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Prior to and during this transitional period, UNESCO contacted key players to bring their attention to the need to protect Iraq’s cultural property against destruction, pillaging and illicit import, export and trade: the United Nations Secretary-General, the US and UK authorities, the ministries of culture of neighbouring countries of Iraq (namely Kuwait, Turkey, the Islamic Republic of Iran, Saudi Arabia, Syria and Jordan), Interpol, the World Customs Organization and the World Confederation of Art Dealers (CINOA).

Furthermore, experts highlighted the particular challenges facing small island developing States and the need to ensure that countries with high forest cover with low rates of deforestation benefited from schemes to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation.

If the lessee, members of his/her family or other persons, who live together with them, systematically destroy or damage the living spaces, or do not use them according to its purpose, or if by systematically breaching the common living rules make it impossible for others to live with them in the same apartment or in the same house, and the preventive and public constraint measures have not showed any progress, the evacuation of the guilty ones at the request of the leaser or other interested parties is made without a subsequent offer of another living space.

At its sixty-fifth session, the General Assembly called upon Member States to establish appropriate national laws and/or measures to prevent and combat the illicit brokering of conventional arms and of materials, equipment and technology that could contribute to the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and their means of delivery, in a manner consistent with international law; acknowledged that national efforts to prevent and combat illicit brokering activities can be reinforced by such efforts at the regional and subregional levels; emphasized the importance of international cooperation and assistance, capacity-building and information-sharing in preventing and combating illicit brokering activities; and encouraged Member States to draw, where appropriate, on the relevant expertise of civil society in developing effective measures to prevent and combat illicit brokering activities (resolution 65/75).

Reiterating South Africa’s condemnation of the continuing blockade, the ongoing construction of the separation wall and the expansion of Israeli settlements, he also again called on Israel to cease expansion of settlements in the West Bank and its demolition of Palestinian homes there and in East Jerusalem, which were severely damaging the social and economic structures of the West Bank and Gaza, increasing unemployment, poverty and reliance on humanitarian assistance and directly affecting the enjoyment of economic and social rights.

Expressing grave concern in particular about Israel’s construction and expansion of settlements in and around occupied East Jerusalem, including its so called E-1 plan that aims to connect its illegal settlements around and further isolate occupied East Jerusalem, the continuing demolition of Palestinian homes and eviction of Palestinian families from the city, the revocation of Palestinian residency rights in the city, and ongoing settlement activities in the Jordan Valley

In this connection, Egypt, which hosted the International Conference in Support of the Palestinian Economy for the Reconstruction of Gaza early this month, renews its call for Israel to ensure the immediate, unconditional and sustained reopening of its crossing points with the Gaza Strip in order to allow for the movement of people, goods and reconstruction materials into Gaza, put an end to the continuously escalating humanitarian crisis, and rebuild what was destroyed.

Some experts also stated that considerable uncertainties remained with regard to reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, in terms of both technical factors and the development of a market that would generate revenue for sustainable forest management.

Accordingly, these State parties must make a particular effort to ensure that the information they provide on each area that contains mines or is suspected to contain mines is as comprehensive as possible, i.e. that it includes the name of each area identified, its precise geographical location, its size, the estimated quantity of anti-personnel mines emplaced in the area, the area of land released, the methods used to make the area non-hazardous, the quantity of anti-personnel mines destroyed, the date of land release and lastly the size of the area still to be cleared, if applicable.

Regarding the project proposal, several members praised the innovative design of the project, but sought clarification on a number of issues, including how sustainability would be achieved, how the information on the various outcomes would be disseminated to relevant facilities in China, the eligibility of some of the proposed supporting activities under a pilot project, the high costs of destruction compared to similar projects approved for other countries, and how the destruction and waste management approaches used in the pilot demonstration projects would be extended to sectors other than domestic refrigeration.

At the 10th meeting, on 16 October, the representative of India, on behalf of Afghanistan, Albania, Armenia, Bangladesh, Belgium, Bhutan, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Chile, Croatia, the Czech Republic, El Salvador, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, India, Ireland, Italy, Kuwait, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Mauritius, Monaco, Myanmar, Nepal, the Netherlands, Norway, the Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, the Russian Federation, Samoa, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Thailand, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Togo, Turkey and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, introduced a draft resolution entitled “Measures to prevent terrorists from acquiring weapons of mass destruction” (A/C.1/63/L.34).

The GICHD added that the destruction method to be used by Ukraine is safe, affordable, easily upgradable to national emission standards, simple to maintain and operate, built using readily-available materials and capable of sustaining high rates of output.

It also participated in: (a) consultation tours and public meetings on the Commission on the Status of Women; (b) annual Hiroshima/Nagasaki commemoration programmes pertaining to the abolition of nuclear weapons; (c) national conferences on women and peace, disarmament, non-violence and sustainable clean energy; (d) various discussions and events on the implementation of Security Council resolution 1325 (2000); (e) campaigns such as “Make Poverty History”; (f) public lectures on the abolition of war, women and development, anti-trafficking and demilitarization; (g) a peacebuilding symposium in Rwanda; (h) presentations to examine the impact of war on youth and to mark the sixtieth anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; (i) workshops for Somali youth in support of gender equality education, as called for in the Agreed Conclusions of the Commission on the Status of Women; (j) a public forum against nuclear weapons.

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 violence, which mainly affected innocent civilians, in particular women, children, older persons and persons with disabilities, took the form of abductions, forced disappearances, illegal detention, the destruction of economic facilities and infrastructure, as well as places of worship, schools, universities and transport, communications, electricity, fuel and water networks, together with attacks against ethnic and religious minorities.

The current session of the Disarmament Commission comes at a time when relevant regional and international developments in the field of armaments and disarmament underscore the fact that the only way to secure international peace and security is to reactivate multilateral efforts aimed at countering the proliferation of nuclear weapons and weapons of mass destruction and to prevent the balance between nuclear- and non-nuclear-weapon States from being upset any further.

Examples were given of national, bilateral, regional and international programmes to further socio-economic and sustainable development, notably in the following areas: agriculture and fishery; climate change monitoring; detecting illegal crops and opium poppy cultivation; early warning of and response to natural and man-made disasters; geology; humanitarian relief; hydrology; managing ecosystems and natural resources; mapping biodiversity resources, coastal zones, land use, wasteland and wetlands; monitoring air quality, desertification, droughts, food security, deforestation, the ionosphere and weather; oceanography; rural development and urban planning; and search and rescue efforts.

The serious engagement of Palestinian factions over the past month in a dialogue process mediated by Egypt has led to the establishment of five committees that are working on national reconciliation issues, the successful outcome of the Cairo international conference on the reconstruction of Gaza and the further efforts of the Palestinian Authority to improve socio-economic rehabilitation and reconstruction, especially in the face of the devastating global financial crisis.

Indeed, in addition to illegally confiscating land and constructing settlements, Israel continues to apply a host of other illegal measures aimed at driving out the indigenous Palestinian population, including the demolition of homes (the occupying Power has demolished at least 31 Palestinian residential buildings, leaving 106 Palestinian civilians, including 61 children, homeless since the start of this year), the revocation of residency rights, the continued closure of Palestinian institutions in the city and the recent decision to ban social activists from travelling to other parts of the West Bank, effectively severing them from their work and familial relations with their natural surroundings.

The Conference requested FAO to continue support for initiatives in member countries to test and demonstrate the feasibility of various climate change adaptation and mitigation activities in the agricultural sectors, such as the United Nations Collaborative Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries (UN-REDD).

The concept of absolute novelty whereby any disclosure including through use, anywhere in the world, is sufficient to destroy the novelty of an invention therefore remains a necessary safeguard.

Immediate freezing of all “assets” or “funds”, as defined by Law No. 92 of 17 June 2008 and its subsequent amendments, which are owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by the persons and entities designated by the Security Council or by the Committee and listed in the enclosure to the annex to document S/2009/364, or by persons or entities acting on their behalf or at their direction, or by entities owned or controlled by them; the prohibition of the transfer of such “assets” or “funds” to the natural or legal persons, entities or bodies being responsible for the nuclear, other weapons of mass destructionrelated and ballistic missile-related programmes of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, or for the benefit of such persons or entities, or to persons and entities acting on their behalf or at their direction, or to entities owned or controlled by them.

Because of the increasing issues related to the management of radioisotopes (supply, transport, disposal, impossibility to turn radiation off ), it is expected that gamma sterilization will gradually be replaced by E-beam and X-ray.

Expressing grave concern about the continuation by Israel, the occupying Power, of settlement activities in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, in violation of international humanitarian law, relevant United Nations resolutions and the agreements reached between the parties, and concerned particularly about Israel’s construction and expansion of settlements in and around occupied East Jerusalem, including its so-called E-1 plan that aims to connect its illegal settlements around and further isolate occupied East Jerusalem, the continuing demolition of Palestinian homes and eviction of Palestinian families from the city, and intensifying settlement activities in the Jordan Valley

The Department of Energy’s Office of Global Security Engagement and Cooperation (GSEC), in coordination with and funding from EXBS, trains strategic trade specialists in risk assessment and WMD-related commodity identification (paras. 3 (c) and 3 (d) of resolution 1540 (2004)), and has helped the United States Government sponsor regional 1540-related workshops in the former Soviet States, the ASEAN States, and the Middle East.

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