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The relevant meeting is open and provided with interpretation and press services, but is not covered by summary records.

Despite such challenges, there were many important accomplishments, including: (a) responding to the majority of the claims brought to the Office, including the provision of summary advice (206 instances), to clients in more than 80 countries; (b) closure or resolution of 54 per cent of the 938 cases filed with the Office of Staff Legal Assistance during the year; (c) a high success rate before the Dispute Tribunal; (d) undertaking outreach to staff in the field; and (e) the development of relationships with internal and external partners, including United Nations staff unions and associations, staff-at-large, the Office of the United Nations Ombudsman and Mediation Services, the legal offices of the Secretariat and United Nations agencies, funds and programmes, law offices providing pro bono legal counsel, schools and universities.

According to the Secretary-General, the decrease is due to anticipated efficiencies arising from the proactive management and prioritization of resources, including through minimizing the non-local recruitment of temporary staff, technological investment in conference-servicing processes, stricter enforcement of page limits and increased use of contractual translation, as well as cost-reduction measures related to summary records and the provision of conference services to funds and programmes at Headquarters (see also para. I.45 above).

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Nonetheless, for those who wanted it, the “About DPI” link contained further information on the Department’s mission and structure, including an organizational chart with pop-up boxes that provided a short explanation of each Division’s activities and a link to its individual web page.

The Commission was briefed on the macroeconomic performance, progress in achieving the Millennium Development Goals and development strategies of member countries.

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The representatives the joint working group established to advance and monitor the implementation of the Addis Ababa road map briefed the meeting on its highlights and provided information on the action taken after the dialogue between the two mechanisms, including the appointment of focal points within the respective secretariats and an increase in regular exchanges of information, such as notes forecasting the relevant activities of both systems; regular mailing of the special procedures bulletin to the African Commission; participation in each other’s sessions or annual meetings; the preparation of a comparative note between the two special procedures systems; reciprocal follow-up to the recommendations of each mechanism; and peer-to-peer learning.

Furthermore, the General Committee may wish to draw to the attention of the General Assembly that the practice of reproducing statements in extenso as separate documents has been discontinued for all its subsidiary organs that are entitled to summary records and that any exceptions to this rule may be made by the body concerned only if the statements are to serve as bases for discussion and if, after hearing a statement of the relevant financial implications, the body decides that one or more statements in extenso may be included in the summary record, or reproduced as separate documents or as annexes to authorized documents (resolution 38/32 E, paras. 8 and 9).

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Below is a short extract about the main location factors which we must consider during the investment process.

FAO and WHO would also undertake to review, with priority, the residue studies on ractopamine in pigs, carried out by China, a summary of which had been presented both to CCRVDF and the Commission.

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In its decision 2011/257, the Economic and Social Council decided that the Commission should make efforts to reduce the length of its annual reports, bearing in mind the need for such reports to include resolutions and decisions adopted or transmitted by the Commission at its sessions, as well as briefer summaries of its deliberations under each agenda item, focusing in particular on policy findings and conclusions reached.

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1. The summary records of public meetings of the Committee in their final form shall be documents of general distribution unless, in exceptional circumstances, the Committee decides otherwise.

The Secretary-General wishes to recall that, as at past sessions, during the sixty-fifth session verbatim records will continue to be provided for the plenary meetings of the General Assembly and the meetings of the First Committee and summary records will be provided to the other Main Committees and the General Committee of the Assembly.

ACPR was briefed on the following ongoing ESCAP initiatives and relevant events: (a) the work of ESCAP on the development of community e-centres to address poverty and bridge the digital divide; (b) the Asia-Pacific High-level Intergovernmental Meeting to Review Regional Implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action and Its Regional and Global Outcomes; (c) the Asia Pacific Disaster Report, a joint publication of ESCAP and the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction; (d) preparations for the Sixth Ministerial Conference on Environment and Development in Asia and the Pacific; and (e) improving informal sector and informal employment measurement: the role of interregional cooperation.

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The Planning Group notes that the website on the work of the Commission includes information on the current status of the topics on the agenda of the Commission, as well as advance edited versions of summary records of the Commission.