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Gambia also reported that it continues in collaborate to deliver mine risk education in communities in the affected areas and has a well trained and fully equipped humanitarian demining team which is always ready to respond to any emergencies.

(14) To carry on the business of hotel, restaurant, cafe, tavern, beer-house, refreshment-room, and lodginghouse keepers, licensed victuallers, wine, beer, and spirit merchants, brewers, maltsters, distillers, importers and manufacturers of aerated, mineral, distilled and artificial waters and other drinks, purveyors, caterers for public amusements generally.

Jesus instituted the Lord’s Supper at the last Passover that He ate on earth which should also be the last Passover that anyone ever needed to eat, because He is the Passover Lamb who has come to lead all mankind out of their “exodus” from sin.

(g) whether it knows the venue of the Association's annual dinner to be held in November this year, the estimated expenses, the number of tables reserved, the necessity of choosing this venue, and whether it is feasible to choose some other venues that will incur lower expenses (for example, the Association's Headquarters), so that the savings from dinner expenses may be used on the development of girl guides units?

In the Medical Services Section, the establishment of 15 additional national posts (6 National Officers and 9 national General Service staff) is proposed, as the Section has over the past years expanded the services it provides, which include round-the-clock operation of the UNOCI headquarters clinic, which is now functioning at level I-plus rather than the previous level I; patients are followed up at their homes after discharge from level III hospitals; patients are regularly visited in the 11 level III hospitals in Abidjan and in Sector West and Sector East; doctors in the regional headquarters perform outreach activity by visiting remote offices twice a week; support is provided to the Government during important functions and to the United Nations country team as part of the United Nations integrated framework; and medical support is proposed to be provided eight hours a day at the logistics base in Koumassi as opposed to the current two hours a day.

Concrete follow-up initiatives have included the organization of specific training sessions with a view to stimulating decision- and policy-makers to enact the right of universal online access to public and government-held records, to identify and promote repositories of information and knowledge in the public domain and to make them accessible to all, as well as to undertake the preservation and digitization of public domain information held by governments.

given that the Association is able to solicit sponsorships to host banquets with tens of tables either in hotels or in HKCEC for its AGMs, whether the Government should immediately reduce the recurrent subvention to the Association by the same amount of the expenditure on the AGMs so as to use public funds effectively and establish an image of thrift for charities?

I raised a question on the aforesaid issues on 27 June this year, but some parents, unit guiders and staff members of the Association have relayed to me that the reply of the Secretary for Home Affairs ("SHA") to my question paid no regard to the situation that while all girl guides in Hong Kong are endeavouring to sell raffle tickets on the streets, the Association "fattens the top and thins the bottom" and cuts the raffle refund, resulting in insufficient funding for its units, and the Association has also hosted banquets with tens of tables either in hotels or in the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre ("HKCEC") for its annual general meetings ("AGMs").

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.

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 the planning, monitoring and evaluation of the education system through EMIS; enhancing the education sector responses to HIV and AIDS; improving the quality of education for peace programme; and strengthening literacy development through advocacy and technical support to strategic planning.

Local governments have turned in-house cafeterias into fine restaurants and hosted lavish private dinners in their homes in order to avoid being seen indulging in public, according to South China Morning Post.