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It is a source of income for those who depend on its generous waters.

In these areas too, Africa’s commitments have yielded fruit, and many countries are now enjoying political stability.

Scholars and experts from all over the world, with frontline public opinion researchers, will gather to discuss the relations between public opinion research and democratic development, the significance of opinion polling, the responsibility of journalists, the trimming of freedom to publish opinion polls around the world, and so on.

On the other hand, it is necessary for the community to care for and respect this team of kindergarten teachers who are hard working and dedicated to their work by giving them reasonable emoluments to safeguard their livelihood.

This responsibility includes designing, implementing and maintaining internal control relevant to the preparation and the true and fair presentation of financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error; selecting and applying appropriate accounting policies; and making accounting estimates that are reasonable in the circumstances.

[...] [...] establishment of a dialogue mechanism [...] [...]

The National Central Bureau carried out other specific work such as appointing the terrorism liaison official; linking the INTERPOL I-24/7 computer system and police units, giving the General Directorate of Migration and Immigration access to the Fixed Interpol Network Database and Mobile Interpol Network Database (FIND/MIND) to check passenger lists at the international airport in order to prevent terrorists from entering and passing through the country; updating the database of lost and stolen passports; and investigating and registering international foundations that wanted to operate in the country.

Therefore, I appeal to the Chief Executive to include in the already announced membership of the Task Force more relevant persons in future-oriented industries, especially experts who are well-versed in the new economy and new technological development, and elites and foreign experts with a good understanding of the operation of SMEs in order to elicit their opinions and assist SMEs which have all along been working hard quietly, and to seek new impetus for economic development in Hong Kong.

However, some of those proposals have been superseded as a result of subsequent events and the emergence of new requirements, in particular the establishment of a central business continuity management unit to address business continuity issues on a broader, Organization-wide basis, taking into account pandemic planning and other non-information and communications technology aspects (see A/64/472 and document A/64/7/Add.8 in the present supplement), as well as the requirement for a new secondary data centre in the context of the relocations due to the capital master plan (see A/64/346/Add.1).

The inordinate length of translation times, especially in cases of selfrepresented appellants, calls for greater explanation than suitable for a report of this size, but it can be said that efforts are under way to more effectively liaise with the supervisors in the Conference and Language Services Section on a continual basis in order to assess progress and determine the need for requesting prioritization of specific translations, and to readdress the internal requirement of the Conference and Language Services Section that the revision process for translation of a judgement must be accomplished as a whole, rather than volume by volume (which would allow for gradual release of translated portions).