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Helena, the Turks and Caicos Islands and the United States Virgin Islands (resolutions 64/104 A and B), the dissemination of information on decolonization (resolution 64/105) and the question of Gibraltar (decision 64/521).

and related stories, which are also being highlighted on national websites such as www.seynews.com.

Helena, the Turks and Caicos Islands and the United States Virgin Islands (resolutions 65/115 A and B), the dissemination of information on decolonization (resolution 65/116), the fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples (resolution 65/118), the Third International Decade for the Eradication of Colonialism (resolution 65/119) and the question of Gibraltar (decision 65/521).

Islands and the United States Virgin Islands attended five meetings or workshops, including a subregional meeting on the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, held in Port of Spain on 9 and 10 November 2010; a subregional workshop on the same subject, held in Port of Spain on 11 and 12 November 2010; a meeting on promoting energy efficiency in the Caribbean, held in Port of Spain on 13 and 14 May 2010; the five-year Caribbean regional review meeting on the Mauritius Strategy for the Further Implementation of the Barbados Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States, held in Grenada on 16 and 18 March 2010; and the twenty-third session of the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee, held in Grenada on 15 and 17 March 2010.

of youth poverty through tourism and heritage in the British Virgin Islands, and provided technical support to Montserrat to develop a national policy for a comprehensive response to HIV and AIDS.

Helena, the Turks and Caicos Islands and the United States Virgin Islands (see A/AC.109/2011/SR.8).

to help ensure the progressive improvement of the road network.

Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines).

and Nevis; St. Lucia, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines).

United States Virgin Islands continued to be active participants in the UNESCO climate change and coastal monitoring programme, through which pupils, teachers and local communities work together in the field to monitor their beach environments, identify and evaluate threats, problems and conflicts facing them and develop appropriate sustainable approaches to tackle these issues.

and enhance the delivery of material to students; enhancing the certifications and qualifications of nationals in the financial services industry; ensuring the accountability of the education system through regular reporting and evaluation; enabling monthly grade level meetings with teachers in the schools; revising and implementing the National Curriculum; initiating a youth development programme aimed at motivating and empowering the youth; initiating a television homework help programme; and assisting schools through public-private partnership in education through the Adopt a School Programme.

(1998), Great Britain (2006), Japan (2000), Mauritius (2009), Mexico (2000), Montenegro (2002), New Zealand (2006), Poland (2003), Republic of Korea (2006), Romania (2003), Serbia (2004), Slovenia (2007), South Africa (2000), and United States of America (2005).

Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and the European Convention on Human Rights.

Communications and Works to control and manage the discharge of oil pollutants or hazardous materials in the territorial waters; to provide for the appointment of an oil spill and response administrator; to provide for licensing to operate vessels and facilities; and to provide for offences, penalties and related matters.

Guam, Montserrat, New Caledonia, Pitcairn, Saint Helena, Tokelau, Turks and Caicos Islands, United States Virgin Islands and Western Sahara.

was to maintain its current relationship with the administering Power, built on mutual respect and a mature partnership, as the Territory continues to grow and generations of British Virgin Islanders attain higher levels of education

on the conclusion of the recent internal constitutional modernization exercise, the Territory’s focus was on economic development prior to any search for independence

New Caledonia, Tokelau and the Turks and Caicos Islands.

Caledonia, Pitcairn, Saint Helena, Tokelau, Turks and Caicos Islands, United States Virgin Islands, Western Sahara, Puerto Rico and the Falkland Islands (Malvinas) and of press conferences by the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Argentina and the Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to the United Nations.

developing a national child-abuse prevention, reporting and management protocol; and developing a health and family life education policy.

of the British Virgin Islands, that independence was not a matter regularly discussed among the people of the Territory, as there had been no popular call for such a drastic change in the relationship with the administering Power, and that the policy framework governing the relationship with the administering Power was being reviewed

to the seminar, as well as the participation of experts and civil society representatives, who shared their views on the process of decolonization in the Caribbean region, in particular on the application of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples contained in General Assembly resolution 1514 (XV), and the resolutions and decisions adopted by the Committee on all Caribbean Non-Self-Governing Territories, and the colonial situation in Puerto Rico