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[...] [...] Palestine and bring about peace [...]

Chinese leaders are coming to understand that their state companies’ investments abroad have contributed far more to those companies’ profits than to improving the country’s energy security.

A second direction for new initiatives will probably be found in outreach for raising awareness among the general public on the potential of our planet for future generations and to encourage young people to learn more about our home planet, its powers, its beauty and its challenges.

In order to respond effectively in today’s fast moving global media environment, and to exploit the opportunities presented by the exponential growth of new communications platforms, the Secretariat will need to build up a multilingual communications skills base, particularly in flexible content creation, web and new media management, media production, and marketing.

[...] acknowledging various positive impacts on the venue countries, had indicated that [...] [...]

The reduction in servers has a direct benefit on capital expenses for server hardware purchases, and additional financial benefit of reducing associated operating costs of power, cooling, and maintenance, delivering a highly reduced total cost of ownership (TCO) solution.

In addition, many delegations expressed the view that the persistence of restrictive rules of origin and non-tariff trade barriers, such as standards and technical measures, as well as severe supply constraints and a trade-related infrastructure deficit, had prevented least developed countries from fully harnessing the gains associated with greater market access.

Persons living in poverty are often unable to reap the benefits of scientific progress and its applications in an equal manner.

[...] [...] resource planning would bring about.

[...] [...] projects in order to adhere to the compliance [...] [...]

Delegates recognized the need for governments in the region to strengthen national programmes and policies for the conservation and sustainable use of genetic resources for food and agriculture, and for the fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from their use, including through adequate and predictable funding.

Other areas proposed for inclusion in mainstreaming approaches were: indigenous peoples; post-conflict countries and countries experiencing violence and conflict; culture of peace/peace-building; environment and environmental education; marginalized and vulnerable groups of society; people with disabilities; information on HIV/AIDS and malaria; dialogue among civilizations, cultures and peoples; promotion of cultural diversity and intercultural dialogue; Haiti; talented children; domains of education and culture; the Central Asia region; social and cultural challenges related to globalization; role of media and their relation with culture; and small island developing states (SIDS).

[...] [...] programmes and must be seen as an investment [...] [...]

The effects of the structural adjustment programme were particularly disastrous for vulnerable groups and significantly increased the number of people living in hardship; huge inequalities appeared between the rural and urban populations, and between the capital and the other towns.

Millions of children inside Syria and across the region are witnessing their past and their futures disappear amidst the rubble and destruction of this prolonged conflict.

The delegation of India, while noting the valuable work carried out by the Regional Specialized Meteorological Centre to provide tropical cyclone-related forecasts and advisories to countries in the region, expressed support for the plan of the Panel on Tropical Cyclones to establish an integrated drought management programme to include various aspects of drought as well as socioeconomic impacts at the national and subnational levels.

[...] [...] that might raise the risks to the UNRWA [...] [...]

[...] [...] spread risk brought about by climate [...]

[...] [...] interventions and risking political instability; [...] [...]

She also drew attention to paragraph 67 of the first report of the Advisory Committee on the proposed programme budget for the biennium 2000-2001 (A/54/7), in which the Advisory Committee had noted that the use of the phrase “within existing resources” or similar language in resolutions had a negative impact on the implementation of activities; therefore, efforts should be made to avoid the use of that phrase in resolutions and decisions.

Remaining deeply concerned also that the global financial and economic crisis, climate change and the food crisis pose a serious challenge to the fight against poverty and hunger, as well as to the efforts of developing countries to attain food security and achieve the objective of reducing by half the number of undernourished people by no later than 2015 as well as the other internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals, and reiterating that the global food crisis has multiple and complex causes and that its consequences require a comprehensive and coordinated response, including the adoption of political, economic, social, financial and technical solutions in the short, medium and long term by national Governments and the international community

[...] [...] Organization and those who lead its Member States; scholars, students and teachers who see in their work a discernible United Nations “impact”; college students who adapt the dynamism of the General Assembly’s possibilities to a “Global Model United Nations” that is entirely their own; non-governmental organizations and individuals who breathe new life into long-debated topics with [...] [...]

One delegation drew the attention of the Commission to the problems created by the proliferation of physical working groups held in various countries, which created an additional burden on developing countries and also proposed that they should be listed in the schedule of Codex sessions.

[...] [...] Multilateral Fund, and how these technologies [...] [...]

Therefore, at the outset, Bosnia and Herzegovina calls for the urgent resumption of negotiations that will lead, within an agreed time frame, to a two-State solution, with the State of Israel and an independent, democratic, contiguous and viable State of Palestine living side by side in peace and security.

[...] [...] tragedy and bring peace and security to the Palestinian and Israeli peoples with the achievement of a lasting, comprehensive peace based on the two-State solution [...] [...]

Indeed, by adopting the Declaration on the midterm review of the Almaty Programme of Action, they had given renewed hope to the millions of people who dreamed of being able to transport their products as far as the sea and store them securely; to circulate their goods without restrictions; to exploit fully those sectors where they had a competitive advantage; to benefit from the opportunities offered by their full participation in global trade; and, lastly, to participate in, and enjoy all the benefits of, globalization, thereby escaping from the poverty imposed on them by the geographical situation of their country.

In that regard, the Marshall Islands called upon the international community to assist it in addressing the issue of climate change, and to focus not only on building capacity and partnerships, but also on providing assistance with specific, “shovelready” projects that would produce visible, concrete and measurable results in safeguarding communities and resources.