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Specific activities that assisted countries in relation to terrorism targeted at food products included: (a) capacity-building (training courses, projects) concerning food safety, animal and plant health, including promotion of risk analyses and developing base-level capacity to ensure national ability to monitor, diagnose, report and respond to pest and disease outbreaks; (b) the standard setting work of the Codex Alimentarius Commission and the International Plant Protection Convention; (c) the establishment of a Food Chain Crisis Management Framework for prevention, early warning, preparedness and response to food chain crises caused by transboundary animal and plant pests and diseases, food safety threats and emergencies, as well as nuclear and radiological threats and emergencies; and the organization of international forums to discuss biological risk management in relation to food and agriculture.

This would assist the Arab region in tackling problems of population growth and changing urban environments with its attendant youth unemployment, social unrest (including youth extremism) and the unravelling of family ties.

Strengthening should be accorded to the protection of the environment, a culture of maintenance, and the use of renewable energies so as to help Member States in the Arab region to tackle global environmental problems such as pollution and depletion of natural resources.

[...] [...] States to combat acts of xenophobia.

It was stressed that a sound legislative basis was an essential part of ensuring a fair and effective justice system for children and youth and that it was also necessary to address the conditions underlying criminal behaviour if meaningful, long-term solutions were to be achieved.

It also welcomed recommendations to develop a comprehensive strategy to reduce domestic violence in Tuvalu, including through raising public awareness and encouraging greater involvement by government agencies and civil society in efforts to address domestic violence and gender discrimination.

As President Obama said today, when a leader’s only means of staying in power is to use mass violence against its own people, he has lost the legitimacy to rule and needs to do what is right for his country, by leaving now.

[...] [...] to be set in countering the world drug problem [...]

[...] [...] the operations against the mutineers.

Furthermore, new partnerships could be formed around the development and diffusion of green technologies, in order to mitigate the impacts of climate change and to combat threats to food and energy security.

Recognizing the complex character of the current global food crisis as a combination of several major factors, both structural and conjunctural, also negatively affected by, inter alia, environmental degradation, drought and desertification, global climate change, natural disasters and the lack of the necessar y technology, and recognizing also that a strong commitment from national Governments and the international community as a whole is required to confront the major threats to food security

The challenges for the region were to maintain a balance between growth and inflation, manage short-term capital inflows, reduce rising socioeconomic inequalities, deal with jobless growth, and increase social safety nets.

Education must cater for the psychological or mental state of the child; assist the child to cope with the emergency; danger; threat or manipulation.

We are also deeply concerned about the impact that the illicit trade in small arms has on human rights, as small arms are being used by armed groups against civilian populations, in particular in terrible practices of child recruitment and gender-based violence.

Many developing countries and countries with economies in transition are, however, confronting a double burden of fighting emerging and re-emerging communicable diseases, such as HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, in parallel with the increasing threat of non-communicable diseases.

As argued in a report to the General Assembly at its sixty-fourth session (A/64/350), the response to the climate change threat must have multiple prongs: strongly addressing the mitigation challenge head on in ways that are supportive of sustainable development; promoting inclusive economic growth in developing countries as a key means of building resilience and adaptive capacities; urgently increasing international financial and technical support for the adaptation of developing countries, especially vulnerable countries; strengthening institutions at the local level to manage resource scarcities and environmental stresses peacefully; and strengthening the United Nations and other international institutions to be able to provide effective humanitarian, reconstruction and development support to countries faced with climate-related disasters and longer-term impacts.

In that resolution, the Conference also decided to continue to exchange information on experience and practices on the application of the Convention to new forms and dimensions of transnational organized crime.

The unilateral and illegal military aggression of NATO against a country which did not carry out a single act of war sets an unfortunate precedent which could be used at the convenience of the empire against any nation of the South that gets in the way of its policy of domination.

On the basis that (a) the United States reservation is correctly interpreted as a narrow reservation focused on the use of incendiary weapons against biological weapons, or similar counter-proliferation, facilities that require high heat to eliminate the biotoxins, in the interests of preventing potentially disastrous consequences for the civilian population, (b) the United States reservation is not otherwise intended to detract from the obligation to take all feasible precautions in the choice of means and methods of attack with a view to avoiding, and in any event to minimising incidental loss of civilian life, injury to civilians and damage to civilian objects, and (c) the object and purpose of the Protocol can properly be said to be to protect civilians from the collateral damage associated with the use of incendiary weapons, the United Kingdom would not object to the reservation as contrary to the object and purpose of the Protocol.69 36.

For example, some States have started to implement special training for law enforcement authorities, judges and prosecutors to address the challenges in investigating Internet-related crimes and to provide intensified technical assistance for police authorities in order to promote and improve police investigations on the Internet and ensure swift and efficient prosecution (see E/CN.15/2009/14).

The presentations and discussions at this session focused on these challenges and on ways in which they may be effectively addressed, particularly with a view to the concerns of developing countries.

[...] [...] mitigation measures to cope with existing and [...]

The mission was mandated to collect information on (a) the influx of unemployed returnees, including migrant workers, former combatants from Libya and armed Tuareg and Toubou elements into these countries, as well as the impact that their return is having on the socio-economic and political stability in the host communities; (b) the inflow of weapons into the region and the proliferation of small arms and light weapons, surface-to-air missiles and explosives; (c) the nature and the extent of criminal and terrorist activities in these countries and ongoing regional initiatives to address them; (d) the impact on the security sector; (e) the national operational capacity of the security sector; (f) judicial reform; (g) additional efforts needed to address the root causes of recurrent food insecurity and malnutrition, as well as other humanitarian issues; (h) youth unemployment; and (i) disaster risk evaluation.

[...] [...] Crime Convention to new forms and dimensions [...] [...]

The Bretton Woods institutions must continue, within their respective mandates, to help developing countries to deal with the adverse effects of exogenous shocks, such as large fluctuations in the prices of key commodities, for example, through the reformed IMF Exogenous Shocks Facility.

Fifteen years after the Copenhagen Summit, it was time to assess the efforts made and the commitments honoured and to redefine the plans and strategies of economic and social development so as to take into account the social impact of the economic and financial crisis.

[...] its resolve to confront this threat [...] [...]

Recognizing that the complex character of the global food crisis, in which the right to adequate food is threatened to be violated on a massive scale, is a combination of several major factors, such as the global financial and economic crisis, environmental degradation, desertification and the impacts of global climate change, as well as natural disasters and the lack in many countries of the appropriate technology, investment and capacity-building necessary to confront its impact, particularly in developing countries, least developed countries and small island developing States

The workshop was aimed at developing national capacity to deal with these priority areas of disaster risk management and enabling the country to deal effectively with other potential impacts of climate change, including the melting of glaciers, drought and desertification, spread of pests and diseases and sea-level rise.