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resulted in de facto barriers to trade, and created difficulties especially for developing countries; complying with these standards required multiple certification by private bodies, with a high cost for small producers; in many cases private standards were more restrictive and prescriptive than government standards and Codex standards and often had no scientific basis; the process by which private standards were set lacked transparency and inclusiveness; and in some cases such standards did not meet the requirements of the SPS Agreement.

toys from the 19th century) and the old streets full of shops and cafes.

of Moldova being a first time experience for the cultural life of the South-Eastern Europe.

with fresh cream and sweetened apricot, topped with black and white chocolate ring), Memoirs of a Geisha (chiffon cake filled with red bean cream, with finger biscuit on the side), Sunshine (lemon and poppy seed chiffon cake with sweet and sour citrus cream), Million Dollar Truffle Cake (wrapped with 24 carat gold) and Crepe Suzette Cake (layers of French pancake with orange cream).

as a body that assesses human rights capacity-building needs at the state level.

declines in capital flows to the developing world; the pro-cyclical nature of aid; the impact of the crisis on migrant workers and therefore on remittances; the consequent exchange rate devaluation, which has affected domestic production and prices; the impact of extreme volatility in global food prices; and the fiscal constraints in many developing countries that have already led to cutbacks in important public expenditures and social development gains, thereby affecting access to basic services, reversing social development gains and adversely affecting their quality of life.

together about flowers, stars, butterflies, weather, or machines; when you work together to grow a garden or install a bird feeder; or when you share interests in bird watching or rock collecting or enjoy nature in a park.

results: the formulation of strategic lines for integrated recovery and reconstruction developed for Haitian cities affected by the January 2010 earthquake; a multi-donor support programme, assisting 10 pilot developing countries to adopt international guidelines on decentralization and access to basic universal services; a city-to-city cooperation programme providing training, research and capacity development for five countries in Western Africa; and a sustainable urban development strategy for the Arab region, to be launched at the regional conference “Municipal management and urban development for sustainability in Arab cities” to be held in Kuwait in May 2012.

and had requested the Executive Secretary to convene a highlevel intergovernmental meeting “to assess progress against commitments in the Political Declaration on HIV/AIDS and the Millennium Development Goals and efforts to ensure universal access, and identify areas for regional cooperation, in particular in such areas as policy and legal barriers to universal access and promoting dialogue between health and other sectors, including justice, law and order and drug control”.

Conference to serve as a regional intergovernmental forum to ensure ownership by member States of the regional preparatory process for the review of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development in 2014.

the international drug control conventions, in order to ensure that measures better address emerging trends in synthetic drug abuse, control such substances and prevent their trafficking and diversion.

commercial, private and light aircraft to transport illicit drugs.

walls in public housing estates (e.g. Eastern Harbour Crossing Sites Phases 3 and 4), schools (e.g. primary school in Area 65, Tseung Kwan O and secondary school in Area 36, Fanling), other Government buildings (e.g. New Annex Building in Tai Lung Veterinary Laboratory and Tai Hang Tung Flood Pumping Station) etc.