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(see A/65/305), should include training-related indicators for supervisors as well as staff, in order to ensure that programme managers take responsibility for identifying skills gaps and assessing the impact of training activities on the performance of their units.

well in advance of its sixty-fifth session; and decided to further examine, within the framework of a working group of the Sixth Committee, the question of a convention on responsibility of States for internationally wrongful acts or other appropriate action on the basis of the articles (resolution 62/61).

has started in recent months between non-governmental organisations and the UN.

as regards the reconstruction of education systems and the preservation of cultural heritage.

in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and to reiterate the appeal of the Palestinian people and their leadership to the international community, including the Security Council, to uphold its legal obligations and responsibilities and to act forthwith to bring an end to this unlawful and dangerous situation and to salvage the prospects of realizing a just, comprehensive and lasting peace settlement by which, inter alia, the Palestinian people will realize their right to self-determination and freedom in their independent, sovereign, democratic, contiguous and viable State of Palestine, with East Jerusalem as its capital, on the basis of the pre-1967 borders.

of Gaza early this month, renews its call for Israel to ensure the immediate, unconditional and sustained reopening of its crossing points with the Gaza Strip in order to allow for the movement of people, goods and reconstruction materials into Gaza, put an end to the continuously escalating humanitarian crisis, and rebuild what was destroyed.

facts and develop a meaningful forward looking plan based on these facts.

at the technical level, responsibility resides with the Chief Sustainable Development and Environment Officer.

the Tribunal is hopeful that the European Commission, as well as other international agencies, will continue to show their commitment to the rule of law by supporting the renewed Outreach efforts at this crucial time when the responsibility for dealing with the atrocities of the conflicts is shifting more and more on to the States in the former Yugoslavia.

Procedural Questions to strengthen the transparency of the Council’s working methods by reviewing and updating the relevant presidential note (S/2006/507), thereby enhancing the rule of law in the everyday work of the Council.

whilst encouraging more investment in new commercial database products and services, may at the same time greatly reduce the access of scientists and researchers in developing countries to the data they contain because they will often lack the financial means to pay for the necessary subscriptions.

General Assembly resolution 64/106, in which the Special Committee was requested to finalize, before the end of the Second International Decade for the Eradication of Colonialism and in cooperation with the administering Power and the Territory in question, a constructive programme of work on a case-by-case basis for the Non-Self-Governing Territories to facilitate the implementation of the mandate of the Special Committee and the relevant resolutions on decolonization, including resolutions on specific Territories.

the close linkages between FAO’s resource mobilization strategy and the country programming process.

and Government and State institutions in general, thus endangering the efficacy of public interventions and risking political instability; (b) provoke significant redistributions of wealth in ways that not only are unfair and, in some cases, possibly illegal, but also favour rent-seeking behaviour, act against fair competition and provide the wrong incentives for efficiency, innovation and competitiveness in general; and (c) prolong outdated practices and political institutions, including co-optation, corruption and the capture of public policies by specific industries or groups, delaying the modernization of State institutions and impeding overall economic, social and political development over the longer term.

Nations system to coordinate statistical activities, asked relevant United Nations authorities to review the situation, and requested the United Nations Statistics Division to report to the Commission on this issue at its forty-third session.

desertion would not of themselves entail a violation, since he has been unable to show that he is in personal danger of being subjected to torture or persecuted if he is deported to the Congo.

for all health care staff prior to and during postings in prisons, in order to ensure that the quality and appropriateness of health care and health prevention programmes provided by the health care professionals.

with possible subregional consequences, I would like to hereby request that the Security Council, within its powers enshrined under Article 24 of the Charter of the United Nations, in its capacity as the entity charged with the maintenance of international peace and security, analyse at an extraordinary meeting the internal situation of Guinea-Bissau resulting from the non-acceptance of democratic, free, just and transparent elections; and debate the dispatch of a peacekeeping force to Guinea-Bissau, the latter to be charged with extensive powers aimed at the maintenance of political stability in the country and at defence of the democratic gains which the people of Guinea-Bissau obtained at great sacrifice and desire to preserve for the economic, social and cultural development of the country.

promote binding standards with a view to ensuring that any activity conducted in outer space was governed by the principles of preservation of life and maintenance of peace.