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up its action in those countries.

(RECs) and to ensure coherence and complementarity in the initiatives taken; (ii) stressed the need to increase coordination among the various actors at the national level and between the national and subregional or regional levels; (iii) called for meetings of Ministers of Education of the RECs to be held in cases, such as in ECOWAS, where they had not been held for a long time, to facilitate the taking of policy decisions required to harmonize education systems, policies and strategies, vectors of regional integration.

of la Francophonie; invited the United Nations system organizations to collaborate with the Secretary-General of la Francophonie by identifying new synergies; invited the Secretary-General of the United Nations to take the steps necessary, in consultation with the Secretary-General of la Francophonie, to continue to promote cooperation between the two Organizations; and requested the Secretary-General to submit to the Assembly at its sixty-seventh session a report on the implementation of the resolution (resolution 65/263).

field, and requested the Committee to submit a report on its work to the General Assembly at its sixty-fifth session.

of a resolution on 12 January 2009, which, inter alia, calls for an immediate cessation of Israeli military attacks and demands the withdrawal of Israeli occupying forces from the Gaza Strip; demands that Israel, the occupying Power, lift the siege imposed on the Gaza Strip and open all border crossings to allow for access and the free movement of humanitarian aid; urges all parties to respect international humanitarian and human rights law and to refrain from violence against the civilian population; and decides to dispatch an urgent international fact-finding mission to investigate all violations of international human rights and humanitarian law by the occupying Power.

(CGPCS), the existing practice in establishing international and mixed tribunals, and the time and resources necessary to achieve and sustain substantive results.

resources for improving ICT support for census operations and economic statistics, and noted the need to assess and report on the results of completed programmes and projects.

consider ways to promote and expand cooperation and coordination with Pacific Islands Forum members and the Forum secretariat; and requested the Secretary-General to submit a report on the implementation of the resolution to the Assembly at its sixty-seventh session (resolution 65/316).

asking the Government to report publicly, accurately and comprehensively how these laws had been implemented and what had been done in relation to various recommendations to improve the protection of civil society space, namely to ensure freedom of expression, assembly, association and the right to participate in public and political life, to adopt a National Plans of Action to improve the human rights situation and to implement some of the recommendations of the Treaty Bodies on freedom of peaceful assembly, to investigate all reports of assaults on human rights defenders and bring to justice those responsible.

towards a coordinated strategy aimed at protecting civilians from the LRA threat and, ultimately, eliminating the group’s capacity to terrorize civilians.

include in her report to the Assembly, at its sixty-sixth session, the principal challenges related to the realization of the human right to safe and clean drinking water and sanitation and their impact on the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (resolution 64/292).

defenders, women, displaced persons, journalists, children, indigenous peoples and Afro-descendants.

a complete and full investigation into the incident”.