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Another trade representative enquired whether dimethyl dicarbonate (DMDC) was a permitted preservative for food use in the proposed amendment.

The international community should focus on the social dimension of globalization; jobs, health and education should be viewed, not as by-products, but as key objectives of the globalization process.

At issue were the legal effects of reservations, acceptances and objections, on the one hand, and the legal effects of interpretative declarations and of reactions to such declarations on the other.

More information on the issue was available on the CFS website: “Food Safety Focus Issue No. 48” published in July 2010.

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We remain focused on credit market conditions, rather than rhetoric.

Focus will be set on policies that governments may implement to legally empower the poor, and enhance the capacity of billions of informal workers and entrepreneurs to fully benefit from and contribute to the market economy.

In yet some other instances, the focus was narrower and specific to the enforcement or adjudicatory aspects of jurisdiction, referring to (a) the ability of a national judge to bring proceedings and rule on certain crimes committed on foreign soil, by foreign nationals and against foreign nationals; or (b) the ability of a court to exercise its jurisdiction even in the absence of a link between the case and the forum State, such as territory, nationality of perpetrator or victim, or infringement upon the fundamental interests of the State.

If China refocused on projects that truly benefit the people of Myanmar, the results would stretch beyond economic development and enhanced stability into boosting China’s image in the country.

To provide a focus for collaborative efforts, cooperation and exchange of experiences among member countries, the key modalities described below are suggested.

During the last six months of the 2002-2003 biennium, the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) was the major focus of the Communication and Information Sector as UNESCO very actively sought to ensure that its concerns featured prominently on the Summit’s agenda.

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These projects include a 25% interest in Xstrata's eastern Canadian Donkin Coking Coal Project, a 100% interest in the large tonnage Zuun Mod Molybdenum and Copper project in Mongolia, a royalty interest in a developing construction material project in the United States as well as a 60% equity interest in TSX-V listed Advanced Primary Minerals.

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The interviews and focus group discussions also indicated a clear consensus that accountability for peace and security issues, as well as for their gender dimensions, needs to be significantly strengthened, particularly at the middle and senior levels.

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The developments taking place on various continents today, particularly on the African continent, bring into focus the ever-present danger of uncontrolled borders and the attendant challenges of illicit activities that include the illicit traffic in small arms and light weapons, terrorist networks and human and drug trafficking, as well as piracy, especially off the coast of Somalia and the Gulf of Guinea.

During the Review Period, the price of international coking coal had increased significantly, this drove up the price of China’s domestic coal price by 18% during the Review Period.

Mr. Matjila appealed to delegates to focus on the victims of racism and racial discrimination and work to protect past, present and future victims, strongly encouraging the delegates to use their diversity to find common ground upon which to assist victims.

However, major differences in patentability requirements, especially in the high technology areas such as biotechnology and computer software, means that mutual recognition of examination reports amongst the major patent offices may require further harmonisation.

Collaboration among the five programmes is a considerable asset to implement issue-driven research within a context of rapid socio-economic and cultural change, and thus is central to the concerns of Member States.

Our focus on Asia Pacific markets in which we have a leading position and depth of experience, combined with our financial strength and a highly motivated team, put us in a very strong position to optimise opportunities for further growth and generate strong and sustainable returns for our shareholders.

While the focus of concern for the industry downstream is gold produced in areas beset by conflict in Central Africa, notably the Democratic Republic of the Congo and its neighbours, the Panel noted that many of the proposals for enhanced controls have much to offer West Africa, in particular Liberia and Côte d’Ivoire, and urges the Government of Liberia to engage with OECD at the earliest opportunity in order to find ways of strengthening its control over the Liberian alluvial gold sector.

But given the considerable investment in developing and operating the oil sector, the Sudans remain important for China National Petroleum Company (CNPC), the state-owned oil giant, and thus a focus for the government.

It reaffirmed that there would be no renegotiation of the agreements contained in the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action, and recommended that intersessional meetings of the Human Rights Council focusing on follow-up to the World Conference and implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action should not be scheduled so as to overlap with relevant General Assembly meetings.

5) Early analysis based on results of visual inspection of the salvage hull and interior as well as various modelling and scientific methodologies from various sources quickly identified 15 possible causes that could have resulted in the sinking of theCheonan (gun magazine(s) explosion; fuel tank explosion; catastrophic diesel engine failure/conflagration; catastrophic gas turbine engine failure/conflagration; bottom mine; moored influence mine; contact mine; under keel torpedo; contact torpedo; surface explosion; ballistic contact; improvised explosive device (IED)/non-contact mine; hogging/sagging/welding failure/material fatigue failure; grounding; and collision with submarine or other object); however, 13 were ruled out and focus shifted to an external underwater explosion (moored influence mine and under keel torpedo).

Even though the average realised selling prices in the first half of 2010 were higher than that in the same period of 2009, gross profit margin decreased due to (1) the increase in gross loss on coke production that accounted for 4% of the Group’s turnover; and (2) during the period, the increase in unit cost of raw coking coal was attributable by (i) increase in average unit cost as a result of the decrease in production volume of raw coal from approximately 3.25 million tonnes in the first half of 2009 to 2.96 million tonnes in the first half of 2010 due to temporary closed down production during the change of the long wall in our mines in the second quarter of 2010; and (ii) the increase in labour cost, depreciation and additional levies as mentioned in the above under “Cost of Sales”.