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Some trade representatives expressed the difficulties to comply with the new labelling requirements resulted from ambiguities in the wordings of allergenic substances and food additives used.

He put the Consultation also in the context of the ongoing reform process of the Organization, in particular with regard to programming, and highlighted the recent revisions of the programme management cycle designed to ensure a more strategic and policy-focused approach and to facilitate a more rational allocation of programme resources between Headquarters and the field as well as between the various regions and clusters.

This should include support for efforts to promote literacy, including functional literacy, formal and non-formal education, beginning with early childhood and continuing on a lifelong basis, education in the mother tongue in the early stages of learning, values education including social and moral awareness, the development of a culture of dialogue, a commitment to a culture of peace, education for sustainable development, teacher training, technical and vocational education and training (geared towards enhancing employability and drawing on the expertise of UNEVOC) as well as science and technology education.

The Executive Secretary informed the Commission about the steps the secretariat had initiated to strengthen the resultsoriented focus of its technical cooperation work, which included: (a) larger, longerterm and better aligned capacity development projects, with emphasis on improved performance through strengthened results-based management; (b) a resource mobilization strategy that provides a framework for a more proactive approach to partnerships and donor relations, and the establishment of a Partnerships and Resource Mobilization Section; (c) continued efforts to strengthen relations with partners through meetings with a number of member States and donor agencies; and (d) enhanced engagement with some private sector counterparts as partners in promoting and delivering capacity development.

(d) Another ex-M23 officer who surrendered from Ntaganda’s position at Runyoni told the Group that he personally witnessed how one RDF battalion came to reinforce the mutineers after a FARDC helicopter bombarded their positions.

The Order will also require traders to display prominently a notice measuring 210 mm x 297 mm at the point of supply to inform customers of the definition “diamond” and the supplier’s duty to produce an invoice or receipt when a transaction is concluded, to retain a copy of the invoice or receipt, as well as the details to be included in the invoice or receipt.

A set of flagship publications have been planned with regional lens, which include (i) The Arab Region 2025, which will forecast and analyse current and future trends for the region in economic, social, political and cultural areas; (ii) Transitions to Democracy, which looks into the nature of political changes in Arab countries and analyses the lessons learned from political transitions in other areas of the world to draw conclusions and best practices on the policy options available to ensure effective and sustainable transitions to democracy; (iii) Arab Regional Integration, which analyses the potential areas and characteristics of integration be they social, economic, cultural or political and assessing their prospective impact on the long-term development of the region; and (iv) a joint publication with other Regional Commissions on Beyond the MDGs: A Future United Nations Development Agenda.

IHNFA runs three major programmes: the Family Welfare and Community Development Programme, with a predominantly preventive focus and with its main initiatives in three key areas, namely child welfare, strengthening the family and publicizing and promoting children’s rights; the Social Intervention and Protection Programme, which aims to protect children at social risk by avoiding placement in care and to that end involving the family and society in the process of intervention and restitution of rights.

Although the current arrangement is in line with the Agency Organizational Directive, the Board is of the view that an independent and non-executive chair would enhance the perceived and actual independence of the Advisory Committee on Internal Oversight.

The retailers are also required to display prominently at the point of supply prescribed notices informing customers respectively of the definitions of natural fei cui, diamond, gold, gold alloy, platinum or platinum alloy and the supplier's obligation to issue a detailed invoice or receipt.

The Secretary-General believes that the alternatives to the current approach, namely, partially or fully funding the after-service health insurance liabilities as they accrue, would (a ) address both immediate and future costs; (b ) enhance the alignment of costs so that the costs of the benefits are incurred under the budgets receiving the services from the employees; (c ) reduce the long-term contribution requirements by Member States as investment earnings begin to supplement budgets; and (d ) contain the growth of unfunded after-service health insurance obligations from becoming a greater liability on the United Nations (ibid., para. 45).

Such voluntary mechanisms should be effective and should aim to mobilize resources that are stable and predictable, which should supplement and not be a substitute for traditional sources of finance and be disbursed in accordance with the priorities of least developed countries and not unduly burden them.

Although it is possible that the Eritrean authorities have continued to provide financial and other forms of assistance to armed opposition groups without their activities being detected, it is the Monitoring Group’s assessment that any such assistance is negligible, and that Eritrea is currently a marginal actor in Somalia, with little, if any, influence, either positive or negative, on the course of events.

The system is designed to provide reasonable, but not absolute, assurance against material misstatement or loss, manage rather than eliminate risks of failure in operational systems, and to ensure achievement of the Group’s objectives.

The drain valve reduces the risk of serious injury, including splashing in the eyes or on the skin.

(i) In Bye-law 44(i), by deleting “fee of HK$2 (or such higher amount as shall for the time being be approved by the Designated Stock Exchange on which the shares of the Company are listed) or such lesser sum as the Directors may from time to time require” and substituting the words “such fee, if any, not exceeding the fee as for the time being approved by the Designated Stock Exchange”.

(b) The planned activity “Workshop on secondary crops and poverty alleviation” should be designed in such a way as to establish a network and foster cooperation among the research centres dealing with secondary crops and poverty alleviation in the region.

Efforts shall be made to organize and promote comprehensive, resultoriented research on the offences committed by women, the reasons that trigger women’s confrontation with the criminal justice system, the impact of secondary criminalization and imprisonment on women, the characteristics of women offenders, as well as programmes designed to reduce reoffending by women, as a basis for effective planning, programme development and policy formulation to respond to the social reintegration needs of women offenders.

The State party therefore concludes that her testimony, which remains vague and unclear, is implausible and that her claim of current political activity is not credible.

The SPT recommends that prison authorities develop their policy on managing inter-prisoner violence, including significantly increasing staff numbers and conducting staff training, which should focus on building and maintaining positive relations among prisoners, as well as between staff and prisoners: the dynamic security approach to prison work.

(d) Therefore, measurement of achievement should not be limited to each tranche, but should look at the overall cumulative effect, to see i) how effective the cumulative achievements of the sectoral/national plans have addressed the overall goals of the MYA, ii) what are the lessons/experience gained that may be applied to avoid 11 previous mistakes, and to improve, simplify, or add value to actions taken in future implementation actions/steps of the same sector plan, iii) what those experiences can contribute to phase-out plans in other sectors in the same country, same region and/or globally, iv) what experiences can also be adopted by other IAs to improve those implementation process, taking into account the fact that each IA operates with different organizational procedures.

The Committee also notes the State party’s assertion that although political opponents were violently suppressed during this period, the author cannot be considered to be a political activist in the eyes of the Armenian authorities, simply because he refused to take money to vote for Sarkisian; and that the author has therefore not substantiated that he would be of special interest to the authorities for this reason.

For government leaders and some scholars, Hong Kong people are economic animals; they are apathetic towards politics; they think and act based upon calculation of concrete material interests rather than abstract principles; they are busy with their work; and they solve their own problems with individual rather than collective actions.

Five finfish hybrids have been recorded with national production statistics and FAO estimates, indicating world production levels in 2010 of 333 300 tonnes of blue and Nile tilapia hybrid (Oreochrom aureus x O. niloticus, in China and in Panama), 116 900 tonnes of Clarias catfish hybrid (Clarias gariepinus x C. macrocephalus, in Thailand), 21 600 tonnes of “tambacu” hybrid (Piaractus mesopotamicus x Colossoma macropomum, in Brazil), 4 900 tonnes of “tambatinga” hybrid (Colossoma macropomum x Piaractus brachypomus, in Brazil) and 4 200 tonnes of striped bass hybrid (Morone chrysops x M. saxatilis, in the United States of America, Italy and Israel).

At the practical level, however, we consider that whether or not it may be said that bankers owe any contractual, fiduciary or general duty of care to their clients in this particular matter, it would be prudent banking practice for bankers to advise their corporate account holders that, as the law stands at the moment, it will only be the use of words indicating that the signatory signs for or on behalf of a principal or in a representative character which will be certain to avoid the personal liability to the payee of the authorized signatory on a dishonoured company cheque.

If the proposals presented by the United Nations through its Secretary-General and his representatives are not given due consideration, the Organization and its main bodies, the Security Council in particular, will lose all credibility in the eyes of unarmed civilians, who call on us to assume our responsibility for protecting them in armed conflict.

26 April 2004; Asia Report N°52, Myanmar Backgrounder: Ethnic Minority Politics, 7 May 2003; Asia Briefing N°21, Myanmar: The Future of the Armed Forces, 27 September 2002; Asia Briefing N°15, Myanmar: The HIV/AIDS Crisis, 2 April 2002; Asia Report N°32, Myanmar: The Politics of Humanitarian Aid, 2 April 2002; Asia Report N°28, Myanmar: The Military Regime’s View of the World, 7 December 2001; Asia Report N°27, Myanmar: The Role of Civil Society, 6 December 2001; Asia Report N°11, Burma/Myanmar: How Strong is the Military Regime?

Discussions on fishing subsidies have been oriented towards improved environmental stewardship and sustainable development and have had two key components: a market access element to reduce border measures, mainly tariff barriers, and a fisheries sectorspecific negotiation to prohibit and otherwise discipline subsidies that distort trade and promote overfishing and overcapacity.

More characteristic still is the view of Rab's Palestinian contemporary R. Johanan: All the bliss for the future promised by the Prophets refers only to the Messianic time, whereas in regard to that which is in store for the righteous in the world to come it is said: "No eye hath seen it beside thee, O God" (Isa. lxiv. 3 [AV 4]; Ber. 34b; comp.