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The five factors with the most potential to cause slippage in projected estimates for completion of judgements on appeal are the delays associated with or caused by: (a) the nature of multi-appellant cases; (b) the inordinate amount of pre-appeal motions; (c) the inordinate length of time for translation of trial judgements into Bosnian/Croatian/ Serbian, as well as for translation of written submissions into one of the Tribunal’s working languages and Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, especially in cases of selfrepresented appellants; (d) amendments to grounds of appeal, especially following translation of the trial judgement (mainly for represented appellants); and (e) understaffing and/or lack of experience in appeals support.

The State party should consider modifying the procedure set out under article 65 of the Federal Act on Foreign Nationals with a view to providing more time for thorough consideration of appeals and an assessment of whether the principle of nonrefoulement is being violated, and to lending such appeals suspensive effect.

At the time the violation appeared, no domestic remedy was available to the author since no cassation appeal exists against the judgment of the presiding judge of the Court of Appeal.

Achieving the positive impact of trade liberalization on developing countries will also depend to a significant extent on international support for the above measures and actions against policies and practices that distort trade.

Regarding items to be covered, the United Kingdom agrees that the scope of the treaty should include all conventional weapons, including, at a minimum, manned or unmanned weapons; tanks; other military vehicles; artillery systems; military aircraft and helicopters; surface and submarine naval vessels armed or equipped for military use; missiles and missile systems, guided or unguided; small arms and light weapons; mines and other explosive devices; munitions for use with any of the above; parts or components specially and exclusively designed for any of the above; and technology and equipment specially and exclusively designed and used to develop, manufacture or maintain any of the above.

(c) For the application, in the case of persons of any such description as is mentioned in subsection (3) (or of persons connected with such persons), of the law with respect to adoption, marriage, divorce, burial, devolution of property on death or other like matters that is the personal law applicable to persons of that description.

The preparation of the study was overseen by my Special Adviser on Gender Issues and Advancement of Women in close cooperation with the Inter-Agency Task Force on Women, Peace and Security.

The Advisory Committee notes that the proposed adjustment of the base/floor salary scale for staff in the Professional and higher categories would have an impact on the annual cost implications in connection with the above-mentioned end-of-service severance pay for fixed-term contracts, as well as other payments directly linked to the base/floor salary.

The institutions set out in Appendix 5-A (“Monitoring Institutions and Roles”) will monitor and report on implementation of the activities in the previous annual implementation plans in accordance with their roles and responsibilities set out in Appendix 5-A. This monitoring will also be subject to independent verification as described in paragraph 4 above.

The Commission may wish to review the analysis and provide guidance, in particular on opportunities for regional cooperation in order to promote a supportive financial system and green growth strategies.

The Committee notes that she did not raise any grievance in respect of the appeals procedure to the various instances and that nothing in the case file suggests that the complainant has suffered any harm as a result of the lack of legal representation or the denial of legal aid.

Following my briefing, at the end of its meeting the Council adopted presidential statement S/PRST/2011/21, in which it encouraged UNOCA, in coordination with the United Nations Office to the African Union, to engage with the United Nations presences in the LRA-affected region and the AU to develop a regional strategy to address the threat posed by the LRA.

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For example, tuna fishery is by far the most valuable fishing activity in the Pacific region, contributing more than 10 per cent of GDP and over 50 per cent of exports in some Pacific small island developing States.

The report also confirmed once again Israel’s continuing practice of confiscating the private property of Syrian citizens in the occupied Golan, plundering its natural resources, including water resources, and creating settlements throughout the Golan and Palestine, using water as a means of exerting pressure on the Syrian population of the Golan, bulldozing and destroying their land, uprooting their fruit trees, blockading them economically and imposing exorbitant taxes on them, particularly on agricultural workers.

Those were potentially relevant to part (b) of the objectives of the workplan and would be considered at future workshops and carried forward into the discussion about potential additional work that would take place at the end of the series of workshops.

(d) Through amendments and supplements to the Legal Counsel Act, the Legal Practice and Lawyers’ Defence (Safeguards) Act, the Code of Criminal Procedure and the Code of Administrative Responsibility, the legal profession has been reformed to better balance the procedural rights of the prosecution and the defence, introduce the democratic institution of Miranda rights and make it an offence to obstruct the work of lawyers.

One delegate argued that local firms could do better than foreign firms in term of their impacts on productive capacity-building, and suggested avoiding discrimination against local firms through excessive incentives to TNCs and asked for giving equal treatment to foreign and local firms.

During their visit, the Working Group found that the challenges faced by people of African descent in Portugal related mainly to their lack of recognition as a specific group in the national policy and legal framework; the lack of recognition of their positive contribution throughout history to the construction and development of the country; the lack of qualitative and quantitative disaggregated data by racial or ethnic origin; the existence of a circle of poverty, unequal access to education, public services, employment, as well as discrimination in the administration and functioning of the justice system; existence of racial profiling and police violence; underrepresentation in political and institutional decision-making processes, as well as the lack of special measures or affirmative action policies in Portugal for people of African descent or other minorities.

The European Union had voted against a similar draft resolution at the sixty-second session and had hoped that it would have been possible for delegations to discuss the text of A/C.3/63/L.28 in informal consultations.

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A primary health assistance service which is well developed and supported by high performance means, with well organised prevention and treatment mechanisms, education and participation of the patient, as well as involvement of the entire community, including the local and central public administration authorities, may ensure a positive impact on the population health indicators in the Republic of Moldova.

Israel’s statements do not alter the fact that Israel possesses the largest, blackest record of terrorism, which would need an encyclopaedia, a museum and an archive to document and shed light on the crimes of genocide, war crimes and ethnic cleansing carried out against the Palestinians, the Syrians, the Lebanese, the Egyptians, the Jordanians and others by Israel throughout its bloody history.

The three main areas of intervention are (a) promoting public policies for strengthening the rule of law and the Millennium Development Goals; (b) institutional development of the criminal justice and penal systems and general security, based on local analyses; and (c) strengthening local and state capacities for conflict prevention and the construction of a culture of peace.