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[...] misidentified plants from Pamir Alai, Tajikistan.

Important achievements during 2004-2005 included initiatives on the Sustainable Management of Natural Resources in the High Pamir and Pamir-Alai Mountains; the inauguration of the UNU Summer School for Bird’s-eye View Experts on Environment as a new initiative to facilitate UNU’s role as a focal point in knowledge exchange to enhance holistic perspectives of global environmental issues; finalization of a global scientific review intended to lead to the harmonization of approaches for developing nutrient-based dietary standards; and development of a biotechnology and artworks preservation network to assist researchers and art restorers from developing countries in using modern biotechnology tools to conserve their cultural heritage.

They were ①ⅠAa:forest steppe and arid steppe in piedmont of Da Hinggan Mountain, east of Inner Mongolia Plateau and the area around, ⅠAb:arid steppes in Ningxia Plateau, Helan Mountain, center of Inner Monglia Plateau, Ordus Plateau and the area around, ⅠBa:Qinghai Tibet Plateau not including Qilin Mountain, and Pamir Plateau, ⅠBb:wide temperature desert from Alxa Desert to Tarim and Jungar Basin; ②ⅡA:east of Qilin Mountains, ⅡB:north slope of Qilin Mountain and its piedmont plains; ③ⅢA:Altay Mountain and the plains of south piedmont, ⅢBa:Emin Valley, boundary mountains of Jungar and its piedmont plains, ⅢBb:Tianshan Mountain in Ili and Ili Valley.

At its 1st meeting, on 29 April, the Committee elected, by acclamation, Vladimir Pavlovich (Belarus) Chair of the Committee for the fiftieth session.

[...] [...] Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominican Republic, Finland, Iceland, Libya, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Madagascar, New Zealand, Netherlands, Norway, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Poland, Portugal, Samoa, Senegal, Slovenia, [...] [...]

The Committee decided that the Working Group entrusted with the elaboration of a draft general recommendation on the economic consequences of marriage and its dissolution (Ruth Halperin Kaddari (Chair), Nicole Ameline, Violet Awori, Indira Jaising, Pramila Patten, Silvia Pimentel and Dubravka Šimonović) should present a revised draft to the Committee at its forty-fifth session for adoption at its fortyseventh session.

At the same meeting, statements were made by Nicolas Sarkozy, President of France (on behalf of the European Union); Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete, President of the United Republic of Tanzania (on behalf of the African Union); Emomali Rahmon, President of Tajikistan; Georgi Parvanov, President of Bulgaria; José Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission; Ángel Gurría, Secretary-General of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD); Fradique Bandeira Melo de Menezes, President of Sao Tome and Principe; James Alix Michel, President of Seychelles; Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President of the Islamic Republic of Iran; Laurent Gbagbo, President of Côte d’Ivoire; Óscar Arias Sánchez, President of Costa Rica; and Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi, President of the Comoros.

May I take it that it is the wish of the Assembly to confirm the reappointment by the Secretary-General of Mr. Emilio Cárdenas (Argentina) and Ms. Linah Mohohlo (Botswana) as regular members of the Investments Committee for a three-year term of office beginning on 1 January 2010, and the reappointment of Mr. Fernando Chico Pardo (Mexico) as a regular member of the Committee for a one-year term of office beginning on 1 January 2010?

At its 1st plenary meeting, on 9 May, statements were made by Abdullah Gül, President of the Republic of Turkey, President of the Conference; Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations; Joseph Deiss, President of the sixty-fifth session of the General Assembly; Boni Yayi, President of the Republic of Benin; José Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission; Jhala Nath Khanal, Prime Minister of the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal and Chair of the Global Coordination Bureau of the Group of Least Developed Countries; Pascal Lamy, Director-General of the World Trade Organization; and Ngozi OkonjoIweala, Managing Director of the World Bank.

Also at its 2nd meeting, the Committee was informed that Vladimir Pavlovich (Belarus), who was elected Rapporteur of the Committee for Programme and Coordination for its fifty-first session, would be unable to attend the session and had requested that the necessary arrangements be made for his replacement.

[...] [...] Kiribati, Marshall Islands (the), the Federated States of Micronesia, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Samoa, Solomon [...] [...]

[...] [...] Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Monaco, the Netherlands, Norway, Palau, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Turkey, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the United States of America, introduced a draft resolution entitled “Compliance [...] [...]

[...] [...] representative of Nepal, speaking on behalf of the Least Developed Countries (LDCs); the representative of Bangladesh, speaking on behalf of the Asian Group; the representative of Egypt, speaking on behalf of the African Group; the representative of Belgium, speaking on behalf of the European Union; the representative of the Dominican Republic, speaking on behalf of the Group of Latin American and Caribbean Countries (GRULAC); the representative of the United States of America; the representative of China; the representative of Turkey; the representative of Lesotho; the representative of France; the representative of Ethiopia; the representative of Thailand; the representative of the Bolivarian Republic [...] [...]

Afghanistan, Albania, Angola, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bhutan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brunei Darussalam, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Central African Republic, Chad, Czech Republic, Dominican Republic, Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Guatemala, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Honduras, Indonesia, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Latvia, Liberia, Liechtenstein, Malawi, Malaysia, Mali, Mauritania, Monaco, Myanmar, Nepal, Niger, Oman, Panama, Peru, Qatar, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Sri Lanka, Syrian Arab Republic, Ukraine, Uruguay, and Zimbabwe.

[...] [...] Comoros, Croatia, Cuba, Czech Republic, Dominican Republic, Egypt, France, Gabon, Ghana, Grenada, Jordan, Kuwait, Lithuania, Madagascar, Malaysia, Nepal, Netherlands, Pakistan, Philippines, Poland, Republic of Korea, Romania, Saint Lucia, Senegal, South Africa, Spain, Syrian Arab Republic, [...]

The application to extend the period of remand in custody is considered by a singlejudge court in a district or municipal criminal court or a district or territorial military court in the place where the offence was committed or where the pretrial investigation is being conducted; in the absence of the judge of that court or under circumstances which prevent him or her from participating in the examination of the case file, the application is considered by a judge from another appropriate court, designated by the President of the Supreme Criminal Court of the Republic of Qoraqalpog’iston, a criminal court of the city of Tashkent or a province or the Military Court of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

Furthermore, 3 provincial offices, budgeted in 2009, are to open before the end of the year in Lashkar Gah, Ghazni and Farah, and 6 additional provincial offices, included in the budget for 2010, are to be established in Logar, Paktika, Laghman, Panjsher, Takhar and Jawzjan (ibid., para. 6).

A study was carried out of the P73/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 comet on the basis of 27 direct images of fragment C taken with the Isaac Newton telescope at the Roque de Los Muchachos Observatory on the island of La Palma, Spain, and visual observations of the fragments made by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams.

At the time of my most recent briefing to the Council (see S/PV.6308), Nepal was in the fourth day of a national strike called by the Unified Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist (UCPN-M) seeking to compel the resignation of Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal.

The Committee decided that the working group on the role of non-governmental organizations (Dubravka Šimonović, Pramila Patten) with respect to the Convention and its Optional Protocol should present a revised draft based on comments received from members of the Committee for discussion at its forty-fifth session.

Unfortunately, by its reasoning, which was inconsistent with the weight of expert opinion among international law specialists, the Palmer Report had provided a formal justification for the continuing denial of fundamental human rights to the people of Gaza.

[...] [...] Denmark, Djibouti, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, [...] [...]

[...] [...] behalf of the State of Qatar as mediator and witness [...] [...]

In Africa, this includes Burundi, Central African Republic, Chad, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Uganda and Zimbabwe; in Asia, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Kashmir, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Myanmar/ Burma, Nepal, North Korea, Pakistan, Phillipines, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan; in Europe, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cyprus, Georgia, Kosovo, Serbia and Turkey; in the Middle East, the whole region from North Africa to Iran; and in Latin America, Colombia, the rest of the Andean region and Haiti.

[...] [...] engineering in Kashmir, as well as educational [...] [...]