in the information they supply.

indicators, complementarity with the expected outcomes of the Medium-Term Strategy and coherence between expected outcomes, expected results, as well as monitoring instruments and reporting standards.

possible; $121,200 under travel of staff, mainly attributable to increased utilization of video conferencing, combining trips and/or reducing the duration of travel as much as possible; $460,800 under contractual services, primarily owing to increased utilization of electronic means of disseminating publications; $111,000 under furniture and equipment, reflecting reduced requirements for the replacement of furniture and office equipment resulting from extending the lifespan of furniture and equipment; and $781,600 under grants and contributions, mainly owing to the termination of the contract with the International Computing Centre.

activities with the Regular Programme, others expressed their concern and stressed the need to preserve the Regular Programme as the main pillar of UNESCO’s action and establish a careful balance between Regular Programme and extrabudgetary activities, the extension of a results based management approach to extrabudgetary activities, the importance of coordination with beneficiary countries and field offices and the need to ensure reporting to UNESCO’s governing bodies on its extrabudgetary activities, as well as the integration in SISTER and FABS.

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.

and integrate core international law principles, such as on the limits to the permissible scope of amnesty laws.

norms into the penal code, in particular the abolition of the death penalty.

adoption of a resolution on 12 January 2009, which, inter alia, calls for an immediate cessation of Israeli military attacks and demands the withdrawal of Israeli occupying forces from the Gaza Strip; demands that Israel, the occupying Power, lift the siege imposed on the Gaza Strip and open all border crossings to allow for access and the free movement of humanitarian aid; urges all parties to respect international humanitarian and human rights law and to refrain from violence against the civilian population; and decides to dispatch an urgent international fact-finding mission to investigate all violations of international human rights and humanitarian law by the occupying Power.

that took place in conjunction with the group’s meetings and encouraged the EGTT to continue this dialogue, ensuring a balanced representation of business from developed and developing countries.

as a party or as a contracting State to a treaty which, at the date of the succession of States, was not in force for the predecessor State but to which the predecessor State was a contracting State, that State shall be considered as maintaining any reservation to the treaty which was applicable at the date of the succession of States in respect of the territory to which the succession of States relates, unless it expresses a contrary intention when making the notification or formulates a reservation which relates to the same subject matter as that reservation.

(GCC), and in the capacity of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia as Chair of the GCC for 2012, I have the honour to transmit to you the enclosed letter addressed to you from the Permanent Representatives of the GCC Member States on their collective official position regarding the recent visit of the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the island of Abu Musa (see annex).

multi-hazard safety standards and guidance for implementation in missions; develop a generic field safety reporting and incident database for use by field operations and Headquarters in monitoring global safety and to support senior management and troop- and police-contributing countries in their awareness and decision-making; and keep Member States informed on fire safety as it affects personnel from troopand police-contributing countries.

among different cultures and societies, including its first forum, held in Spain in 2008, its second forum, held in Turkey in 2009, its third forum, held in Brazil in 2010, and its fourth forum, to be held in Qatar in 2011

a complete and full investigation into the incident”.

initiatives of the Chief Executives Board, and the establishment of the Global Impact and Vulnerability Alert System in September, which would allow the impact of the crisis to be carefully monitored.