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The Lead IA, along with the cooperating IA will also undertake the challenging task of monitoring illegal ODS imports and exports, and advising the appropriate national agencies through the NOU.

Also, he wondered what it would take to make a real impact on the recurrent cycle of underfunding, which added fear of the possible loss of the Agency’s essential services to the pain of the daily living conditions of the Palestine refugees; and how Member States could collectively deal with the ongoing financial problems experienced by UNRWA.

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We greatly enjoyed ourtask and the opportunity to learn from one another and, in particular, from the many who have contributed to our work.

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At the same time, Tuvalu and other small island developing States have struggled with the loss of customs revenues, which used to fund vital education and health services.

The Commission recommended to the General Assembly: (a) that the designation of nonfamily duty stations be harmonized across the United Nations common system; (b) that conditions of service for staff serving in non-family duty stations be harmonized across the United Nations common system, by amending the existing hardship scheme to include a consideration for service in non-family duty stations; and (c) that the provisions governing rest and recuperation be harmonized across the common system by adopting a common rest and recuperation framework.

In tough times, it is too easy for politicians to blame the foreigner for the nation’s ills, shutting foreign products out of the market and slashing foreign-aid budgets.

To cushion vulnerable families from the harsh economic conditions and the impact of HIV/AIDS, the government of Lesotho together with UNICEF and the European Union is currently offering support in the form of cash grants.

While some refugees indeed succeed in improving their lot by such movement, the situation awaiting those who move to cities is, however, frequently harsh and unwelcoming, and the search for solutions often elusive.

This in turn makes it improbable the EU or U.S. would take the domestically difficult step of unilaterally lifting all sanctions.

The Commission highlighted climate change as an enormous challenge for the region in achieving sustained economic growth in terms of enhancing food and water security, managing forests and agricultural productivity, resilience to disasters, and the development of mountains as well as coastal areas, and thus overshadowing the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals in the region.

Gravely concerned about the extremely difficult living conditions being faced by the Palestine refugees in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, particularlyin the refugee camps in the Gaza Strip, as a result of the continuing prolonged Israeli closures and severe economic and movement restrictions that in effect amount to a blockade and the militar y operations in the Gaza Strip between December 2008 and January 2009, which caused extensive loss of life and injur y, particularly among Palestinian civilians, including children and women; widespread damage and destruction to Palestinian homes, properties, vital infrastructure and public institutions, including hospitals, schools and United Nations facilities; and internal displacement of civilians

(o) In granting the request, the Meeting noted that, while it may be unfortunate that after almost ten years since entry into force a State Party is unable to account for what remains to be done, it is positive that such a State Party, as is the case of the DRC, intends to take steps to garner an understanding of the true remaining extent of the challenge and to develop plans accordingly that precisely project the amount of time that will be required to complete Article 5 implementation.

Thetask will be daunting, partly because of the massive investments locked into brown energy technology and its interdependencies with the broader economic system; and partly because, as present knowledge suggests, there may be technical limits to the massive scaling up of renewable energy technologies (such as wind and solar power), given present conversion efficiency as well as the limits to deployment of those technologies and improvements in their energy-use efficiency.

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The hard work had just begun, however, as all parties were now charged with carrying out the commitments made.

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Pacific island countries face formidable challenges in the pursuit of sustainable development: adequate human capacity for governance and development; developing and maintaining cost-effective infrastructure; establishing a viable economic development base; promoting foreign investment; energy security; protecting biodiversity and shared resources; addressing social problems related to gender, youth and health effectively; population and urbanization growth; and reducing the risks associated with disasters and impacts of global crises.

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In Guinea-Bissau, as everywhere else, peacebuilding will succeed if society and its leaders so wish and if, as a country, they are ready to make the difficultdecisions needed to consolidate stability and lay the foundations for prosperity.

(1) Labour of persons that have not reached 18 years is prohibited if it involves hard, harmful and/or dangerous working conditions, underground work, as well as works that may cause damage to health or moral integrity of minors (gambling, work in night clubs, production, transport and sale of alcoholic drinks, of tobacco products, of narcotic and toxic products).

Draft resolution A/C.4/64/L.13 on the operations of UNRWA gave a comprehensive picture of the work the Agency was doing under extreme and dangerous conditions; he drew particular attention to the preambular paragraphs detailing the harsh life of the refugees in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and the destruction and obstruction caused by the Israeli occupying forces, highlighting also paragraphs 1, 2, 16 to 18, 22 and 23.

Lubrizol’s corporate assets include its facilities, equipment, materials, intellectual property, confidential and proprietary information and other assets that have been acquired through the hard work and investment of many stakeholders in Lubrizol’s success.

Cases have been registered when persons younger than 18 years are employed in hard physical work, use equipment that does not correspond to the necessary safety requirements (Table No. 13 from Annex No. 1).

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