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Consideration may be given in this particular regard to requiring that the Contracts Committee reach a unanimous decision or, failing such unanimity, that, on the basis of minutes of the Committee setting out the divergent opinions, the matter be referred to the Director-General to decide in fine and in person on any departure from the application of the rules essential to the smooth running of the Organization, on condition that the Manual so provides.

The Co-Chair suggested that given the divergent points of view on the issue the proponents of the draft decision should further discuss the issue with the representatives of interested parties and report on the results of their discussions.

The views and opinions expressed do not necessarily represent [...]

First, internal oversight within the Organization should be strengthened in order to ensure compliance with all internal regulations adopted by the Organization.

[...] [...] impeded the completion of an action plan to halt [...]

[...] [...] that it did not reflect the opinion of the international [...]

[...] are unable to reach an agreement or if a Committee [...] [...]

[...] [...] of differences of opinion between the Court [...]

[...] organizations have differing views on whether assets purchased [...] [...]

The Special Rapporteur agreed with the view of a member State that it was not clear why [...] [...]

This motion was seconded by another expert and was adopted by the Group and the opinion of the Legal Adviser was no longer considered necessary.

[...] [...] ending violence against women to increasing women’s contributions to peace and security; (b) devising and coordinating multi-stakeholder, holistic country programmes that involve inter-agency participation and national partners in line with national and regional policies and priorities and that are consistent with UN-Women’s Strategic Plan; (c) ongoing, on-demand technical [...] [...]

[...] firstly, that indicators that were non-consensual should not be used to place countries on the list [...] [...]

[...] [...] contractors, or one or more supplier(s) or contractor(s) and the procuring entity, work in tandem to manipulate the market in a way detrimental to obtaining an optimal outcome in the given procurement; (b) the manipulation might affect the price, keeping it artificially high, or other elements of a submission (such as the quality offered); alternatively, it could involve an agreement to share the market by artificially inflating prices or artificially distorting other elements of a submission, or an agreement not to present submissions or otherwise to distort fair competition; (c) collusion would probably violate the law of the State; (d) collusion involved the intention of the parties concerned to collude; and (e) the complicity of representatives of the procuring entity in collusion was not uncommon.

A number of specific comments were made as follows: the concept of food safety is universal, thus there should be no exception, as presently in Article 4.2, allowing exporting countries to export food, which does not comply with [...] [...]

[...] [...] the executive head, directly to the legislative body, together with any comments of the executive head thereon.

[...] on its sixty-first session it was pointed out that “certain issues concerning international responsibility between States and international organizations have not been expressly covered either in the articles on the responsibility of States for internationally wrongful acts or in the draft articles on the responsibility of international organizations”; some examples of these issues were given; and the Commission asked for comments and observations from Governments and international organizations about the context in which these questions should be considered (A/64/10, paras. 27 and 28).

[...] [...] policy-level advocacy to managing small-scale projects in a single community, as well as UNESCO’s [...]

A number of specific comments were made as follows: the reference of the Code on the Marketing of Breast Milk Substitutes is important; the Code should be generic and focus on the protection of consumers in countries which do not have adequate control [...] [...]

[...] [...] authoritative interpretation of legal documents, it is obvious that the opinion of the authors of a document cannot be endowed with a decisive value when that opinion has been formulated after the drafting of that document and conflicts with the opinion which they [...]

The Special Rapporteur observed that there had been mixed support for his proposal to revert to an express reference to the intention of the parties to the treaties in the application of articles 31 and 32 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties.

[...] [...] appear to agree and areas where there is no apparent convergence of views and more dialogue [...]

[...] examination some members took the view that the comments by the Director-General as to the inadmissibility [...] [...]

In order to arrive at the convergence of positions that is necessary for the Working Group to reach consensus recommendations on the elements for a draft declaration for the fourth disarmament decade, the NAM urges all delegations to display the necessary political will and flexibility during the 2011 session of the Disarmament Commission.

There are different opinions: one Member proposes that the Executive Board should take care of those expenses; another Member thinks that the practice of financing those expenses may be [...]

The view was expressed that the diversity of views of States on the matter of the definition [...] [...]