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Besides the exciting football action, the Grand Finals also featured a fun-filled entertainment line-up, which included freestyle football displays by one of the world's greatest football freestylers, 'Nam the Man', performances by popular Vietnamese local singer, Nhu Y, high energy dance and cheerleading segments, and appearances by the beautiful Tiger Cage Girls.

Any well-founded denunciation of arbitrary or illegal acts occurring in any public entity may be investigated or penalized at the administrative level.

Overall, strong emphasis was placed on the need for effective intersectoral action and on the pursuit of cross-cutting issues, such as gender issues and human rights.

The Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Council, at its 19th session in October 2006, approved 25 new site nominations for biosphere reserve designation, including the first intercontinental one, the Intercontinental Biosphere Reserve of the Mediterranean, spanning Morocco and Spain.

Pending a full evaluation of the experience gained with and the results attained by the various CCT projects carried out during the 31 C/5 and 32 C/5, the Director-General recommends to continue during the 33 C/5 only a limited number of ongoing CCT projects which have demonstrably shown effectiveness and results in particular at the field level as well as the use of innovative modalities and approaches, but not to add new CCT projects.

[...] has mined areas that straddle its border [...] [...]

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 [...] [...]

As regards activities under the “ethics of science and technology, in particular bioethics”, the suggestion was made to place more emphasis on information and sensitization of the public-at-large and decision-makers, on the development of further normative instruments, on the promotion of ethics education, on the ethics of the use of science and technology, capacity-building and on multidisciplinary action.

[...] [...] technology, the promotion of local and indigenous knowledge systems [...] [...]

These 12 posts comprise one P-2 post of Associate Economic Affairs Officer under executive direction and management; one P-2 post under subprogramme 1, Linkages with the global economy, regional integration and cooperation; one P-2 post under subprogramme 2, Production and innovation; one P-2 post under subprogramme 3, Macroeconomic policies and growth; one P-2 post under subprogramme 5, Social development and equality; one P-2 post under subprogramme 12, Subregional activities in Mexico and Central America; one Local level post under subprogramme 13, Subregional activities in the Caribbean; and one P-4 temporary post, one P-2 post and three Local level posts under programme support.