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The Singapore Botanic Gardens is home to some 3,000 species of tropical plant life.

In spite of the location [...]

Virtual libraries can house content themselves, or they can act [...] [...]

Action focused not only on traditional and digital media, but also on the consolidation or restructuring of libraries and archives as well as online-based educational services in this environment.

[...] [...] educational and scientific centre with libraries, herbaria, laboratories and [...] [...]

[...] [...] Foundation Bibliotheca Afghanica in Switzerland and the Foundation for Cultural [...] [...]

[...] visas in person at embassies or consulates in [...] [...]

On instructions from my Government, I have the honour to transmit a copy of the note dated 23 July 2010 from the Government of Argentina, which was delivered to the Embassy of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in Buenos Aires and which rejects the entire contents of the letter distributed as General Assembly document A/64/672 (see annex).

[...] [...] archives and libraries as a component [...] [...]

(i) The Company may give financial assistance on such terms as the Board thinks fit to directors and bona fide employees of the Company, any of its subsidiaries, any holding company of the Company or any subsidiary of any such holding company in order that they may purchase or subscribe or otherwise acquire shares (fully or partly paid) in the Company or any holding company of the Company and such terms may include a reference that, when a director ceases to be a director of, or an employee ceases to be employed by, the Company or such other company, shares purchased or subscribed or otherwise acquired with such financial assistance [...] [...]

(E) Where arrangements are under consideration concerning the appointment (including the arrangement or variation of the terms thereof, or the termination thereof) of two or more Directors to offices or places of profit with the Company or any other company in which the Company is interested, a separate resolution may be put in relation to each Director and in such case each of the Directors concerned shall be entitled to vote (and be counted in the quorum) in respect of each resolution except that concerning his own appointment (or the arrangement or variation of the terms thereof, or the termination thereof) and except (in the case of an office or place of profit with any such other company as aforesaid) where the other company is a company in which the Director together with any of his associates owns five (5) per cent or more of the issued shares of any class of the equity share capital of such company or of the voting rights of any class of shares of such company.

That this Council urges the Government to comprehensively review the West Kowloon Cultural District development project, consider the ‘software’ contents before planning the cultural facilities, extend the deadline for submission of development proposals, openly and thoroughly consult the cultural sector, professional bodies, the real estate sector, the Legislative Council, the public and relevant [...] [...]

2.8 Based on a recommendation made by the Office of Internal Oversight Services in its evaluation of the integrated global management initiative of the Department (A/64/166), the Secretary-General proposes that the budget of the United Nations Library in Geneva be moved from subprogramme 5, Library services, under Conference management, Geneva, of section 2 to subprogramme 7, Library services, under Administration, Geneva, of section 29E, and that the budget of the United Nations Library — Vienna moved from subprogramme 5, Library services, under Conference management, Vienna, of section 2 to subprogramme 4, Support services, under Administration, Vienna, of section 29F, so that the budget structures of the library services in Geneva and Vienna are aligned with the established organizational reporting structures at the two Offices.

Also at that session, the General Assembly requested the Secretary-General to provide to the programme budget for the following and future bienniums the resources necessary to ensure the continued effectiveness and further development of the Programme of Assistance, in particular the organization of regional courses in international law on a regular basis and the viability of the United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law; to periodically invite Member States, universities, philanthropic foundations and other interested national and international institutions and organizations, as well as individuals, to make voluntary contributions towards the financing of the Programme of Assistance or otherwise to assist in its implementation and possible expansion; and, following consultations with the Advisory Committee on the Programme of Assistance, to submit recommendations regarding the execution of the Programme in subsequent years (resolution 66/97).

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 [...] [...]

Save as disclosed above, as at the Latest Practical Date, the Directors are not aware of any other person who had an interest or short position in the Shares or underlying Shares of the Company which would fall to be disclosed to the Company under the provisions of Divisions 2 and 3 of Part XV of the SFO, or who was, directly or indirectly, interested in 10% or more of the nominal value of any class of share capital, or options in respect of such capital, carrying rights to vote in all circumstances at general meetings of any other member of the Group.