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Humid evergreen forests, mountains; [...]

Species-rich mixed evergreen and deciduous woodlands, often on steep [...] [...]

The reform of the United Nations and its Security Council; the promotion of sustainable development and green economy and the importance of dialogue and debate in tackling issues of global concern were also reoccurring themes.

[...] the aforesaid connected transactions were entered into (a) in the ordinary and usual course of business of the Group; (b) either on normal commercial terms or on terms no less favourable to the Group than terms available [...] [...]

Some of the elements of a vision for a lowcarbon transport system could include: (a) dense, but green, and mixed-use [...] [...]

The Commission expressed appreciation for the work of the ESCAP Pacific Office and the support it had provided for members in the subregion, particularly its technical assistance and capacity-building activities in the areas of sustainable development, green growth, and the integration of social, environmental and economic outcomes.

[...] [...] documenting and sharing good practices and country experiences in eco-city development, promotion of public transportation, green buildings, 3R (reduce, reuse, recycle) strategies, sustainable [...] [...]

[...] [...] 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, [...] [...]

That, as the adjustments of local oil product prices are always quick in going up but slow in coming down and the pace of price adjustments by various oil companies tends to be synchronized, while oil product pump prices often fail to truly reflect import costs, this Council urges the Government to actively consider introducing a fair competition law and other effective measures for the oil industries, including requesting the Competition Policy Advisory Group to take heed of any unfair mode of competition that may emerge in the local oil market, and entrusting the Group to monitor and study the situation, with a view to increasing competition in the oil industries and enhancing the transparency of product prices, thereby avoiding oligopoly, promoting fair competition and safeguarding commercial clients and the public against high oil prices.

In this context, the Special Rapporteur makes a number of recommendations to the Government, including the need to address the persistence of racial discrimination and xenophobia and the lack of legislation that manifestly prohibits these conducts, the exploitation of migrants in the labour sector, the lack of interventions by the judiciary and police to protect migrants’ rights, the strict policy of detention and deportation of irregular migrants, the difficulties for migrant children to access education either in Japanese or foreign schools, and the overall lack of a comprehensive immigration policy that respects the human rights of migrants and ensures their integration into the Japanese society.

If the witness claims privilege from disclosure of evidence on grounds of public interest immunity, the procedure as set out in the Council's resolution concerning the usage and practice in regard to the determination of claims of public interest privilege in Appendix I will be followed.