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The sequences that proved most successful with the television programmes concerned were, in the field of culture, those on the new sites placed on the World Heritage List, the thirtieth anniversary of the World Heritage Convention, the underwater heritage and the laying of the first stone in the reconstruction of Mostar Bridge, and, in the field of education, the sequence produced on the occasion of the joint UNESCO-ILO study on the shortage of teachers.

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The event was attended by Dr. Gou Jianhui, Managing Director and President Industrial of Schaeffler Greater China, Dr. Zhang Yilin, Deputy Managing Director and President Automotive of Schaeffler Greater China and other senior company leaders, along with Mr. Zhang Liping, Party Secretary of Anting Town, Jiading District, Mr. Rong Wenwei, General Manager of Shanghai International Automobile City (Group) Co.

The foundation stone has been laid by the Director-General of UNESCO, Ms Irina Bokova, and the Minister of Education of Ethiopia, Mr Demeke Mekonnen in a ceremony held on 23 February 2010.

Efforts are also being made towards the development of an overall culture strategy to mainstream culture in other development areas and to establish the basis for a national cultural statistics framework.

The results: there has been an institutional and normative strengthening of procedures and mechanisms for the assessment of draft laws and regulations from a gender perspective; a methodological basis for such assessments has been created; the Constitution, a number of codes, laws and legislation are now subject to assessment from a gender perspective; the President’s national council on questions relating to women, the family and gender mainstreaming is now functioning; it has become the practice of the Parliament to receive an assessment of proposed legislation from a gender perspective; the use of gender-disaggregated statistics has grown; a system of national mechanisms has been set up to monitor and evaluate the status of women; and standardized gender indicators have been produced on the basis of the Beijing Platform for Action, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and the Millennium Development Goals.

Viet Nam also saw this as an experience-sharing exercise, laying the ground for a better protection and promotion of human rights by the authorities.

I also look forward to the innovations that adopting Ethernet will make possible; we will soon be able to remove the need for additional I/O cards as Ethernet gives us a solid foundation for future developments.

As mentioned in the concerned Establishment Subcommittee paper, the WKCD Office is responsible for providing necessary support for the establishment of the WKCDA and providing administrative and secretariat support during the early stage after its establishment; taking charge of the financial management for the WKCD project; conducting recruitment exercises for the WKCDA; laying the ground work for the preparation of conceptual plans and Development Plan (DP) for the WKCD through conducting the Stage 1 public engagement (PE) exercise; and handling all issues relating to the collaborations between the Government and the WKCDA.

The problems that must be solved are: document registration of refugees (absence of identity documents hampers the right to employment); creation of conditions for social integration of recognised refugees, establishment of a legal background that would regulate the integration and its financial support; absence of a placement centre for foreigners that are to be expelled from the Republic of Moldova (the person which was refused the status of refugee, after using all possibilities of appeal, must leave the territory of the Republic of Moldova during 15 days after the final decision on the refusal of the application).

Environmental monitoring and public reporting forms the basis for institutions for sustainable development that will be able to realize those policy ambitions and meet the rising public demand for a cleaner environment.

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Reports on all cluster consultations were presented in plenary and will serve as a basis for future cluster consultations on programme activities envisaged in the new programme management cycle.

Life-cycle rituals – birth; rites of passage; wedding, divorce and funerary rituals; games and sports; kinship and ritual kinship ceremonies; settlement patterns; culinary arts; designation of status and prestige ceremonies; seasonal ceremonies; [...] [...]

At Headquarters, various steps have been/are being taken to: (i) strengthen the role of BFC, as the voice of the field at Headquarters, in staffing and resourcing terms; (ii) introduce the functions of regional field office focal points at mid- to senior-GS level, under the authority of the EOs of each sector as primary focal and entry points for the field in each sector; and (iii) enhance cooperation between BFC and ERC in terms of both the political and protocol backstopping of ERC staff for relevant situations encountered in the field and also of the all-important cooperation with National Commissions.

Currently, with a very modest capacity (1 P-5 and 1 GS (OL) posts located in Brussels and 1 P-4 post and 3 general temporary assistance positions located at Headquarters), the Division, on behalf of DPKO and DFS, builds and maintains partnerships, both within and outside the United Nations, to lay the foundation for improved operational relationships in the field.

During that session, the Working Group agreed that the exchange of information relevant to the peaceful exploration and use of outer space provided an important basis for its work under the multi-year workplan and allowed it to continue examining the main developments taking place at the national level in order to identify common principles, norms and procedures (A/AC.105/935, annex III, para. 16).

The Ministry of Environment has ensured -and will assure in the future- passage of all necessary national laws and regulations, including establishing an import licensing system which allows to establish annual maximum admissible import quantities for Chile of substances that are regulated under the Montreal Protocol, its amendments and its annexes and set the basis for control of HCFCs into the country.

In order to establish a long-term incentive mechanism closely linked with the Company’s business performance and long-term strategy, so as to help optimise the overall remuneration structure and create a competitive advantage in human resources that will contribute to the long-term, sustainable growth of the Company’s operation, the Remuneration and Evaluation Committee of the Board of Directors of the Company has formulated the Phase I Share Incentive Scheme of the Company, which has come into effect upon approval by the general meeting of the Company.

In order to lay the foundation for closing these gaps it is important therefore, before undertaking any assessment, to understand and explore the conceptual linkages between the MDGs measurement metrics and WIPO’s RBM framework.