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[...] [...] that included Jianyang in the Sichuan province, Tieling, [...] [...]

[...] [...] work with the Sichuan side would need to be worked out with the Sichuan authorities.

UNESCO, in partnership with the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) and the All China Women’s Federation (ACWF), will lead on needs assessment and capacity-building of social workers, officials and policy-makers in programme counties of Sichuan.

For instance, a “Data Synthesis System for Pan-African Water Resources” and a “Manual on Glacier Mass Balance Measurement” [...] [...]

Ms. Minako Kitamura, Deputy Director of the Global Issues Cooperation Division, International Cooperation Bureau, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan, delivered opening remarks on behalf of Mr. Kazuhiko Koshikawa, Director-General of the International Cooperation Bureau, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan.

How highly automated sorting and handling processes can be implemented in practice, show two cooperating robots from Yaskawa: a delta robot Yaskawa Motoman MPP3 and a new high-speed robot Yaskawa Motoman MPK5F.

[...] [...] biodiversity, atmosphere, glaciers and other components [...] [...]

[...] [...] post-quake reconstruction work in Sichuan and providing secretariat support for the Steering Committee on the HKSAR’s Support for Reconstruction in the Sichuan Earthquake Stricken Areas; [...] [...]

According to the sixty-sixth session of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, which concluded only yesterday in Incheon, in the Republic of Korea, in Asia and the Pacific alone 11 countries may not meet the MDG on poverty reduction.

[...] [...] tsunami, the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, and [...] [...]

The UNESCO Beijing Office carried out several activities under this main line of action including a conference on Ecotourism Management of China’s Nature Reserves organized by the Chinese National Committee for MAB in October 2002 at the Juizhaigou and Huanglong Biosphere Reserve, Sichuan Province, China; a series of seminars in Xilingol Biosphere Reserve, targeted at the local community including the biosphere reserve manager and in Beijing for donor agencies and governmental and academic institutions; a feasibility survey on the establishment of nature reserves promoting the rehabilitation and the sustainable management of degraded grassland landscapes in Xilingol region (July-December 2002), conducted by the Chinese National Committee for MAB; the second Steering Committee and Project Coordinators’ Meeting of the Ecological Research for Sustaining the Environment in China (ERSEC) project (FIT Germany).

[...] [...] biodiversity; glacial retreat and surges; and [...] [...]

[...] assistance on such terms as the Board thinks fit to directors and bona fide employees of the Company, any of its subsidiaries, any holding company of the Company or any subsidiary of any such holding company in order that they may purchase or subscribe or otherwise acquire shares (fully or partly paid) in the Company or any holding company of the Company and such terms may include a reference that, when a director ceases to be a director of, or an employee ceases to be employed by, the Company or such other company, shares purchased or subscribed or otherwise acquired with such financial assistance shall or may be sold to the Company or such other company on such terms as the Board thinks fit.

That this Council urges the Government to comprehensively review the West Kowloon Cultural District development project, consider the ‘software’ contents before planning the cultural facilities, extend the deadline for submission of development proposals, openly and thoroughly consult the cultural sector, professional bodies, the real estate sector, the Legislative Council, the public and relevant organizations, and uphold the ‘people-oriented’, ‘partnership’ and ‘community-driven’ principles put forward by the Culture and Heritage Commission for the West Kowloon development in formulating a development and operation plan that is open, fair and proper; and in the process of development, the Government should also facilitate a partnership between developers and the cultural sector, so as to allow the latter to participate in the planning and future operation of the facilities in the district.

These 12 posts comprise one P-2 post of Associate Economic Affairs Officer under executive direction and management; one P-2 post under subprogramme 1, Linkages with the global economy, regional integration and cooperation; one P-2 post under subprogramme 2, Production and innovation; one P-2 post under subprogramme 3, Macroeconomic policies and growth; one P-2 post under subprogramme 5, Social development and equality; one P-2 post under subprogramme 12, Subregional activities in Mexico and Central America; one Local level post under subprogramme 13, Subregional activities in the Caribbean; and one P-4 temporary post, one P-2 post and three Local level posts under programme support.

[...] [...] are reasonable in the circumstances.

Regarding funding support for the arts groups, members in generally considered that the Administration should (a) ensure a reasonable and fair distribution of funding resources amongst arts groups; (b) review the existing mode of subsidy for the major performing arts groups to avoid stifling the development of non-subvented commercial arts groups; (c) provide more funding for the support of small and medium sized arts groups and budding artists; (d) explore means to minimize staffing and administrative expenses in the operation of arts programmes so that the savings could be 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.