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Chinese immigrants started coming to the State of Victoria during the gold boom of the 1850s, and Melbourne’s Chinatown precinct is now the oldest continuous Chinese settlement in the western world.

John Parsons, Director of IOS, left UNESCO in December 2007 to join the Global Fund to fight HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria as Inspector General.

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However, she noted that the HKTB had already started marketing campaign in these markets and Chairman of the HKTB had personally taken part in the activities in India.

The Tribunal, through the Office of the President, the Chambers, the Office of the Prosecutor and the Registry, has continued its efforts to meet the goals of its completion strategy, as endorsed by the Security Council in its resolution 1503 (2003), with intense trial, referral and appeals activity and the drafting of judgements.

Each institute and centre will be called upon to fully contribute to the implementation of the Programme at different levels, according to its mandate.

The Tribunal, through the Office of the President, the Chambers, the Office of the Prosecutor and the Registry, continued its efforts to meet the goals of its completion strategy, as endorsed by the Security Council in resolution 1503 (2003).

It is extremely important that you factor the high cost of housing into your budget before you come to Australia, and have access to funds that will cover possible rent increases.

I would therefore like to think of today’s debate, and of that to be held by the Security Council in two days’ time, as presenting opportunities to consider how our individual countries can empower the Commission to exercise its role as a unique political platform for the following five broad functions: first, supporting national stakeholders in projecting their vision for peace and development; secondly, ensuring focused commitments by all actors in support of national ownership and capacity development for national peacebuilding priorities; thirdly, mobilizing resources to fund critical capacities and priorities; fourthly, aligning all actors around common and nationally identified peacebuilding objectives; and, fifthly, promoting mutual accountability between national stakeholders and their regional and international partners.

While pointing out that the process for collecting and sorting the transaction data for updating the price table for all constituent stocks was complex, involving huge amount of data and screening of dubious data, he assured members that HSIL would continue to do its best to ensure reliability of its services.

It is a good idea to arrange some form of temporary accommodation before you come to Australia.

There is a need for greater accountability by all partners, both globally and nationally, with least developed countries taking full ownership by leading with examples of good governance as well as improved South-South cooperation.

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.

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.

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.

Involving training initiatives both in formal and informal artistic education, and promotion of the arts, its action will be particularly oriented towards young people, especially from underprivileged backgrounds, and will also concentrate on the improvement of the status of the artist in contemporary societies.

The Group is committed to ensuring the accuracy of its assertions, and to adhering to the evidentiary standards recommended by the Informal Working Group of the Security Council on General Issues of Sanctions in its report of 2006 (S/2006/997) by relying on verified, authentic documents and, wherever possible, first-hand, on-site observations by the experts themselves, including photographs.

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Through a two-State solution, the Palestinian people will exercise their right to establish an independent State; Israel will enjoy a greatly enhanced security environment; and both parties will be able to launch full-fledged efforts at cooperation for their mutual prosperity.

From 2006 onwards, Dr. Riedel worked in the USA as a Chief Engineer at Voith Hydro York, where he was responsible for the engineering of generators, turbines, automation and plant projects for the new system and modernisation business.