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External sources (not reviewed)

We recommend the SSE to follow international best practice standards and require mainland extractive companies to annually provide details on payments (taxes, fees, royalties, bonuses and other significant payments) to domestic and host governments on a country-by-country and a project-by-project basis.

In accordance with the provisions of Article IV, paragraph 14, of the Constitution, Rule 6, paragraph 7, of the Rules of Procedure and Section I.8.1 of the Directives concerning UNESCO’s relations with non-governmental organizations, the Director-General will notify organizations maintaining formal relations with UNESCO of the convening of the session and invite them to send observers.

The majority of the other loans are commercial loans held by the Malaysia operation and which are all investment graded by two local rating agencies.

[...] [...] Issue Mandate to the Directors, in the terms set out in the notice of the Annual [...] [...]

For the biennium 2010–2011, adoption of Council decision 2009/251 would give rise to requirements of $125,600 under section 2 (General Assembly and Economic and Social Council affairs and conference management) of the proposed programme budget to provide for conference servicing of the working group for a total of four two-day meetings, with interpretation in the six official languages of the United Nations; and $30,000 under section 16 (International drug control, crime and terrorism prevention and criminal justice) for the travel of representatives to the reconvened sessions.

The adoption of the resolution by the Human Rights Council gives rise to estimated total additional requirements of $163,500, to hold a one-day workshop under (a) section 23, Human rights, of an amount $79,400 consisting of travel costs for 10 experts (2 from each regional group) ($64,500) and consultant services for two months ($14,900); (b) section 2, General Assembly and Economic and Social Council affairs and conference management for conference servicing ($84,100); and (c) section 28E, Administration, Geneva, for administrative support ($700).

[...] 24.9% in percentage terms in allocation for [...] [...]

The draft programme of work (see annex) has been prepared bearing in mind paragraph (b) of rule 99 of the rules of procedure of the General Assembly, Assembly decision 65/539 on the programme of work of the Third Committee for the sixty-sixth session, the provisional agenda of the sixty-sixth session (A/66/150), relevant resolutions and decisions adopted by the Assembly on the rationalization of its work and that of the Third Committee, as well as past experience in the utilization of conference services.

[...] Group’s fixed rate loans are repayable after [...]

For the three sessions of the meetings of the new committee to be held in the biennium 2010-2011, that is, one session in Geneva in 2010 and two sessions to be held in New York in 2011, additional conference-servicing requirements of $501,200 would arise, comprising of $481,200 under section 2, General Assembly and Economic and Social Council affairs and conference management, and $20,000 under section 28D, Office of Central Support Services, for other support services, of the programme budget for the biennium 2010-2011, after deducting the existing provision of $845,500 provided to the two sessions of the Committee of Experts on International Cooperation in Tax Matters.

[...] agreed heads of terms for long-term crude [...] [...]

It is estimated that additional conference-servicing requirements of $1,122,300 would arise, including $1,116,500 under section [...] [...]

[...] increase in percentage terms is mainly due to [...] [...]

In order to provide full service for the high-level review, the Secretariat would seek to identify resources that could be redeployed from the provisions to be made under Section 2, General Assembly and Economic and Social Council affairs and conference management, and Section 28D, Office of Central Support Services, of the proposed programme budget for the biennium 2010-2011, despite the fact that the modalities contained in draft resolution A/C.2/64/L.46 exceeded those planned by the Department for General Assembly and Conference Management in its draft calendar of conferences and meetings for 2010-2011.

Should the draft resolution be adopted by the Council, a total amount of $197,000 would be required to implement activities, under section 2 (General Assembly and Economic and Social Council Affairs and Conference Management) ($114,400); section 23 (Human Rights) ($81,000); and section 28 E (Administration, Geneva) ($1,600).

[...] [...] different terms, or the terms of an existing [...] [...]

Contributions received through UNDP [...]

The net decrease reflects reductions under most objects of expenditure, including $242,800 under consultants, mainly as a consequence of the increased use of in-house expertise, where possible; $104,700 under experts, resulting mainly from concerted efforts to combine meetings or reduce the number of experts and the duration of meetings, whenever possible; $121,200 under travel of staff, mainly attributable to increased utilization of video conferencing, combining trips and/or reducing the duration of travel as much as possible; $460,800 under contractual services, primarily owing to increased utilization of electronic means of disseminating publications; $111,000 under furniture and equipment, reflecting reduced requirements for the replacement of furniture and office equipment resulting from extending the lifespan of furniture and equipment; and $781,600 under grants and contributions, mainly owing [...] [...]

Optimized for short-haul operations, the "comfortably greener," 70- to 80-seat Q400 aircraft is a large, fast, quiet and fuel-efficient turboprop.

Most of these contributions are handed over [...]

The DFID annual allocation (approximately £250,000) funds the health-care [...] [...]

He said that additional contributions amounting to approximately US $25 million had been received from Austria, Latvia and the United States of America since the document had been issued, and that the Fund’s balance stood at US $67,034,991.

The fair values of cash and cash equivalents, non-pledged time deposits maturing over three months, pledged deposits, trade receivables, trade and bills payables, finance lease payable, financial assets included in prepayments, deposits and other receivables, financial liabilities included in other payables and accruals, amounts due from/to subsidiaries, and amounts due from the immediate holding company approximate to their carrying amounts largely due to the short term maturities of these instruments.

The present crisis in the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya is likely to have a further adverse impact on local livelihoods in West Africa, especially in Mali and the Niger, as a result of the significant drop of the remittance inflow from migrant workers.

[...] [...] need another one-time allocation in 2009 of [...] [...]

[...] 2, paragraph 1, of annex II to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf [...] [...]