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What was required, speakers concurred, was more targeted initiatives by both least developed countries

According to paragraph 4.3 of the President’s statement 8/1, the following section contains a summary of the views expressed on the outcome by States under review, Member and Observer States of the

UNESCO’s tasks and activities within the joint programme are

The activities undertaken within this function will include: (a) producing country, regional and global-level technical and programme guidance covering the substantive areas in which UN-Women works, from ending violence against women to increasing women’s contributions to

The Commission commended the secretariat for the successful regional preparatory activities in the lead-up to the High-level Meeting, including its efforts to ensure an inclusive preparatory process that had

In accordance with established practice, the Secretariat posted the Programme of Work, the Modalities for conducting the meeting, including

Furthermore, the Executive Secretary highlighted the value of formalized frameworks for coordination, including the Asia-Pacific Regional Coordination Mechanism (RCM),

Based on their experience in the mining sector, small island developing States have identified the following areas for priority action: (a) improve national capacity for policy formulation, negotiations, evaluation and enforcement; (b) ensure that full cost-benefit analysis and environmental impact assessment of potential mining sites are undertaken; (c) establish fair and transparent compensation systems to mitigate natural resource loss, environmental damage, and socio-economic costs; (d) legislate, manage and enforce national mineral policy frameworks and environmental management plans; (e) develop institutional capacity on mining tenement issues, company selection, closure, and

The Chair of the meeting invited speakers to focus their contributions on the following specific issues regarding the criminalization of cultural property: (a) the availability of statistical data at the national level; (b) the existence of specific legislation on trafficking in cultural property and potential challenges in developing specific legislation; (c) the imposition of strong penalties for trafficking in cultural

They reiterated their call for the peaceful resolution of the Somali conflict as the only way to a durable peace and genuine reconciliation and called upon all parties that had not yet joined

The specific objectives of the Meeting were: (a) to examine the trends that are apparent in the worldwide development of GNSS and how they will affect the growing population of users of satellite-positioning technologies; (b) to review ongoing and planned initiatives as well as case studies that could contribute to the wider use of GNSS technology and its applications, including the possibility of one or more national, regional and international pilot projects in which interested institutions could incorporate the use of GNSS technology; (c) identify a functional partnership that could be established to promote innovative GNSS-enabled applications, as well as recommend how such a partnership could be established through voluntary actions that could include Governments, international organizations, research and

In his report (S/2009/149), the Secretary-General describes the security situation as stable and without major security incidents, and he

In paragraph 7 of its resolution 65/244, the General Assembly endorsed the conclusions and recommendations of the Committee, contained in chapter III, section B, of the report of the Committee on its fiftieth session (A/65/16), on the annual overview report on the New Partnership for Africa’s Development, including a request to the organizations of the United Nations system to coordinate closely with the African Union Commission and its NEPAD structures, including the Regional Coordination Mechanism, in order to enhance overall coordination,

Global crises as well as catastrophic upheavals caused by violence and oppression, including structural oppression that denied the poor their right

In follow-up to the recommendations of the Working Group, which were approved by the Security Council, and subject to and consistent with applicable international law and relevant Security Council resolutions, including resolutions 1612 (2005) and 1882 (2009), I am entrusted in my capacity as the Chairman of the Working Group, to commend the establishment of the country-level task force on monitoring and reporting at the highest level, and requesting you to strengthen monitoring and reporting of the situation of children in Somalia and, through the established country-level task force, to support the Transitional Federal Government in the preparation of a time-bound action plan to end the recruitment and use of

Australia’s Office of Best Practice Regulation requires a regulation impact statement on the merit and efficiency of regulatory actions in meeting policy objectives with minimal costs for business and the community, assists decision-makers’ understanding of the costs and

The Security Council reiterates that the

The Committee made a number of recommendations, such as: (a) that the development of standards, methodologies and guidelines for disaster statistics be given higher priority; (b) that Governments systematically collect data on small disasters; (c) that the secretariat continue promoting regional cooperative mechanisms and capacity development efforts for disaster risk reduction, including on information, communications and space technologies, to accelerate the implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action; (d) that institutional capacity be strengthened through regional cooperation and