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She also noted that specific groups of older persons, such as older migrants, older persons with disabilities, the “oldest” old and dependent older persons, required close attention from policymakers, particularly in the realm of long-term care and special measures of protection.

Although it is still early in the biennium, certain trends and developments are already becoming apparent in Programme V.I, which contains the principal priority of “fostering equitable access to information and knowledge for development, especially in the public domain”.

As this report was being finalized the Committee had met twice and the benefits were already being felt.

Furthermore, many impacts of the crisis in developing countries, such as slowing growth, reduced demand and employment, and declining budgets are only now beginning to unfold, severely threatening progress on health, education and child protection, and leaving children with the long-term mental and physical repercussions of malnutrition.

The Group is concerned by a low, but discernable, level of civil discontent, primarily in the rural areas, owing to the constant racketeering and criminality which is becoming ever more endemic.

At the first meeting of the Fourth Session of the Board of Directors held on 30 March 2007, Mr. Yin Yimin was reappointed President of the Company, Mr. Shi Lirong, Mr. He Shiyou, Mr. Wei Zaisheng (concurrently re-appointed as Chief Financial Officer of the Company), Mr. Xie Daxiong, Ms. Zhou Susu and Mr. Tian Wenguo were re-appointed Senior Vice Presidents of the Company, Mr. Qiu Weizhao was appointed Senior Vice President of the Company, Ms. Chen Jie, Ms. Fang Rong, Mr. Zhao Xianming, Mr. Ding Mingfeng, Mr. Pang Shengqing, Mr. Fan Qingfeng, Mr. Zeng Xuezhong, Mr. Xu Huijun, Mr. Yu Yong, Mr. Ye Weimin, Mr. Zhong Hong and Mr. Ni Qin were re-appointed Vice Presidents of the Company, Mr. Wu Zengqi was appointed Vice President of the Company and Mr. Feng Jianxiong was re-appointed Secretary to the Board of Directors of the Company.

If it wants to fulfil its stated goal of taking responsibility for its own peace and security, it needs to use its existing mechanisms at the first sign of trouble and not just rely on an activist chair.

Also in relation to fisheries, my country wishes to highlight its concern about an incipient trend of some States to try to interpret passages in Assembly resolutions as providing for the possibility of regional fisheries management organizations adopting some type of measure with respect to vessels whose flag States neither are members of such organizations nor have expressly consented the application of such measures to their vessels.

Closely linked to fighting international crime is the urgent need to beef up coastal security to combat illicit maritime drug trafficking, illegal fishing and the beginnings of human trafficking and piracy.

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