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The point was made that these safeguards should be ensured in judicial review proceedings if articles 61 to 65 were not enacted.

This will allow strengthening of provisions for current priorities and new focal issues through the reallocation of the budgetary resources previously earmarked for the crosscutting themes.

However, that increase was primarily due to one bilateral donor source (Japan, which included bilateral loans and credit in its data); without it, the total bilateral ODA would have declined by about 9 per cent.

The Committee also recalls that, upon its accession to the Optional Protocol, the State party entered a reservation with regard to article 5, paragraph 2 (a), of the Optional Protocol indicating that the Committee “shall not have competence to consider a communication from an individual if the same matter is being examined or has already been considered under another procedure of international investigation or settlement”.

We call on the political parties and actors to reject division and intolerance so as to construct a common destiny, one that reflects their deepest aspirations in a united resolve to live together with newfound unity.

The results of the ongoing consultations would be included in the proposed 33 C/5 document that the Director-General would submit to the Executive Board in spring 2005, thus ensuring that the bottom-up approach complemented the top-down approach.

UNMIN has repeatedly pressed for action on both points, before and after the Constituent Assembly elections, and has long warned of serious implications for the hard-won gains of the peace process if the future of the two armies were not addressed promptly.

Secondly, while some genetic resources can be traced to very specific areas and habitats, in other cases they comprise components from many countries, in which case benefit-sharing arrangements will be totally impractical.

[...] [...] place relatively ambitious social safety nets, [...] [...]

For more than 60 years — a painful reminder [...] [...]

The conceptual framework for linking the MDGs and WIPO’s work that is proposed in this report coupled with the enhancements to the RBM framework, especially in the context of the 2012/13 biennium, suggest that there will be better performance data, against which to evaluate the organisation’s work vis-à-vis the MDGs, going forward.

3.11. The full potential of these activities will only be realized when they are linked to a repository system that allows for the exchange of repertoire data at the international level, which can become a key tool for facilitating licensing in the digital marketplace.

[...] 11, of the same resolution, the General Assembly requested the Secretary-General to seek a more effective strategy to fill current and future language post vacancies at all duty stations in a timely manner, took note of paragraph 92 of the report of the Secretary-General on the pattern of conferences (A/63/119 and Corr.1), and also requested the Secretary-General to hold the competitive examinations for the recruitment of language staff referred to in that paragraph, as well as other examinations beyond 2009, well in advance so as to fill current and future language post vacancies at all duty stations in a timely manner, and to inform the Assembly at its sixty-fourth session of efforts in that regard.

This effort is currently being led by a board of directors, comprising representatives of 17 organizations, including international non-governmental organizations and the private sector, and a technical and scientific council that includes the participation of UNEP, the World Tourism Organization and the Rainforest Alliance, the international conservation organization that has provided technical and administrative leadership for the effort since 2001.

Among the recommendations were that UNRWA must: impress upon donors that its core budget was not an administrative black hole but the key to running its educational programmes and thus should be seen as an investment in the future of the Palestine refugees; exploit all funding opportunities; enlarge its donor base for the core budget, to which only a small number currently contributed — a point to which he had drawn attention in Cairo at a meeting of Arab League ministers whose countries gave welcome support to specific projects and emergency appeals but not to the core budget; expand its partnerships with non-State actors such as foundations and other institutions in the private sector; and continue to be cost-effective in conducting its programmes through better planning, implementation and oversight.

[...] [...] competencies required in order to meet the Organization’s future needs, also affected by delays in the current recruitment processes [...] [...]

Expressing deep concern also about the Israeli policy of closures and the imposition of severe restrictions, checkpoints, several of which have been transformed into structures akin to permanent border crossings, and a permit regime, all of which obstruct the freedom of movement of persons and goods, including medical and humanitarian goods, throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and about the consequent violation of the human rights of the Palestinian people and the negative impact on their socio-economic situation, which remains that of a humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip, while taking note of recent developments with regard to the situation of access there

Social assistance is often implemented in the form of cash transfers, food stamps, lower prices for staple foods (for example, for maize flour in Zambia and Kenya), housing subsidies for public sector workers (a practice in Kenya since colonial times) and health-care vouchers (usually provided to expectant mothers, although this practice is still experimental in many of the countries where it has been recently introduced, such as in Kenya, where such vouchers are provided by the German donor agency GTZ).

[...] [...] same for every human being and should not be confused with individual perceptions of honour or pride, which could vary from one person to another.

[...] [...] and a spiritualizing of the Body, as was actually the case after the Resurrection; from this point of view it is true that the [...] [...]

(b) To request the Council of Arab Ministers of Water to expedite completion of the strategy for water security in the Arab region, in order to meet challenges and future requirements for sustainable development, and to submit that strategy to the Economic and Social Council for presentation to the Arab Economic and Social Development Summit.

An observer from a non-governmental organization (NGO) drew the attention of the Working Group to the charter school movement in the United States which, in his view, [...] [...]

Federal Republic of Germany: welcomes the confirmation of applicable international law and this recommendation of provisions which at the time were already regarded as deriving from the concept of protection contained in Article 46 (2) and Article 56 (2) of the Annex to the Hague Convention (IV) Respecting the Laws and Customs of War on Land of 1907 and which were later dealt with more specifically in the 1954 (First) Protocol to the Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict.

[...] [...] international community to take decisive measures to stop these brutalities and grant the people of Palestine the legitimate rights of which they have been deprived for decades.

[...] [...] location of employees, might be important where employees could be future creditors, or less important on the basis that protection of employees is more an issue of protecting the rights of interested parties, is not relevant to the COMI analysis and is, in any event addressed by article [...] [...]

Cuba, which has been the victim of numerous terrorist acts since 1959, most of which have been devised, organized and financed with complete impunity from the territory of the United States, on many occasions by the Government of that country or with its express support, has considerable experience in dealing with this scourge.

[...] [...] by the Israeli authorities for many years on Gaza, which is a form of collective [...] [...]

Courage and leadership is needed at this critical juncture in our region to ultimately end this prolonged tragedy and bring peace and security to the Palestinian and Israeli peoples with the achievement of a lasting, comprehensive peace based on the two-State solution of an independent, sovereign and viable State of Palestine, living side by side in peace and security with Israel on the basis of the 1967 borders, and the achievement of a just solution to the problem of the Palestine refugees in accordance with resolution 194 (III) of 1948.