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We look forward to the successful and peaceful completion

I would appreciate if the present letter and its annex could be

It also expressed disappointment at the outcome document, particularly with regard to the issue of the tools at Council’s disposal to address the most serious, urgent or emerging situations of human rights violations, wherever they occur; increasing the participation of national human rights institutions and non-governmental organizations across the Council work programme, including in the universal periodic review process and better using expertise in panel discussions, briefing sessions and interactive dialogues; holding Council members to the highest standards of promotion and protection of human rights, including

The attention of the Commission is also drawn to paragraph 4 of the annex to Council resolution 1982/50, in which the Secretary-General recommended that: (a) the documentation and programme of work of the subsidiary bodies of the Council and the Assembly be streamlined in order to enable the subsidiary bodies to perform effectively the functions entrusted to them; (b) the

During the debates, participants discussed progress and ongoing challenges facing

As UNESCO emerges from its isolationist past, the Organization needs to broaden and deepen its understanding of development challenges at the country level and

These include, but are not limited to, talented young voices giving expression, through word and image, to their expectations of the Organization and those who lead its Member States; scholars, students and teachers who see in their work a discernible United Nations “impact”; college students who adapt the dynamism of the General Assembly’s possibilities to a “Global Model United Nations” that is entirely their own; non-governmental organizations and individuals who breathe new life into long-debated topics with the vigour of a vaster geographical base and greater opportunities for participation; Governments, research institutions and the media, which seek, and can now find, the recorded positions of Member States on key issues in readily accessible form; and the creative

In that context, there was a need for instituting a new international economic order

Mexico believed that Rio+20 should adopt decisions on the four main aspects of that institutional framework:

Report of the Secretary-General on the situation in Afghanistan and its implications for international peace and security (S/2009/135) ): I should like to inform the Council that I have received letters from the representatives of Afghanistan, Australia, Canada, the Czech Republic, Germany, India, the Islamic Republic of Iran, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway

The General Committee may wish to recommend that the Assembly, when considering item 9 in its entirety in plenary meeting, take note of the clarification that, in implementing resolution 58/316, the relevant parts of chapter I of the report of the Economic and Social Council will be

Numerous important points were raised at this

The Rio Group urges all members of the Conference to demonstrate the political will necessary to ensure the start, without delay, of its substantive work through the adoption and implementation of a balanced and

In the meantime, UNOCI will continue to focus on helping the Ivorian parties to surmount the challenges and minimize the risks identified above, including by: (a) supporting the Ivorian parties and the Facilitator in their efforts to keep the peace process on track; (b) contributing to a secure

The General Committee also took note of paragraph 5 of the annex to resolution 58/316 pertaining to the functions of the Committee, in particular subparagraphs (e) to (h), according to which the Committee shall continue to consider the further biennialization, triennialization, clustering and

At the same session, the General Assembly invited Member States to provide their suggestions in

A set of flagship publications have been planned with regional lens, which include (i) The Arab Region 2025, which will forecast and analyse current and future trends for the region in economic, social, political and cultural areas; (ii) Transitions to Democracy, which looks into the nature of political changes in Arab countries and analyses the lessons learned from political transitions in other areas of the world to draw conclusions and best practices on the policy options available to ensure effective and sustainable transitions to democracy; (iii) Arab Regional Integration, which analyses the potential areas and characteristics of integration be they social, economic, cultural or political and assessing their prospective impact on the long-term development of the region; and

Pursuant to paragraph 3 of Economic and Social Council resolution 1894 (LVII), the Committee will have

In response to decision 2010/3 on the first review, a second review was undertaken (DP/2012/3), where UNDP agreed that it was necessary to carefully and strategically consider programming arrangements in the context of its business model and three concurrent initiatives that inform