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The Commission took note of a number of national initiatives, including the introduction of ICT strategies and legislation, that had contributed to the region’s emergence as a global centre for ICT production and innovation.

While the contribution of fisheries has been declining over time, it still remains vital to the economy, as it is the main source of food and employment in a number of atolls.

The activities undertaken within this function will include: (a) producing country, regional and global-level technical and programme guidance covering the substantive areas in which UN-Women works, from ending violence against women to increasing women’s contributions to peace and security; (b) devising and coordinating multi-stakeholder, holistic country programmes that involve inter-agency participation and national partners in line with national and regional policies and priorities and that are consistent with UN-Women’s Strategic Plan; (c) ongoing, on-demand technical support to national partners and UNCTs in UN-Women’s core areas of work (e.g., support to NWMs; support to women’s organizations and networks; support to the Resident Coordinator and gender thematic groups; and support to reporting on and implementing CEDAW); and (d) the management and monitoring of global programmes and trust funds.

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Marine science and its supporting technologies, through improving knowledge and applying it to management and decision-making, can make a major contribution to eliminating poverty; ensuring food security; supporting human economic activity; conserving the world’s marine environment; helping to predict, mitigate the effects of and respond to natural events and disasters; and generally promoting the use of the oceans and their resources for the objective of sustainable development (see A/56/121, para. 3).

Cooperation with the work of the secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change: (a) in recognition of the work developed by the ARPEL Climate Change Working Group since its creation in 1999, the secretariat of the Framework Convention accepted ARPEL as an official observer to the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol and its subsidiary bodies, during the tenth Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in December 2004 in Buenos Aires; (b) ARPEL report on the contribution of the oil and gas industry to greenhouse gas emissions reduction in Latin America and the Caribbean was presented at the same Conference; (c) participation of ARPEL at the eleventh Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in November and December 2005 in Montreal, Canada.

The Chairperson suggested that there were several ways in which the Commission could contribute: (a) by requesting, once more, that the Chairperson of the Commission make a statement at the annual ministerial review to highlight the contributions of population and development issues to the implementation of the internationally agreed goals and commitments in regard to global public health; (b) by inviting the President of the Council to address the Commission under item 6 of its agenda for the forty-second session in order to launch a discussion on the relevance of population issues to the attainment of the goals and commitments on global public health; and (c) by requesting the Secretariat to look into the possibility of organizing a side-event at the time of the annual ministerial review that would highlight the interrelations between population issues and global health.

UNESCO Venice Office contributed to the identification of the key activities to be carried out within the MDG-F joint programme “Sustainable Tourism and Rural Development”, in relation with the UNESCO designated sites included in the areas selected by the project component to be implemented by UNWTO (tourism related to World Heritage Sites and biosphere reserves).

The States members of the Organization of American States (OAS) adopted resolution AG/RES. 2533 (XL-O/10) entitled “Disarmament and non-proliferation in the hemisphere”, bearing in mind the determination of the international community to promote and adopt specific measures to foster a culture of peace and non-violence in all countries of the world and the significant contribution that disarmament and non-proliferation education can make in adopting such measures, and recalling that, in the Declaration on Security in the Americas, the States reaffirmed their commitment to arms control, disarmament, and the non-proliferation of all weapons of mass destruction.

The meeting stressed the importance of the following actions for least developed country development: (a) domestic resource mobilization; (b) enhancing the quantity and quality of official development assistance to least developed countries; (c) attracting foreign direct investments to least developed countries’ priority sectors through home country incentives; (d) tapping innovative sources of finance, including migrant remittances for least developed countries’ development; (e) the creation of a special crisis mitigation and resilience-building facility for least developed countries to enable them to respond to shocks; and (f) the establishment of a “global financial safety net” for least developed countries on a permanent basis that could make a major contribution to their socio-economic development.

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Identify and utilize local sources of information on the impact of armed conflict, the impact of interventions of peace operations on women and girls and the roles and contributions of women and girls in conflict situations, including through the establishment of regular contacts with women’s groups and networks.

This is particularly critical because WIPO’s contribution to the MDGs is a joint responsibility of both the Member States and the Secretariat.

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In that regard, the report would also provide useful additional information supplementing the contribution of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space to the Conference contained in document A/AC.105/993.

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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.

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Executive Director, CIRDDOC Nigeria; member — International Steering Committee, Coalition on the International Criminal Court (CICC), New York; Advisory Board of Global Fund for Women, San Francisco, USA; Member, National Technical Committee on CEDAW; National Committee on the Review of Discriminatory Laws against Women; National Drafting Committee on the Nigeria Country Report on CEDAW 2006; Nigerian Movement for Children; Coordinator, National Coalition on Affirmative Action.

One delegation proposed that the effectiveness of the Trust Fund should be measured not only by the number of participants supported by the Trust Fund but also by looking at the actual contribution of Trust Fund-supported participants to the Codex process, such as how many unique interventions had been made to stimulate the discussion.

Pursuant to paragraph 3 of Economic and Social Council resolution 1894 (LVII), the Committee will have before it the draft provisional agenda for its fiftieth session, with an indication of the documents to be submitted under each agenda item and the legislative authority for their preparation, in order to enable the Committee to consider those documents, their contribution to its work, their urgency and their relevance in the light of the current situation.