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[...] [...] session and thus (owing to the rules governing elections, which establish that the Nominations Committee meets once the 48-hour deadline for the submission of nominations has expired) the best possible date for the first election to take place falls within the [...]

[...] [...]

In most countries, intermodal transport is limited due to a lack of capacity in dry ports.

[...] [...] meetings of the UNCTs, UNSTs and various United Nations theme and joint groups (outside of the ones in Jamaica) is limited, and done mainly through e-mail contributions and teleconference (where possible).

In section V, paragraph 11, of the same resolution, the General Assembly requested the Secretary-General to seek a more effective strategy to fill current and future language post vacancies at all duty stations in a timely manner, took note of paragraph 92 of the report of the Secretary-General on the pattern of conferences (A/63/119 and Corr.1), and also requested the Secretary-General to hold the competitive examinations for the recruitment of language staff referred to in that paragraph, as well as other examinations beyond 2009, well in advance so as to fill current and future language post vacancies at all duty stations in a timely manner, and to inform the Assembly at its sixty-fourth session of efforts in that regard.

[...] carry the risk of restricting farmers’ rights [...] [...]

[...] naval forces close to the coast of Somalia to contain and disrupt the activities of pirate groups has proved effective for the Gulf of Aden, but has led to a geographical expansion of pirate operations into the Red Sea, the Somali Basin and further off the coast [...]

[...] had been gradually restricted in recent years, with journalists under [...] [...]

According to one point of view, the scope of the provision should be restricted by a reference to the criterion of intention, in order to prohibit the use by a State of an expulsion procedure in [...] [...]

[...] [...] adversely affected by restrictions on seed saving and [...]

Introducing the Advisory Committee’s report on the financing of UNMEE (A/64/660/Add.1), she said that, in his report (A/64/586 and Corr.1), the SecretaryGeneral recommended that the General Assembly should return credits to Member States in the amount of $9,353,300, representing the net cash available in the Special Account of the Mission from the balance of credits in respect of the 2007/08 financial period; take note of the amount of $5,383,100, representing the remaining balance of credits due to Member States from the 2007/08 period, and of the amount of $9,361,600, representing credits due to Member States from the 2008/09 period; and defer until its sixty-fifth session a decision on the treatment of the total amount of $14,744,700, comprising the balance of credits due from both periods.

[...] [...] acquired by the White Helmets, as recognized by the General Assembly since the adoption of its resolution 49/139 B, the first resolution on the White Helmets initiative, and [...] [...]

The objective is to promote effective use of ICTs in education in Asia and the Pacific by providing suitable training to teachers and other professionals concerned, and by implementing relevant activities that can maximize the potential of ICTs in education.

[...] [...] destruction and their means of delivery to aggressive end-users, to countries under arms embargoes or under restrictive measures and thereby reducing the possibility of nuclear, chemical or biological conflict.

There is limited ability in the bureaucracy to deal with the workload of regulations and management that [...]

First, the advent of biotechnology, and in particular genetic engineering, in the last twenty years has vastly [...] [...]

Three particularly important aspects of the theme were addressed during the debate: access of all to emerging knowledge societies; lifelong education for all, and the universities of the future.

Additional engagement in this field is necessary and important in order not only to maximize the national performance, by improving domestic efficacy in preventing and suppressing, in particular, illicit trafficking and smuggling of these weapons and related equipment, but also to assist neighbouring countries in their efforts and in upgrade the level of regional cooperation in this particular field.

[...] migrating as a result of the effects of climate change, as well as other environmental threats and limited economic opportunities.

Inconclusive evidence of the presence of maize, an important cereal crop throughout the pre-Columbian world, at Norte Chico sites has led archaeologists to speculate whether maize agriculture helped spur major cultural advances that occurred along the Pacific coast of Peru from roughly 3000 to 1800 B.C.

[...] [...] sub-division, one or more of the shares may have any such preferred or other special rights, over, or may have such deferred rights or be subject to any such restrictions as compared with the others as the Company has power to attach to unissued or new shares.

[...] of divine messages, ascension [...]

Some of those parties, including India, had taken proactive regulatory actions to limit production of HCFCs in facilities in their countries beyond those required for compliance with the relevant control schedule, thus achieving a significant reduction of the potential impact of those substances on the ozone layer.

[...] [...] process to the maximum extent and that they would not become victims of discrimination due to being [...]

These objectives might best be served by a general convention, which would make it possible to preserve a maximum of the peace-time status quo, to restore such a status speedily, and to protect the rights of individuals from neutral States.

[...] meetings with various Government interlocutors, the Special Rapporteur highlighted several domestic laws that continue to be used to restrict fundamental freedoms, [...] [...]

The three fundamental goals of the PRS are: dynamic development and economic growth, focusing on job creation in the private sector; prevention of new poverty as a consequence of the forthcoming modernization and restructuring and the rationalization of State and its fundamental functions; efficient implementation of existing programmes and creation of new programmes, measures and activities directly targeting the poorest and socially most vulnerable groups, with a focus on the underdeveloped regions (children, the elderly, persons with disabilities, refugees and internally displaced persons, the Roma, the rural population and the undereducated), particularly in the least developed regions.