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While it may be difficult to prioritize between those two factors, it is clear that they go hand-in-hand and must be made to work in a mutually reinforcing way.

In my annual report on children and armed conflict issued in 2010 (A/64/742S/2010/181), I raised the concerns about the alleged recruitment of young Kenyan Somali men and boys from North-eastern Province in Kenya, as well as Somali refugees from Dadaab refugee camp, in Kenya, to fight alongside the Transitional Federal Government in Somalia.

In paragraph 205 of its report A/63/5/Add.10, UNOPS agreed with the Board’s recommendation (a) to implement policies to ensure that all operations centres submit, on a monthly basis, advances recoverable locally ledgers in the required format and detail; and (b) to include as part of month-end procedures the review of advances recoverable locally.

Against this background, one supernumerary post of AOSGB (D3) has been created in the ETWB under delegated authority from Finance Committee (FC) with effect from 29 February 2004 to help oversee the operation of the merger steering committee and the merger management committee; to monitor the progress of the negotiations and follow up on matters that may require the Government’s input/actions to facilitate the negotiations; to provide policy guidance on a whole range of merger-related transport issues arising from the negotiations; to maintain liaison with major stakeholders as well as to work hand in hand with the Financial Services and the Treasury Bureau (FSTB) on the valuation and financial aspects of the possible merger and the management of Government’s consultant(s) for the merger exercise.

Furthermore, the Executive Secretary highlighted the value of formalized frameworks for coordination, including the Asia-Pacific Regional Coordination Mechanism (RCM), to enhance accountability and coordination with other stakeholders in all aspects of the work of ESCAP and to bring the United Nations family together to deliver as one at the regional level.

It also prohibits unfair discrimination in the provision of goods, services or facilities, including facilities by way of banking or insurance or for grants, loans, credit or finance; access by the public to any place, vehicle, vessel, aircraft or hovercraft which members of the public are entitled or allowed to enter or use; the provision of land, housing or other accommodation; access to, and participation in, education.

(e) that the Director-General is authorized to advance during 2004-2005 sums not exceeding in total $500,000 at any one time, to finance self-liquidating expenditures, including those arising in connection with Trust Funds and Special Accounts; these sums are advanced pending availability of sufficient receipts from Trust Funds and Special Accounts, international bodies and other extrabudgetary sources; sums so advanced shall be reimbursed as rapidly as possible.