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Competition authorities should be the “firemen” of the economic policy during times of recession.

Elsewhere in Europe the proponents of the patent system also largely won the argument, just as the free trade movement waned in the face of the Great Depression in Europe.

In the Medical Services Section, the establishment of 15 additional national posts (6 National Officers and 9 national General Service staff) is proposed, as the Section has over the past years expanded the services it provides, which include round-the-clock operation of the UNOCI headquarters clinic, which is now functioning at level I-plus rather than the previous level I; patients are followed up at their homes after discharge from level III hospitals; patients are regularly visited in the 11 level III hospitals in Abidjan and in Sector West and Sector East; doctors in the regional headquarters perform outreach activity by visiting remote offices twice a week; support is provided to the Government during important functions and to the United Nations country team as part of the United Nations integrated framework; and medical support is proposed to be provided eight hours a day at the logistics base in Koumassi as opposed to the current two hours a day.

In Latin America, artisanal and small-scale mining usually occurs in fragile ecosystems that are frequently characterized by a depressed, primary and underdeveloped economy, by class and “caste” social structure, and by cultural and biological diversity.

These 12 posts comprise one P-2 post of Associate Economic Affairs Officer under executive direction and management; one P-2 post under subprogramme 1, Linkages with the global economy, regional integration and cooperation; one P-2 post under subprogramme 2, Production and innovation; one P-2 post under subprogramme 3, Macroeconomic policies and growth; one P-2 post under subprogramme 5, Social development and equality; one P-2 post under subprogramme 12, Subregional activities in Mexico and Central America; one Local level post under subprogramme 13, Subregional activities in the Caribbean; and one P-4 temporary post, one P-2 post and three Local level posts under programme support.

The Commission was informed of initiatives that were being undertaken by Pacific island developing countries to protect biodiversity and the maintenance of ecosystem services, such as the Phoenix Islands Protected Area in Kiribati, the largest marine protected area in the Pacific Ocean, and the Coral Triangle Initiative, which covered a number of countries in the Asia-Pacific region, included the greatest extent of mangrove forests in the world and provided a critical spawning and juvenile growth area for tuna and other globally significant fish species.

For the first time in the history of the world economy, most developing countries continued to grow while many developed countries fell into what some analysts have dubbed the “great recession”.

Bearing in mind the worst financial and economic crises since the Great Depression, which still remain, and recognizing their continuing severe impact on developing countries, particularly the least developed, and also being deeply worried about additional negative impacts as part of the second wave of the crisis, which is happening now but also poses a serious threat to developing countries for years to come, we recommend holding a follow-up conference on the financial and economic crises and its impact on development in 2012.

In reality, Si-Ya-U is no one other than revolutionary poet and Mao Zedong’s high school classmate Emi Siao (Xiāo Sān, also called Emi Xiao, 1896—1983).

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During this session, the SHS and SC Commissions examined the resolution proposed in document 35 C/COM SC/DR.1 (submitted by: Austria, Belgium, Plurinational State of Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Congo, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominican Republic, Finland, Iceland, Libya, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Madagascar, New Zealand, Netherlands, Norway, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Poland, Portugal, Samoa, Senegal, Slovenia, Sweden, Tuvalu, Uruguay; co-sponsored by: Barbados, Costa Rica, Germany, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lebanon, Malaysia, Monaco, Pakistan, Solomon Islands, Suriname, and Zambia), requesting the Director-General to strengthen UNESCO’s specialized capacity on climate change, building upon UNESCO’s unique interdisciplinary profile.

These mechanisms would include coordinated countercyclical policies to mitigate boom-bust cycles, as well as financial regulatory coordination to minimize and contain economic and financial crises and financial volatility.

Even in Latvia, which has been the hardest hit economy in the region, the economic decline, which is forecast to be about minus 27 per cent of GDP over the period 2007-2010 is only about one half of what it experienced during the 1990s; nevertheless its economic decline has been large as it is roughly similar to the economic decline experienced by the United States during the Great Depression of the 1930s (which was -29 per cent).

Major transport infrastructures such as the Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport and Hangzhou Central Railway Station, as well as amenities such as the Hangzhou International School and the city's signature attraction, the West Lake, are in close proximity to Oakwood.

The average daily value of concentration and PH value of SS, COD, BOD5, oil, total phosphorus and fluoride in the general emission outlet all conform to the Grade III standard in Comprehensive Emission Standard for Waste Water (GB8978-1996).