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Thus, the Chairs network on “Interreligious Dialogue for Intercultural Understanding” proposes modules on the representation of the divine or of God, and the question of iconoclasm in religion and spirituality.

The report of the Secretary-General highlights a number of disturbing incidents, including church vandalism, graveyard desecration, the looting of icons and other relics, and the denial of property rights.

On 9 March, the Kosovo Police announced that they had opened an investigation into unknown perpetrators who had damaged the Orthodox church in Perkovac in Gornji Strmac/Stërnac i Epërm village, near Zubin Potok, and several icons.

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If the loophole cannot be plugged as soon as possible, the situation that unscrupulous drugstores sell diluted cough syrup will get out of hand and the consequences will be unthinkable.

The following had joined the sponsors of the draft resolution: Albania, Andorra, Austria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, the Central African Republic, Chad, the Comoros, Cyprus, France, Germany, Grenada, Guinea-Bissau, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Montenegro, Nauru, Norway, Papua New Guinea, Portugal, the Republic of Moldova, Romania, Saint Lucia, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Samoa, San Marino, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, Somalia, Spain, Tajikistan, Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkmenistan and Tuvalu.

Interfaith International encouraged Cyprus to set up favourable conditions for the removal of restrictive measures, which would make it possible for the faithful to exercise their religious freedom and to visit places of pilgrimage annually, and to combat trafficking in women by setting up a mechanism for the reintegration of victims in social and economic life.

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Professor Young told the Commission that a number of unfortunate circumstances converged on HKIEd, including the funding cuts (which applied to all institutions), the demographics leading to a substantial reduction in the demand for teachers and therefore cuts or potential cuts for teacher education providers (a particularly serious problem for a “mono-technic” HEI such as HKIEd), the community’s increasing expectation that all teachers should be graduates with degrees and therefore sub-degree places (HKIEd being the major provider) had to be reduced, some of HKIEd’s staff inherited from the former teacher training colleges (civil servants) were paid on a higher scale than university professors when they were not trained or prepared to teach up to degree level, and that TEIs were not attracting the best students (common to all TEIs although it was more serious in the case of HKIEd).

These include, but are not limited to, talented young voices giving expression, through word and image, to their expectations of the Organization and those who lead its Member States; scholars, students and 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 informs as it entertains.