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The LED-based LCD screen offers razor-sharp images deep enough to walk into.

[...] fjords – deep indentations in the coastline [...]

At its sixty-fifth session, the General Assembly welcomed the commitment by Pacific Islands Forum leaders and the Secretary-General to enhanced high-level dialogue between the members of the Pacific Islands Forum and the United Nations; invited the Secretary-General to consider ways to promote and expand cooperation and coordination with Pacific Islands Forum members and the Forum secretariat; and requested the Secretary-General to submit a report on the implementation of the resolution to the Assembly at its sixty-seventh session (resolution 65/316).

He wore a trademark red woollen cap and his expeditions gave human beings their first collective view of the depths of the underwater world.

UNESCO also needs to intensify its response to other priorities: capacity-building in science and technology, the promotion and management of renewable sources of energy, the elaboration of sustainable development strategies for the small island states (of particular importance for the Caribbean) and the popularization of science.

They cover controls of hand held percussion breakers; increases in penalties and improvements in the procedure for abatement notices to air pollution offences; controls on the use of asbestos; controls on the use and maintenance of waste treatment plants, provision to direct property owners to discharge wastes into public sewers; for a system of charging for treating of industrial effluent to specified quality and regulations to control the disposal of chemical waste and charge for it.

You feel it and are sustained by its profound and amazing grace—to contribute to the creation of an enlightened planetary civilization.

Decision on a proposed revision of the Financial Rules The Chairman began by thanking the High Commissioner and the Acting President of Tunisia, His Excellency M. Fouad Mebazaa, for their thoughtful and stimulating presentations.

The concert features Mozart’s Requiem, the composer’s final and valedictory masterpiece and his profound search for meaning and solace in the face of mortality.

The Commission was informed of initiatives that were being undertaken by Pacific island developing countries to protect biodiversity and the maintenance of ecosystem services, such as the Phoenix Islands Protected Area in Kiribati, the largest marine protected area in the Pacific Ocean, and the Coral Triangle Initiative, which covered a number of countries in the Asia-Pacific region, included the greatest extent of mangrove forests in the world and provided a critical spawning and juvenile growth area for tuna and other globally significant fish species.

At its sixty-sixth session, the General Assembly stressed the importance of the continued substantive consideration of the follow-up to and implementation of the Mauritius Strategy for the Further Implementation of the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States and decided to consider at its sixty-seventh session the reports of the Secretary-General on concrete recommendations to enhance the implementation of the Barbados Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States and the Mauritius Strategy for the Further Implementation of the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States (A/66/278) and on the review of United Nations system support to small island developing States (A/66/218), issued for the sixty-sixth session (resolution 66/198).

Special procedures were considered to have important insights to contribute, and it was agreed that a note would be prepared at the session in consultation with the Coordination Committee and circulated to all resident coordinators.