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We collectively commit to finding lasting solutions to the complex and mutually exacerbating challenges and problems of the least developed countries.

We are doing all of this while relying on our existing staffing resources — which are already stretched thin — and engaging in full-time efforts to complete our core judicial work.

The oversight bodies also have an important role to play to ensure the likelihood of the implementation of recommendations by: issuing recommendations that include a clear and workable proposal for their implementation; providing mechanisms that promote action and follow up on oversight recommendations and foster discipline to pursue full and timely implementation; focusing on critical issues with substantial impact on functional effectiveness in oversight reports and avoiding an excessively large number of recommendations that may have a “crowding-out effect” and stretch thin the Secretariat’s capacity to respond; and applying a consistent risk-based approach to oversight which will ensure that highrisk recommendations/areas are given priority.

[...] [...] indispensable for achieving the Millennium Development Goals: “it is increasingly clear that success will require an approach which redefines the relationship between the government and civil society”.8 Secondly, local government is increasingly stretching itself to the limits of its capabilities for several different reasons: limited [...] [...]

At the same time, the internationally renowned actress and long-time UNICEF advocate said she’d been deeply touched by the way ordinary Lebanese families – themselves very poor – had opened up their homes and hearts to the incoming refugees.

The objective of the proposed voluntary surrender scheme for poultry farmers is to reduce as much as possible the number of poultry farms in Hong Kong, in particular the very small ones which are unable to implement the required biosecurity measures fully because of physical and other constraints, and allow those poultry farmers who do not wish to operate in the new environment to cease their operation permanently.

Due to domestic pressures, donor countries’ budgets are stretched, and changes in food aid funding mechanisms pose a significant challenge to UNRWA to meet food requirements for the poor.

A host of concrete proposals were suggested to the coordinators of the Dialogue, such as: dialogue and networking among universities; dialogue among young scientists, involving UNESCO chairholders in dialogue activities; dialogue among student journalists and seasoned media practitioners from both regions; the holding of youth forums; reactivation of the Committee for the Translation of Literary Works and increase in the translation of Arabic works into European languages; a comparative study of school textbooks; dialogue involving professionals from cultural industries; the organization of an interregional conference on the image of Arab-Islamic culture in European history books.

[...] [...] development and upgrade substantive skills.

As the World Bank has pointed out, it seems hardly desirable that developing countries should divert resources from over-burdened health and education budgets to subsidise the administration of IPRs.

Furthermore, anecdotal evidence suggests that those impacts have overstretched the already limited coping capacities of small island developing States to the point where they are lagging behind, thus increasing their exposure.

However, their hands remain tied at present because consumers are unconvinced of the benefits, non-governmental organizations continue to actively oppose biotechnology, and Danish food retailers are not interested in marketing GM-labelled food.

Human-resource shortage and lack of skilled labour were structural constraints that had an impact on private and public sector performance.

Fairness to the public is also a legitimate consideration, and in so far as police officers in the exercise of their duties are prosecuting and protecting the public interest, it is the function of the Court to seek to provide a proper balance to secure that the rights of individuals are properly preserved, while not hamstringing the police in their investigation of crime with a series of academic vetoes which ignore the realities and practicalities of the situation and discount completely the public interest.

With already stretched capacity and resources, Pacific island countries face a significant challenge in managing this global common in a sustainable manner and equitably benefiting from its sustainable development.

Compared with the predecessor the occupants on all three rows of seats have more shoulder room, elbow room and headroom.

Concrete follow-up initiatives have included the organization of specific training sessions with a view to stimulating decision- and policy-makers to enact the right of universal online access to public and government-held records, to identify and promote repositories of information and knowledge in the public domain and to make them accessible to all, as well as to undertake the preservation and digitization of public domain information held by governments.

Migration makes planning difficult, leads to the outflow of medical personnel from rural areas and overstretches service capacity in overpopulatedgher districts (poor peri-urban areas) in the cities.

[...] [...] Small Island Developing States and [...] [...]

He was only replaced after much delay and in the midst of confusion, which led to delays and cost overruns on the project, and more work for the UNESCO team which was already understaffed.

Efforts by law enforcement agencies to curb criminality continued to be hampered by logistical, financial and human resource constraints facing the national security institutions and the proliferation of arms in the country.

Networks for such data collection such as the Costa Rica Permanent Sample Plot network (coordinated by the National University) and the institute of the Amazon Initiative in Brazil are extremely important but extremely underfunded.

As we have heard, the number and scope of United Nations peace operations are approaching what may be their highest levels ever, improving prospects for conflict resolution but stretching the capacities of the system.

[...] [...] constraint by Management or other [...]

[...] [...] railways and power generation, [...]

[...] [...] shoulders, elbows, wrists, hips, knees and ankles with elegant and effective arthroscopic (“keyhole”) surgeries.