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Following the letter and spirit of the Development Strategy of Kazakhstan to 2010, we have fulfilled all the goals outlined for the first decade of the twenty-first century.

[...] [...] benefit of school attendance for young girls, in the light [...] [...]

As at 1 January 2011, only the closed joint stock company “Erbyek” is engaged in reindeer herding and maintains 22 reindeers.

The UNESCO Beijing Office carried out several activities under this main line of action including a conference on Ecotourism Management of China’s Nature Reserves organized by the Chinese National Committee for MAB in October 2002 at the Juizhaigou and Huanglong Biosphere Reserve, Sichuan Province, China; a series of seminars in Xilingol Biosphere Reserve, targeted at the local community including the biosphere reserve manager and in Beijing for donor agencies and governmental and academic institutions; a feasibility survey on the establishment of nature reserves promoting the rehabilitation and the sustainable management of degraded grassland landscapes in Xilingol region (July-December 2002), conducted by the Chinese National Committee for MAB; the second Steering Committee and Project Coordinators’ Meeting of the Ecological Research for Sustaining the Environment in China (ERSEC) project (FIT Germany).

The objectives of Tonga Offshore Mining’s plan of work are to: (a) determine the most efficient and environmentally acceptable method to process and recover nickel, cobalt, copper and manganese from the polymetallic nodules, and define in what form these metals would report in a final product for sale, as well as the related capital and operating costs; (b) decide upon the optimum method to recover the material to surface with the minimum of environmental disturbance, as well as the related capital and operating costs; and (c) define what grade of nickel, cobalt, copper and manganese is required in the polymetallic nodules for economic extraction, and determine through exploration what quantity and density of such material can be identified and delineated in the contract area.

[...] at the 2013 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS), researchers reviewed existing literature on smoking and the healing of fractures [...] [...]

[...] [...] established during the CFC phase-out plan and the momentum of the training programme for technicians; [...] [...]

As crisis in the Syrian Arab Republic enters its third year, UNICEF correspodent Priyanka Pruthi reports on the growing tragedy that has put a country at the brink of losing a generation to war.

The Secretariat had assessed the operation of the Executive Committee in the first two meetings in 2004 following the decision by the Executive Committee at its last meeting in 2003 to eliminate the sub-committees and discuss all matters in plenary.

We are concerned that the adoption of amendments could compromise the positive momentum that the Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects has recently experienced, as demonstrated most recently by the successful outcome of the Fourth Biennial Meeting of States, held in June 2010.

Lastly, as the revitalization of field offices cannot really be achieved without the leadership of senior officials, it is worth noting that 36 new directors and heads of offices have been appointed since 2000, which is a 68% renewal of the heads of the 53 offices that make up the UNESCO field network.

Ordinary resolutions will also be proposed at the Annual General Meeting in respect of the granting of the Issue Mandate to the Directors, in the terms set out in the notice of the Annual General Meeting, to allot, issue and deal with Shares not exceeding 20% of the aggregate nominal amount of the share capital of the Company in issue as at the date of passing the relevant resolution, and adding to the Issue Mandate so granted to the Directors any Shares representing the aggregate nominal amount of the Shares repurchased by the Company after the granting of the Repurchase Mandate, at any time during the period ended on the earliest of (a) the conclusion of the next annual general meeting of the Company; (b) the expiration of the period within which the next annual general meeting of the Company is required by the Articles or any applicable laws to be held; and (c) the date upon which such authority is revoked or varied by an ordinary resolution at a general meeting of Shareholders.

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[...] [...] children with disabilities, victims of trafficking, child heads of households and children living in care institutions, all of whom are at a heightened risk of exploitation and abuse.

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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.

Swagelok has conducted tests that demonstrated the capability of Swagelok tube fittings to withstand thermal shock and high temperature.

The ASPACO project, in Asia and the Pacific, which is promoting conservation and development and is financed by Japan, has entered in the third year of its implementation.

Also at its sixty-sixth session, the General Assembly held its first discussion on sustainable tourism and sustainable development in Central America and recognized the need to promote the development of sustainable tourism, in particular through the consumption of sustainable tourism products and services, and to strengthen the development of ecotourism, taking into account the declaration of 2012 as the Year of Sustainable Tourism in Central America, while maintaining the culture and environmental integrity of indigenous and local communities and enhancing the protection of ecologically sensitive areas and the natural heritage, and to promote the development of sustainable tourism and capacity-building, taking into account the need to address, inter alia, the challenges of climate change and the need to halt the loss of biodiversity (resolution 66/196).

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The rite of initiation into Brahminism was conferred on male children only, when they began their studies under a Brahmin teacher, which took place generally in the eighth year of the Brahmin, and in the eleventh and twelfth years for the Kshatriya and the Vaisya respectively.

The importance of the Account in creating this link was underscored in an evaluative review of the Account during its tenth year of operation (see report of the Secretary-General on the Development Account (A/62/466)).

It consists of: (a) historic archives containing documents and audiovisual material relating to the negotiation and adoption of legal instruments under the auspices of the United Nations and related organizations since 1945; (b) a lecture series featuring a permanent collection of lectures on international law, including the law of the sea, given by leading international law scholars and practitioners; and (c) a research library providing an online international law library with links to treaties, jurisprudence, publications, documents, scholarly writings and research guides.

The pages are divided into two columns; and the entire mishnaic text precedes the chapter; the several sections, even those beginning with a new paragraph of the Mishnah, have an introduction only in the case of the first word of the mishnaic passage in question, with the word as superscription.

It recommended that Saudi Arabia (a) enact and implement a law of association to guarantee the right to form civil-society organizations and to protect those organizations from government interference; (b) abolish the guardianship system, which severely limits the rights of women to act as autonomous and equal members of Saudi society; (c) amend the Code of Criminal Practice to stipulate that only individuals aged over 18 will be tried as adults.