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While Beijing’s interests also increasingly converge with the West’s on

These include: a deep-sea port being constructed on the Indian Ocean near the 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

In Europe, the European Seafloor Observatory Network (ESONET) is in development and has nodes planned for locations in the Arctic Ocean,

More recently the Monitoring Group has obtained credible information and evidence that some ARDUF forces have recently been hosted and trained

We reaffirm our conviction and the conviction of the States members of our groups that averting further escalation of tensions and destabilization of the situation, promoting a just, lasting, comprehensive and peaceful settlement to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the Arab-Israeli conflict as a whole, and ensuring the

In November 2009, the Foundation organized a seminar in Madrid on the theme “Guidelines for development in

In Africa, this includes Burundi, Central African Republic, Chad, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Uganda and Zimbabwe; in Asia, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Kashmir, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Myanmar/ Burma, Nepal, North Korea, Pakistan, Phillipines, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan; in Europe, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cyprus, Georgia,

The objective of the seminars, organized in cooperation with the Office for Disarmament Affairs, was to share knowledge and experience of the Convention in Latin America and the Caribbean, East and West Africa, the Horn of Africa, the Great

General literacy is high in the

In this respect, Turkey’s views regarding the Greek Cypriot attempts that are contrary to international law and

More than 140 countries participate in 13 regional seas programmes established under the auspices of UNEP: Black Sea, Wider Caribbean, East Asian Seas, Eastern

The Commission welcomed the regional initiative

Mutual cooperation between Homeland Security Investigations Attaché Beijing and the Ministry of Public Security (MPS) facilitated investigators from Homeland Security Investigations, Special Agent in Charge New York, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and

In the Medical Services Section, the establishment of 15 additional national posts (6 National Officers and 9 national General Service staff) is proposed, as the Section has over the past years expanded the services it provides, which include round-the-clock operation of the UNOCI headquarters clinic, which is now functioning at level I-plus rather than the previous level I; patients are followed up at their homes after discharge from level III hospitals; patients are

He also referred to the impact

The Commission was informed of initiatives that were being undertaken by Pacific island developing countries to protect biodiversity and the maintenance of ecosystem services, such as the Phoenix Islands

for the efforts of the Government of

Elite College Link (ECL), a leading

For example, the text of the Final Document had significantly watered down the commitments for nuclear-weapon States to reduce the operational status of their arsenals and to cease the development and qualitative improvement of their nuclear weapons; it did not oblige the nuclear-weapon States to abolish the role of nuclear weapons in their military doctrines or to accept a legally binding instrument for the prohibition of nuclear weapons; it did not call for the withdrawal of nuclear weapons from the territories of non-nuclearweapon States; it did not include the specific timeline for the total elimination of nuclear weapons called for by the Group of Non-Aligned States parties to the Treaty; and, in particular, it failed

The following least developed countries were represented during the course of the Trade Fair: Afghanistan,

At its sixty-sixth session, the General Assembly requested the Secretary-General to give further consideration to the option of securing the relevant compensation from the Government of Israel; to explore the value of the experience of the United Nations Compensation Commission in terms of defining environmental damage in a case such as the present oil slick, in measuring and quantifying the damage sustained and in determining the amount of

Other areas proposed for inclusion in mainstreaming approaches were: indigenous peoples; post-conflict countries and countries experiencing violence and conflict; culture of peace/peace-building; environment and environmental education; marginalized and vulnerable groups of society; people with disabilities; information on HIV/AIDS and malaria; dialogue among civilizations, cultures and peoples; promotion of