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The Legal Committee did however consider that the drafting of certain articles could be improved so as to make them more precise and/or to comply with the usual rules of treaty law.

The expression “may, however, be included” reflects the optional nature of this divergent practice, whereas the final qualification “if no contracting State or contracting organization is opposed in a particular case” safeguards the application of the principle established in paragraph 1 should any one contracting State or contracting organization be opposed to that inclusion.

(b) Development of a World Heritage Education programme, the target group of which are 12-16 years old students, within the framework of the UNESCO Special Project “Young People’s Participation in World Heritage Preservation and Promotion”, through workshops diffusing already available materials: the practical manual Introducing Young People to Heritage Site Management and Protection (adapting an activity initiated in 2002 in Petra by UNESCO and ICCROM to the case of Jerusalem) and the World Heritage in Young Hands Kit in Jerusalem secondary schools.

Two of the 4 general temporary assistance positions, 1 P-4 and 1 P-3 Training Officers, and 1 P-4 continuing post, currently funded from the support account, design, deliver, upgrade, harmonize and evaluate three ongoing cross-cutting leadership programmes: the senior mission leaders’ programme, a two-week course, conducted twice annually at a host Member State, for 26 candidates from Member States, the Secretariat, the United Nations agencies, programmes and funds); the senior leaders’ programme, a compulsory orientation course for all mission personnel at the D-2 level and above, conducted twice annually in New York; and SMART, an intensive year-long programme involving distance learning and three week-long workshops for two groups of 40 candidates.

[...] [...] organizing workshops, seminars [...] [...]

Building on the introduction of ICTs within national education policies, as well as outcomes of ongoing ICT-based applications in education and literacy developed during Phase I of the project, the first subregional workshop on ICTs and literacy, organized with the UNESCO New Delhi Office, was held with government officials from India and Bangladesh, NGOs, and software engineering firms to define a plan of action.

Similarly, the formulation “relations between States under a treaty”, found in article 1, is drawn from article 2, subparagraph (c), of the Vienna Convention, and places the focus on the relations existing under the treaty regime in question, thereby making it possible to distinguish the treaty relations between States, which are included within the scope of the draft articles, from the relations between States and international organization or between international organizations arising under the same treaty, which are excluded from the scope of the articles.

[...] [...] reflected in the wording of priorities [...] [...]

An amount of $68,800 is proposed for travel in connection with the following seminars/conferences/workshops: partnership work with the UNEP post-conflict branch to be extended to field operations; annual conference to address existing issues of contract management, performance and resolution agreement with contractors on overcoming shortfalls with respect to rations; eleventh annual plenary meeting of the United Nations Geographic Information Working Group, which focuses on GIS data sharing and technology exchange as well as development of the United Nations spatial data infrastructure; annual NATO Partnership for Peace geospatial conference for the exchange of GIS data and applications; and coordination meetings with NATO, the European Union Satellite Centre and the European Commission Joint Research Centre.