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We had outgrown our original offices and the new space provides expanded facilities and positions us well for future growth.

Whatever the case may be, it significantly skews the analysis of the efforts that need to be made to diversify and multiply extrabudgetary funding sources.

[...] [...] 12.8 kilometres (km) of sewers ranging from 150 millimetres (mm) to 300 mm in diameter for 11 unsewered areas, namely Kap Pin Long, Nam Shan, Pak Kong, San Uk, Sha Kok Mei, Tai Ping Village, Tai Shui Tseng, Wo Tong Kong, Lung Wo Tsuen, Pik Shui Sun Tsuen and the area in vicinity of Fei Ngo Shan Road; (b) about 3.6 km gravity trunk sewers ranging from 225 mm to 450 mm in diameter along Clear Water Bay Road from Shun Chi Street to Razor Hill Road and around Pik Shui Sun Tsuen; (c) one sewage pumping station (SPS) at Pik Shui Sun Tsuen; (d) about 900 metres of twin rising mains ranging from 150 mm to 350 mm in diameter at Pik Shui Sun Tsuen (in association with construction of the SPS in (c) above) and along sections of [...] [...]

It was also suggested that FAO should undertake technical work in the following five priority areas to assist States and RFMOs implement resolutions 61/105 and 64/72 and the FAO Guidelines: (i) improving and expanding application of the criteria for the identification of VMEs beyond corals, sponges, seamounts and hydrothermal vents; (ii) developing guidance on impact mitigation measures and best practices for developing and applying encounter protocols relevant to VMEs, particularly by RFMOs; (iii) developing guidance on what and how information should be collected to implement measures for managing fishery impacts on VMEs; (iv) defining certain terms that could clarify implementation of the FAO Guidelines; and (v) developing guidance on best practices for conducting assessments.

In paragraph 83 (a) of resolution 61/105, the General Assembly called upon RFMO/As to assess, on the basis of the best available scientific information, whether individual bottom fishing activities would have significant adverse impacts on VMEs, and to ensure that activities that would have significant adverse impacts on these ecosystems were managed to prevent such impacts, or not authorized to proceed.

Such support included effective ocean governance, which was a global issue that required the efforts of governments in the Asia-Pacific region, and in distant nations dependent on fishing, to better regulate fishing and help combat illegal, unregulated and unreported fishing.

As regards item (b) (mains laying), the increase of $131.4 million takes into account the latest market price trend for major materials which are specifically adopted for DCS (such as large diameter thermal insulated underground chilled water pipes and accessories) and unexpected site constraints (such as additional interfacing issues between the underground DCS pipes and other underground facilities at KTD requiring deeper excavation for DCS pipes laying and additional pipe jacking below utilities) as reflected in the tender return for Phase I and II works.

We therefore demand that the Security Council assume its responsibilities under the Charter of the United Nations and not settle for making press statements, but rather immediately adopt a resolution that compels Israel, the occupying Power, to stop its land, sea and air military aggression on the Gaza Strip; immediately withdraw its forces; lift the siege on Gaza; open the crossings; end the policy of collective punishment; and provide protection for the Palestinian people, including the protection of health and educational institutions that are safe havens, as attacks on such safe havens are illegal.

While bottom-set longlines may snag and damage benthic epifauna and irregular objects on the bottom, longline fisheries do offer the potential to conduct fishing without severe habitat damage and to do so in a relatively energy-conscious manner.