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The powers exercised by parliamentarians and officials are based on legal authority and there are minimum standards of justice to which the law must conform.

Ensuring quality education at all levels is a high priority for all countries and minimum requirements therefore should be agreed upon by all governments of the region accompanied by appropriate teacher training.

[...] [...] access to minimum essential levels of water.

[...] [...] reforms – at least the minimum conditions, including [...] [...]

Appropriate measures by the State to facilitate provision will depend on the local context and might include steps to formalize the legal status of settlements, guarantees that people will not be forcibly evicted, the provision of financial assurances, and, in some circumstances, resettlement to an alternative area as long as human rights standards are respected.35 Where the issue of the lack of security of tenure has not yet been resolved, States should at least take measures to ensure that the informal service provision that often prevails in such areas meets minimum human rights standards, as further outlined below, or that innovative solutions to providing formal services are implemented.

Unable as he is to invest in the Courier the additional resources that would give it a chance of attracting a new body of subscribers and hence of having a minimum impact as a magazine aimed at a worldwide readership but with a present circulation of only 150,000 copies, the Director-General will be obliged to halt publication of the UNESCO Courier, as it now appears in tandem with another more recent monthly periodical.

(e) to provide in its territory, where such services do not exist, one or more services [as well as] the minimum procedures necessary for the safeguarding and presentation of the intangible cultural heritage without prejudice to the right of a State Party to adopt additional procedures consistent with its local [own] needs and requirements, and to this end to set minimum standards for the safeguarding of the intangible cultural heritage, as part of a code of conduct to be elaborated for States Parties to observe in their endeavour to attain the objectives and purposes of this Convention

In his recommendations, the Special Rapporteur underlined that, as a matter of fundamental principle, States should fulfil the “minimum core obligation” to ensure the satisfaction of minimum essential levels of primary health care as well as basic shelter and housing for all individuals within their jurisdiction.

[...] [...] restoring a minimum level of respect and [...]

Each of these UN-Women country offices will have at least one P-5 professional and one G-6 support staff member, plus access to enough funds to provide minimal support to national partners in gender situation analyses and planning.

We note that the FAO Guidelines provide a minimum standard of response to the need to improve the conservation and management of deep-sea fisheries, and in this respect should complement and further inform existing efforts and measures adopted by RFMOs, such as the standards already agreed through the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources.

In addition to the cost of the basic technical capacity, a 25 per cent provision for operating costs and a further 25 per cent minimum in “seed” programme funds have been added.

[...] [...] (c) there is a minimum level of political [...]

Existing staff are undertaking this responsibility on an ad hoc basis, which does not meet the minimum level of requirements and is suffering from a lack of consistency.

According to a survey carried out by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in early 2010, 63 per cent of Caribbean small island developing States indicated insufficient financial resources for the implementation of the Strategy, one half had only minimal expertise available, and 57 per cent indicated that only limited support had been received from the international community.

However, that will be possible only if the minimal conditions for mutual trust between the parties are created, including an end to the settlement policy, exchanges of prisoners, a lifting of the Gaza blockade, the opening of crossing points, a halt to rocket firings, and inter-Palestinian reconciliation.

It has attracted some outside funding for its activities and has required minimal actual financial resources from UNESCO other than a modest secretariat and the services of coordinator.

Echoing the press statement issued by the Security Council on 28 December 2008, Mexico calls for the cessation of hostilities and of all military activity in order to address the humanitarian crisis on the ground, including by opening border crossings to ensure the provision of humanitarian supplies — food, fuel and medicines — as well as to generate the minimal necessary conditions to boost peace talks in the region.

It will also need to be able to ensure minimum interoperability between partners, and standards.

In short, the main elements of articles 9 and 14 of the Covenant, namely the right to habeas corpus, the presumption of innocence and minimum fair trial guarantees, as well as the prohibition of unacknowledged detention, must be respected even in times of emergency, including armed conflict.

They prevented the achievement of the most minimal levels of development and the establishment of decent living standards for the Arab population living under Israeli occupation.

The international community’s awareness of the gravity of the recent developments in the occupied Palestinian territories and the resulting consequences for international peace and security should be accompanied by firmer and more effective positions that guarantee the minimum necessary for a relaunch of genuine negotiations that preserve the vital mutual interest of all peoples of the region to live in an environment of peace, security and cooperation.

In that context, one member of the Legal Committee expressed the wish that no distinction should any longer be drawn between draft resolutions with or without budgetary implications and also that no reference to minimal budgetary implications should be included.

One Member State noted that MLA 3 appeared over-ambitious considering the very little funding and staffing support available, and recommended that work in this respect be subsumed into MLAs 1 and 2 where it could achieve critical mass and synergy.

We therefore call upon the parties to return to the negotiating table, on the basis of the guarantees clearly set out by the Quartet for a final settlement based on the 1967 borders and minimal confidence-building measures, including a complete halt to settlement activities, the lifting of the blockade against Gaza and the release of Palestinian political prisoners.

Although overall administration and support of the Support Base will be carried out by the Brindisi campus of UNLB, there is a need to establish a minimal staffing structure at the Valencia to provide common support services to the information and communications technology facility, including logistics and security support services.

Adopting a common set of minimum standards, applied systematically for measuring performance of entities, would facilitate the oversight role of the Economic and Social Council with respect to promoting gender equality and the empowerment of women.

Even if these doubts are shared by others, it must be acknowledged that a set of draft articles such as that proposed by the Commission is not viable without a minimum of definitions, particularly of concepts that determine the subject matter of the draft articles.