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It is by setting aside our cultural and individual differences that we will gradually come to understand that what unites us as human beings is far more important than what divides us.

[...] [...] the right to be different that we will diffuse tensions [...]

Just now, Mr Abraham SHEK pointed out angrily that there was simply no need for him to make declarations because the matters discussed at the meetings were mainly about the Kam Sheung Road option.

The Chair stated that any Panel request must be shared with members of working groups and any affected participant, and only in case there are no objections can the information be provided to the Panel, according to the administrative decision on sharing information with the United Nations approved by the Kimberley Process at its plenary meeting in November 2009 (see annex III).

[...] [...] specificity, hence strength, as [...] [...]

[...] [...] industries, and only in this way can [...]

In the supplementary information provided to the Advisory Committee, the Secretary-General states that one of the lessons learned with regard to compliance missions was that, irrespective of the professional competence of the individual compliance officers, when dealing with Chief Security Officers at the P-5 or senior P-4 levels or debriefing designated officials at the level of D-2 or above, a P-3 compliance officer has neither the seniority nor the field experience to be credible.

Zambia: After discussing whether to wait for the national planning document to be ready in order to ensure the UNDAF’s alignment to the Sixth National Development Plan (SNDP), the UNCT decided to go ahead with the preparation of the new UNDAF, considering that despite efforts to align United Nations documents to national plans, the cycles are hardly the same and that the situation in Zambia is unlikely to change in the short term.

As the Guangzhou–Shenzhen–Hong Kong Express Rail Link (XRL) involves $66.9 billion of public funds and the findings of the Public Opinion Programme of the University of Hong Kong published recently show that 59% of the respondents said they knew 'very little' or 'quite little' about the entire XRL project, indicating that most people do not understand the substance and social impact of the XRL, I now move under paragraph 37A of the FC Procedure to demand that the Government shelve the funding proposals of the XRL and assess the public awareness of the XRL with an opinion poll conducted by an independent organization, and re-submit the funding proposals after having ascertained that the majority of the people of Hong Kong clearly understand the substance of the XRL and its impact on the society.

The Commission underlined that development must be people-centred, including through good governance and public policies that promote health, education, skills development, decent job creation, gender equality and empowerment, as well as through measures to enhance social protection and social justice, while simultaneously addressing the challenges of increasing social disparity and income inequality.

[...] [...] judges), the differences in the conditions [...] [...]

[...] [...] implementation, the talent management system [...] [...]

These included the social disparities between non-Maori and Maori; the status of the Treaty of Waitangi in domestic legislation; family violence; equality of opportunity; overrepresentation of Maori in the criminal justice system; and ratification of human rights treaties to which New Zealand was not party.