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Although Members with similar background belong to the minority in this Council, we, like the other Members, base our arguments on facts and are not arguing for argument's sake.

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But then, if viewed from another angle, since different education institutions have their own respective strengths, even if the programmes they offer should be of similar contents and standards, the quality of their students would still differ enormously and might seem rather confusing to others.

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.

President, if this is not picking a quarrel, what is it then?

Too often during the past Session this Chamber was divided by some who seem only to stir doubt about what is wrong with Hong Kong, rather than broaden their scope to give a more objective critique of fine-tuning flaws in a system that has worked right for most our modern history.

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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.

This fragrance is inspired by a woman who is radiant, frivolous and sensual, she plays with her charm and her joyful, lively personality to suggest and seduce.

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.

Members of southern China’s most luxurious performance lounge will be treated to a series of exhilarating nightly performances when Saulo Sarmiento takes the showroom stage at CHINA ROUGE.

Let us hope that these will only stir but not shake the conscience of Hong Kong people as to what our future is.

We know and we should tell all people that what we are going after is to improve the governance in Hong Kong and to protect the interest of every citizen.

I do not want to provoke any arguments today, despite the remarks which I made in a rather agitated way on the day I won the elections, that I hoped Mr LAU Kong-wah could honour his pledge. I hoped that he would be true to his word on the election day and in the Council in future, that is, to take concrete actions on his comment that Mr Andrew LO should resign.