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Focus will be placed on promoting systemic reform of secondary education curriculum as well as national policies for enhancing linkages between general secondary and vocational programmes, the emphasis being on life skills development for employability and effective citizenship.

Despite that broad conceptual acknowledgment, the political debate continues, first, on the nature of the security-development nexus; secondly, on the types of policies that should be pursued to achieve durable peace, security and sustainable development, including to address the root causes and drivers of conflicts; and thirdly, on the way forward for the Security Council to prevent the eruption or protraction of, or relapse into, violence, given the changing nature of conflicts and the security-development nexus, as well expressed in the concept note prepared by the Mission of Brazil (S/2011/50, annex).

The Secretary-General also states that inter-agency coordination and collaboration among United Nations system agencies working in Africa will be strengthened through the regional consultation meetings of those agencies convened by ECA in support of the priorities of NEPAD (ibid., para. 18A.8).

No funds, financial assets, or economic assets previously frozen, and belonging to Osama bin Laden, or members of the Al-Qaida or the Taliban or associated individuals or entities have been released pursuant to resolution 1452 (2002) as there has been no frozen assets.

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At its resumed sixty-fourth session, the General Assembly reaffirmed the commitment by all States to establish a monitoring mechanism to follow up on all commitments related to the development of Africa, as contained in the political declaration on Africa’s development needs; reaffirmed its full support for the implementation of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development, and its commitment to the full implementation of the political declaration on Africa’s development needs; and requested the Secretary-General to submit a comprehensive report on the implementation of the resolution to the Assembly at its sixty-fifth session on the basis of inputs from Governments, organizations of the United Nations system and other stakeholders in the New Partnership (resolution 64/258).

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The Commission requested the secretariat to consider a joint ESCAPEconomic Commission for Europe (ECE)-Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) project on interregional land and land/sea transport linkages, which would lead towards the preparation and formulation of relevant transport agreements between countries of the region.

Other challenges include an increasing need for a systemic and sustained approach to innovation policy and practice, including the effective distribution and commercialization of new technologies and the need for better dissemination of technologies through the patent system.

The Delegation, pointing out that this point was also emphasized in the Guidelines for the Validation of Food Safety Control Measures adopted at the current session, which provided that control measures required validation on a case-by-case basis, proposed that the restriction be lifted, but that the use of the LPS be conditional on infrastructure and validation and be based on mutual agreements between countries depending on patterns of trade, and in line with this observation, further proposed to amend footnote 9 in Appendix A: Microbiostatic Control Measures - Code of Practice for Milk and Milk Products by the addition of the following: "Any trade in milk treated by the lactoperoxidase system should only be on the basis of mutual agreement between countries concerned, and without prejudice to trade with other countries.

A collective agreement is a voluntary agreement between employees or a union or federation of employees and an employer or an association or federation of employers, and also state agencies or local authorities, which regulates labour relations between employers and employees.

Where existing practices have to be substantially changed, social and political interests challenged, and previously unconnected issues brought together, considerable thought and effort may be required, building support for action across a range of agents.

The Representative of WHO pointed out that the effectiveness of the LPS was limited to short periods and therefore its applicability to products in international trade was limited because of longer duration of transport.

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Ms. Ghanea drew five preliminary conclusions: (a) the discussion on limitations to freedom of expression could not be dissociated from the overall obligations under the Covenant as a whole, such as full equality before the law, due process and rights of minorities; (b) random or orchestrated acts of violence that have no reasonable link to expression should not justify limitations to freedom of expression; (c) where hatred itself incited to violence, it showed a broader pattern of violations; triggering article 20 demonstrated a failure of the State to guarantee the right to non-discrimination under article 26; (d) article 20 also required a careful and calibrated range of sanctions; at a minimum, it should not infringe expression itself and at a maximum it could trigger sanction; care had to be taken for the limitations not to have a chilling effect on freedom of expression in general; and (e) other actions in the national sphere were needed.

Lessons from other economies have indicated that introducing more players into the electricity market to provide customer choice is not without risks, and lower supply reliability and price fluctuations could be the outcome.

The Commission adopted draft resolutions entitled “Modalities for the second review and appraisal of the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing, 2002”, “Policies and programmes involving youth”, “Further promotion of equalization of opportunities by, for and with persons with disabilities and mainstreaming disability in the development agenda”, “Preparation for and observance of the twentieth anniversary of the International Year of the Family” and “Social dimensions of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development”.

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Under the sanctions regime, all States are requested to prevent the direct or indirect supply, sale or transfer, to Osama bin Laden, members of Al-Qaida organization, and the Taliban and other individuals and entities associated with them, from their territories or by their nationals outside their territories of arms and related materiel of all types, including the provision of spare parts and technical advice, assistance, or training related to military activities (paragraph 2 (c) of resolution 1390 (2002) and paragraph 1 of resolution 1455 (2003).

The main objective is to generate information and raise awareness about the interface of IP and CP and to identify international trends that Member States can use in devising development-oriented national policies.

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(b) when the proposed new index system is found to be acceptable, to develop a turn-key system to come with detailed instruction manuals, necessary software and thorough staff training courses, and to recommend a detailed plan for smooth transition from the existing to the new reporting system.

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These 12 posts comprise one P-2 post of Associate Economic Affairs Officer under executive direction and management; one P-2 post under subprogramme 1, Linkages with the global economy, regional integration and cooperation; one P-2 post under subprogramme 2, Production and innovation; one P-2 post under subprogramme 3, Macroeconomic policies and growth; one P-2 post under subprogramme 5, Social development and equality; one P-2 post under subprogramme 12, Subregional activities in Mexico and Central America; one Local level post under subprogramme 13, Subregional activities in the Caribbean; and one P-4 temporary post, one P-2 post and three Local level posts under programme support.

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The representative of the Secretariat noted that both projects were in line with decision 55/43(e), which, inter alia, invited bilateral and implementing agencies to prepare and submit a limited number of time-specific project proposals involving interested systems houses or chemical suppliers for the development, optimization and validation of chemical systems for use with non-HCFC blowing agents.