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Around the year 2000, roughly 45 per cent of people aged 60 or over in the less developed regions lived together with a child who was in the peak working age (a child aged at least 25 years), while nearly 30 per cent lived only with their younger children or in skipped-generation households with grandchildren.

We will therefore pay particular attention to the vulnerable and to those with special needs : including children, elderly persons, women in menopausal prime and people with physical and mental disabilities.

I call on all of us to greet the coming century and new millennium with the will to succeed and the confidence that success will be ours.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and grantee staff showed their appreciation for their Senior Environmental Employment (SEE) Enrollees at the biennial SEE Recognition Event.

[...] [...] Strategic changes and continuities after Iraq (Washington, D.C., May 2004).

[...] [...] Towns and Urban Areas (Washington Charter) in 1987, the adoption [...] [...]

The annual fine wine tasting fair in Hong Kong organised by one of China’s leading fine wine importers, ASC Fine Wines, will for the first time be extended to Macao at The Venetian  Macao Resort Hotel’s Portofino Restaurant on November 28.

[...] [...] “education day”; United States Army lessons-learned exercises to be held in Kansas and in Washington, D.C.; an annual meeting of the Global Clearinghouse for Peacekeeping Capacity-Building; [...] [...]

[...] East Peace, convened in Washington, D.C., on 1 October [...] [...]

[...] [...] his childhood (Sera del giorno festivo).

The Directors of the Company, having made all reasonable enquiries, confirm that, to the best of their knowledge and belief:— (1) the information contained in this report is accurate and complete in all material respects and not misleading; (2) there are no other matters the omission of which would make any statement in this report misleading; and (3) all opinions expressed in this report have been arrived at after due and careful consideration and are founded on bases and assumptions that are fair and reasonable.

(b) to conduct reviews and studies on Hong Kong’s economy, human resources, education, housing, land supply, environmental protection and relations with the Mainland to ensure that Hong Kong’s resources are well-used, and that Hong Kong keeps up with world trends in competitive terms, and to maintain the vitality of economic development.

In Seattle, Washington, for example, [...] [...]

Ordinary resolutions will also be proposed at the Annual General Meeting in respect of the granting of the Issue Mandate to the Directors, in the terms set out in the notice of the Annual General Meeting, to allot, issue and deal with Shares not exceeding 20% of the aggregate nominal amount of the share capital of the Company in issue as at the date of passing the relevant resolution, and adding to the Issue Mandate so granted to the Directors any Shares representing the aggregate nominal amount of the Shares repurchased by the Company after the granting of the Repurchase Mandate, at any time during the period ended on the earliest of (a) the conclusion of the next annual general meeting of the Company; (b) the expiration of the period within which the next annual general meeting of the Company is required by the Articles or any applicable laws to be held; and (c) the date upon which such authority is revoked or varied by an ordinary resolution at a general meeting of Shareholders.

A host of concrete proposals were suggested to the coordinators of the Dialogue, such as: dialogue and networking among universities; dialogue among young scientists, involving UNESCO chairholders in dialogue activities; dialogue among student journalists and seasoned media practitioners from both regions; the holding of youth forums; reactivation of the Committee for the Translation of Literary Works and increase in the translation of Arabic works into European languages; a comparative study of school textbooks; dialogue involving professionals from cultural industries; the organization of an interregional conference on the image of Arab-Islamic culture in European history books.

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 regularly visited in the 11 level III hospitals in Abidjan and in Sector West and Sector East; doctors in the regional headquarters perform outreach activity by visiting remote offices twice a week; support is provided to the Government during important functions and to the United Nations country team as part of the United Nations integrated framework; and medical support is proposed to be provided eight hours a day at the logistics base in Koumassi as opposed to the current two hours a day.

Furthermore, as noted in paragraph 2 above, pursuant to General Assembly resolution 63/266, the Secretary-General has included in his report a projection of the total budget for special political missions for the biennium 2010–2011, which he estimates could amount to some $1,148,739,700, or $319,811,300 more than the provision for special political missions in the proposed programme budget for the biennium 2010–2011 (see A/64/349, para. 78 and annex III).

It is noteworthy that programmes implemented by the Office in the area education focused on the following strategic areas of support, all directly responding to strategies and results contained in Kenya Education Sector Support Programme (KESSP), the education sector’s plan to materialize Vision 2030: strengthening the planning, monitoring and evaluation of the education system through EMIS; enhancing the education sector responses to HIV and AIDS; improving the quality of education for peace programme; and strengthening literacy development through advocacy and technical support to strategic planning.