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Also at the 37th meeting, following the rejection of draft decision II, the representative of the United States of America introduced a draft decision entitled “Application of the

(d) Proposed that the Council should encourage the General Assembly to adopt, as a matter of urgency, appropriate permanent measures to ensure that indigenous peoples’ governance bodies and institutions, including traditional indigenous Governments, indigenous parliaments, assemblies and councils, were able to participate at the United Nations as observers with, at a minimum, the

Twenty-four seats will be allocated to observers for entities in the United Nations system,

At its 37th plenary meeting, on 27 July 2009, the Economic and Social Council took note of the decision of the Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations to submit, at its resumed session, a list of non-governmental organizations that had failed to submit their quadrennial reports for two or more consecutive periods, for suspension of their consultative status, after having confirmed that the Secretariat had sent final reminders to those organizations with outstanding reports and had requested each to submit a report covering the preceding four-year period by 1 May 2009, and that the permanent missions of the Member States in which the headquarters of the non-governmental organizations concerned are based had been notified of the final reminders,

In its decision 2008/217, the Council decided, on an exceptional basis, to extend to non-governmental

(e) The secretariat of the Human Rights Council will continue to provide

The panellists responded to comments made and questions raised by the representatives of Malaysia, France, Namibia, Brazil, Pakistan, Sweden (on behalf of the European Union), the Philippines and Algeria and the observer for

The Council shall explore the feasibility of using information technology, such as videoconferencing or videomessaging, to enhance access and participation by non-resident State delegations, specialized agencies, other intergovernmental organizations and national human rights institutions consistent with the Paris

Information on United Nations system activities

In resolution 1452 (XIV) adopted on 7 December 1959, the General Assembly of the United Nations, noting the statement made on behalf of India at the 614th meeting of the Sixth Committee (Legal) explaining that the Indian declaration on IMCO was a declaration of policy and that it did not constitute a reservation, expressed the hope ‘that, in the light of the above-mentioned statement of India an appropriate

OIOS was informed that OHRM is discussing this matter with the Department of Political Affairs to consider other possible contractual options that might better address experts’ needs, particularly since their work is of a longer nature than what is envisaged for

The Committee decided to recommend that the General Assembly, at its sixty-seventh session, grant to SCOSTEP the status of permanent observer of the Committee on the understanding that, in accordance with the agreement of the Committee at its thirty-third session (A/45/20, para. 137) and at its fifty-third session (A/65/20, para. 311) concerning observer status for non-governmental organizations and in accordance with the

The recommendations emerging from

To that end, it is essential that the

These activities include those done with and through: (a) the Sustainable Development Working Group of the Council of Regional Organizations of the Pacific (CROP) (paras. 29-30); (b) the Permanent Representatives of Pacific small island developing States to the United Nations (paras. 32-35); (c) the United Nations country team and the Pacific United Nations Development

NGOs that wished to participate in the

By its decision PC.2/2, the Preparatory Committee decided

This Convention shall be open for signature at Aarhus (Denmark) on 25 June 1998, and thereafter at United Nations Headquarters in New York until 21 December 1998, by States members of the