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[...] [...] within and betweenPacific Island countries, [...][...]

Taking into account current global challenges, MsBokova emphasized that despite changing realities, the need for UNESCO still remains – to mobilize international solidarity, to secure inclusive quality lifelong learning for all, to promote open access and dialogue within sciences to ensure that sciences serve the development of humanity, to establish culture at the heart of development, and to promote freedom of expression to ensure diversity.

In that connection, the Legal Counsel has informed me that, after the established deadline for nominating candidates, the following additional submissions were received from several national groups, all of which relate to the candidates already nominated by other national groups appearing in documents A/66/182, A/66/183 and A/66/184: Tsvetana Kamenova (Bulgaria) has been nominated also by the national group of Malta; Abdul G. Koroma (Sierra Leone) has been nominated also by the national group of Malta; Mr. Hisashi Owada (Japan) has been nominated also by the national groups of Colombia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, El Salvador, India, Liechtenstein, Malta and Romania; Julia Sebutinde (Uganda) has been nominated also by the national group Romania; Peter Tomka (Slovakia) has been nominated also by the national groups of Liechtenstein and Romania; and Xue Hanqin (China) has been nominated also by the national groups of India, Liechtenstein and Romania.

I have the honour to transmit herewith relevant documents along with letters written by 45 prominent Palestinians from Jerusalem and Israel, including Christian and Muslim figures, politicians, businesspeople and civil society activists, addressed to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navanethem Pillay, and the Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Irina Bokova, urging that they take action to stop the continued destruction of Ma’man Allah Cemetery in Jerusalem by the Israeli Government (see annex).

[...] [...] commitment by Pacific Islands Forum leaders and the Secretary-General to enhanced high-level dialogue between the membersof the PacificIslandsForum and the United Nations; invited the Secretary-General to consider ways to promote and expand cooperation and coordination with PacificIslandsForum members [...][...]

[...] constructed on the IndianOcean nearthe Rakhine State capital of Sittwe, and parallel road, high-speed rail, and oil and natural gas pipelines that will create an energy and trade corridor to China’s landlocked south west; the Kaladan multi-modal project that will create a transportation corridor between the Indian OceanandIndia’s [...][...]

[...] [...] the promotionofmarine scientificresearch; the development of codes of conduct for research activities; environmental impact assessments, including the development of guidance on assessments of impacts on marinegeneticresources within the general environmental impact assessment process; the establishment of mechanisms for cooperation and the sharing of information and knowledge resulting from research on marinegeneticresources, including by increasing the participation of researchers from developing countries in relevant research projects; the establishmentofmarine protected areas; discussions on practical options for benefit-sharing, including options for facilitating access to samples; and consideration of the intellectual property aspects of marine genetic resources [...][...]

[...] [...] undertaken by Pacific island developing countries to protect biodiversity and the maintenance of ecosystem services, such as the Phoenix Islands Protected Area in Kiribati, the largestmarine protected area in the PacificOcean, and [...][...]

He welcomed the delegates, noting in his address that major changes of leadership have occurred at several levels within UNESCO and congratulated Ms Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO, and Ms Gretchen Kalonji, Assistant Director-General for Natural Sciences, on their appointments and called for their support to the vision and expectations of the water community of UNESCO.