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The Admiral Kuznetsov supports strategic missile carrying submarines, surface ships and maritime missile-carrying aircraft of the Russian fleet.

Belarus, Moldova, Armenia and the Russian Federation have established National Committees for Bioethics.

[...] the Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti branch of the Women [...] [...]

The United Nations Secretary-General, the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Turkey, the Prime Minister of Nepal, Ms. Antonietta Rosa Gomes, Dr. Arjun [...] [...]

[...] [...] Zealand, Norway, Pakistan, Panama, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russian Federation, Singapore, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Syrian Arab Republic, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United States of America, Uruguay and Yugoslavia.

Subsequently, Albania, Angola, Argentina, Australia, Bangladesh, Belgium, Benin, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, China, Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Denmark, Djibouti, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Estonia, Guatemala, Iceland, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Mali, Morocco, Poland, the Republic of Korea, the Republic of Moldova, Romania, Rwanda, Senegal, Spain, Thailand, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Turkey, Ukraine, the United States of America and Zimbabwe joined the co-sponsors.

The workshop was co-organized by the Administration of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, the Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East of the Russian Federation and the secretariat of the Permanent Forum, with support from the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation (see E/C.19/2008/5/Add.6).

[...] [...] which the Russian mediators had strictly adhered in matters related to the Dniester region, which [...] [...]

On 25 and 26 April 2011, the Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Sergey Lavrov, went on a “regional tour” of Georgia’s occupied territories — Abkhazia and the Tskhinvali region.

The Russian Federation had made a number of major achievements in the development of its transport system, including: (a) completion of the construction of Chita-Khabarovsk road, which provided a seamless transport connection between the eastern and western borders; (b) progress in the implementation of the project for the rehabilitation of the trans-Korean railway; (c) reduction of transit time on the Trans-Siberian Railway to seven days (Transib 7 days) by 2015; and (d) the use of satellite tracking systems with the Global Orbital Navigation Satellite System (GLONASS) and GLONASS with the Global Positioning System (GPS).

In the absence of Mr. Momen (Bangladesh), Mr. Zdorov (Belarus), Vice-Chair, took the Chair.

In accordance with Rule 16, paragraph 3, of its Rules of Procedure, the Executive Board elected Mr Vladimir Kalamanov (Russian Federation) Chairperson of the Finance and Administrative Commission to replace Mr Evgueny Sidorov (Russian Federation) for the remainder of his term of office.

[...] the part of the Russian mediation team, a halt was put to Chisinau’s intentions to place the economy of the region under its own jurisdiction without regard for the unresolved political conflict and the risks of destabilizing the Dniester situation.

Among these are the large Russian-speaking population on both banks of the Dniester river, including Russian citizens (as many as 160,000 in the Dniester region), and also major business interests in the region, based on many decades of industrial cooperation.

The Co-Chairs met again jointly with Foreign Ministers Mammadyarov and Nalbandian in Zurich on 27 January 2009, and organized a joint meeting with Presidents Aliyev and Sarkisyan in Zurich on 28 January 2009, on the margins of the World Economic Forum.

As well, the First Preparatory Meeting took note of the designation of Ambassador Clara Inés Vargas of Colombia as Secretary-General of the Second Review Conference, the appointment by the Secretary-General of the United Nations of Mr. Peter Kolarov of the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs, Geneva Branch, as Executive Secretary of the Second Review Conference, and the request by the President-Designate that, in keeping with past practice, Mr. Kerry Brinkert, Director of the Implementation Support Unit, serve as the President’s Executive Coordinator.

As a result of the meetings and talks held in Kyiv and Dnipropetrovs’k, an agreement providing for further exploration of the possibilities for effective and fruitful cooperation in constructing wind turbines for wind power plants was signed by NSAU, Yuzhny Machine-Building Plant, Sumitomo Corporation and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries.

In the Europe and North America region, the Director-General paid official visits to Bulgaria (26-28 August 2003), where, in particular, he signed an operational plan for the project “Conservation of Monuments in the Ancient Plovdiv Reserve, Bulgaria”, and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (28-30 August 2003), where, with President Trajkovski, he co-chaired the Regional Forum on the Dialogue among Civilizations, in Ohrid (29-30 August 2003).

At the 41st meeting, on 24 March 2010, the representative of Thailand (on behalf of the main sponsors) introduced draft resolution A/HRC/13/L.5, sponsored by Chile, Egypt, Finland, France, Kenya, Maldives, Slovakia, Slovenia, Thailand and Uruguay and cosponsored by Austria, Belarus, Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cyprus, the Dominican Republic, Germany, Honduras, Hungary, Italy, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Malta, Morocco, the Netherlands, the Niger, Paraguay, Peru, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Uganda, Ukraine, the United Republic of Tanzania and Zimbabwe.

I also wish to reaffirm our deep appreciation to the members of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, its Bureau and its current and previous Chairmen, respectively, Ambassadors Abdou Salam Diallo and Paul Badji of Senegal, as well as its Vice-Chairmen, Ambassadors Zahir Tanin of Afghanistan and Pedro Núñez Mosquera of Cuba, and its Rapporteur, Ambassador Saviour Borg of Malta.

[...] [...] policies in the Transnistrian region in [...] [...]