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The columnist Al Maeena concluded as follows: “That would send a message to the 14 million or so expatriates currently living in the Gulf Cooperation Council that it is time now to consider other options.

At that session, the Commission agreed that: (i) any future review should be based on the previous deliberations on the subject in the Commission, the observations by France and the United States (A/CN.9/635 and A/CN.9/639, respectively), and the note by the Secretariat (A/CN.9/638 and addenda), which was considered as providing a particularly important historical overview of the establishment and evolution of UNCITRAL rules of procedure and methods of work; (ii) the Secretariat should be entrusted with the preparation of a working document describing current practices of the Commission with the application of rules of procedure and methods of work, in particular as regards decision-making and participation of non-State entities in the work of UNCITRAL, distilling the relevant information from its previous note (A/CN.9/638 and addenda); this working document would serve for future deliberations on the subject in the Commission in formal and informal settings.

We believe that the reason such violations persist is due not to the incapacity of the almost fully integrated legal and humanitarian framework established by the United Nations and represented in international legal instruments on this issue — including the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949 and its two Additional Protocols of 1977 and the resolutions and presidential statements issued by the Security Council on the protection of civilians — but lies rather in the non-compliance of some states parties with their respective obligations under these instruments and the selective approach in their implementation in some areas of conflict.

A set of flagship publications have been planned with regional lens, which include (i) The Arab Region 2025, which will forecast and analyse current and future trends for the region in economic, social, political and cultural areas; (ii) Transitions to Democracy, which looks into the nature of political changes in Arab countries and analyses the lessons learned from political transitions in other areas of the world to draw conclusions and best practices on the policy options available to ensure effective and sustainable transitions to democracy; (iii) Arab Regional Integration, which analyses the potential areas and characteristics of integration be they social, economic, cultural or political and assessing their prospective impact on the long-term development of the region; and (iv) a joint publication with other Regional Commissions on Beyond the MDGs: A Future United Nations Development Agenda.

[...] [...] inconsistent with World Trade Organization rules and obligations and supply-side constraints, in particular lack of infrastructure and modern technologies and energy deficiency.

No one, not even the Burmese, really knows how many Chinese are now resident in Myanmar.

She stressed the need to move beyond deliberations to forge a set of comprehensive action-oriented recommendations that would supplement existing activities and measures to ensure that the rights of the child were a living reality, one in which children were no longer viewed in the context of “to become” in the future, but of “being” in the present.

[...] [...] the Organization of achieving gender balance, particularly at senior levels, and proposing concrete steps to foster a gender-sensitive work environment; providing advocacy and counsel to female staff; contributing to the development and realization of gender targets; monitoring progress towards the achievement of gender targets; advising on the staff selection [...] [...]

[...] against their expulsion to Afghanistan: first, that they sought asylum in Sweden, which is considered to be a serious crime in Afghanistan; second, that the first complainant is registered with the Afghan secret police because of having worked as an interpreter for asylum-seekers in Sweden; third, that some of their father’s old enemies are officials in the present Government and they will be killed because their name is known.

[...] [...] made many enemies in Afghanistan, who are now officials in the present Government, and they fear to be killed if returned, simply on the basis of their name.

Despite much debate on the question of existing stocks, there could be greater consideration of [...]

[...] experienced is the challenge of running some of the older educational applications which were not designed for use over this type of network and these minor issues are now all being ironed out.

(d) State of weapon: A complete system requires several component parts that do not come together in the same crate; for example, for the SA-7b found in Libya, a gripstock will not be delivered in the same box as launch tubes and batteries.

Now do you see why we highly recommend VIROMET to be used strictly without interfacing with other Lead Free material for the benefit of heat [...] [...]

[...] [...] Mandate Palestine, and for which there is now an historic opportunity to finally fulfil [...] [...]

The Commission may wish to review the analysis and provide guidance on policy directions and choices for the building and strengthening of social protection systems in Asia and the Pacific as a critical contribution to meeting the development goals of poverty eradication and exerting a positive impact on economic growth, social cohesion and social development.

Indeed, many speakers agreed with the sentiment echoed in the debate that progress for women is progress for all.

that the new authorities in Libya, which have emerged as a result of the revolution of the Libyan people against injustice, will give the highest priority to the achievement of justice, for there can be no security without justice, and democracy, development and prosperity cannot be achieved without security.

The committee’s reasoning, particularly in paragraph 7.3, would make it possible for the gravest violations of, say, United Nations Security Council sanctions or rules adopted within the framework of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna (CITES) to enjoy impunity just as long as their acts or their responsibility for the acts remained undetected until the sanctions were eventually lifted once the situation justifying them had been resolved or the [...] [...]

It is noteworthy that programmes implemented by the Office in the area education focused on the following strategic areas of support, all directly responding to strategies and results contained in Kenya Education Sector Support Programme (KESSP), the education sector’s plan to materialize Vision 2030: strengthening [...] [...]

[...] 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 [...] [...]

(i) Legal liability of the registered medical practitioner for performing an organ transplant on a patient without first obtaining the latter's consent because of his illness or impaired state of consciousness or his being a minor, a mentally incapacitated person; whether relatives of a patient who could not give consent might give consent on behalf of the patient; and what would happen if the relatives had no consensus on whether to give consent.

It is evident that the orientation of the proposed areas along the axis of the Clarion and Clipperton fracture zones rather than parallel to lines of latitude and longitude complicates the management of these areas with respect to contractor areas, both current and future.

[...] [...] economies are some of the disturbing realities that this simmering Somali situation [...]