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External sources (not reviewed)

In conjunction with the Office of the Legal Counsel, the Division assists in maintaining the privileges and immunities of the Organization with respect to the Organization’s tax and import and export exemptions and in connection with the immunities applicable to the Organization’s assets and personnel involved in United Nations peacekeeping operations; provides assistance regarding the interpretation and application of the Organization’s administrative law in peacekeeping operations and the interpretation and application of the Staff Regulations and Rules, the Financial Regulations and Rules and relevant policies and practices, including those relating to banking, asset custody and treasury operations; affords legal support for the resolution of complex claims, arbitrations and other litigation arising in peacekeeping operations,

The National Central Bureau carried out other specific work such as appointing the terrorism liaison official; linking the INTERPOL I-24/7 computer system and police units, giving the General Directorate of Migration and Immigration access to the Fixed Interpol Network Database and Mobile Interpol Network Database (FIND/MIND) to check passenger lists at the international airport in order to prevent terrorists from entering

Working on the social dimensions of global environmental change, the SHS Global Environmental Change Team will work in four complementary directions: (a) To identify the ethical and social challenges arising from global environmental change, including

(c) as it has been reported that the recent turmoil in the financial market has exposed loopholes in its monitoring and risk management mechanism, which allows high-risk investment products to be presented and sold as

At the end of 2008, it finished the planning and construction of the attached infrastructure for Jinzhan Disaster recovery Center, providing application-level disaster recovery for the IBS system and online

The Acting Deputy Executive Secretary of ESCAP in his welcoming address noted that the Asia-Pacific region had been affected by an increase in extreme weather events and had witnessed unprecedented large-scale

There are many opportunities for reducing the energy consumption of transport refrigeration

Adaptation actions shall include, inter alia: action at the project, sectoral and national levels; administrative and legislative actions; protection of

Concerned further by the negative impacts

Measures to improve energy use included diversifying energy sources and using them more efficiently in combination with cleaner fossil fuel technologies; developing a global liquefied natural gas market; accelerating the development of affordable energy conservation technologies and their transfer to oil- producing

(a) all demands, claims, actions, or judgments of a third party against any Seller Party, directly or indirectly, for any consequential, material, special, liquidated, punitive, or other damages, regardless of whether such demand, claim, action, or judgment is based on theories of contract, tort, negligence, strict liability, warranty, indemnity, contribution, statute, or otherwise, including without limitation, all demands, claims, actions, and judgments relating to injury and/or death of any and all

Options include: maintaining or restoring wetlands capable of absorbing floods; restoration of flood plains on rivers; protection or restoration of forests on steep slopes (through legislation, purchase, incentives or agreement); protection; good management or if necessary, restoration of natural coastal

In a country in which the large majority of its people live on less than $2 per day and with a relatively small revenue base, even problems that should be manageable — such as hikes in international oil prices, increases in rice prices, the failure to pay salaries on time,

The Secretary-General may request any clarification necessary from the author(s) of a

Mauritius was aware of the challenges and capacity constraints

To resubmit copies of the Iraqi documents held by Kuwait that were abandoned by Iraqi forces during the 1991 war of liberation, in order to allow the Iraqi side to closely examine them

Against this background, the member States identified the possible areas of activities to be undertaken by

The present report provides examples of adverse consequences and recent

The Advisory Committee was informed that the incumbent would be responsible for coordinating and liaising with various offices and entities, including with the Office of Information and Communications Technology to address issues related to the hosting of the system; the vendor in relation to the technical matters and upgrading of equipment; the Department of Safety and Security for perimeter security access control; the Umoja project