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This is an important step forward that can be attributed in large part to the momentum created by the Organization through its numerous advocacy actions, high-level world conferences on education and active engagement in country-level coordination processes.

(f) Other supplies, services and equipment ($10,693,500, or 53.3 per cent): resulting mainly from the deployment of chartered aircraft and vessels to transport equipment, assets and supplies from the United Nations Logistics Base at Brindisi, Italy, and from Miami, Florida, United States of America, to Haiti following the earthquake; the inadvertent recording of expenditures related to special measures for United Nations Volunteers, as well as independent contractors; the replenishment costs of equipment and supplies shipped from the strategic deployment stocks in the United Nations Logistics Base to the Mission after the earthquake; and miscellaneous earthquake-related claims.

At its sixty-fourth session, the General Assembly stressed the need for Member States to emphasize and integrate human resources development into national development strategies, including national development policies and strategies to eradicate poverty and achieve the Millennium Development Goals; and requested the Secretary-General to submit to the Assembly at its sixty-sixth session a report reviewing lessons learned from the global financial and economic crisis on the requirements for human resources development to help countries to prevent and overcome the negative effects of crises and progress towards a more sustainable path of development (resolution 64/218).

This in turn makes it improbable the EU or U.S. would take the domestically difficult step of unilaterally lifting all sanctions.

Of course, the establishment of such a legal regime took a major step forward in 2001 with the adoption of the United Nations Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects, and in 2005 with the adoption of the International Instrument to Enable States to Identify and Trace, in a Timely and Reliable Manner, Illicit Small Arms and Light Weapons.

(a) The Peacebuilding and Statebuilding Goals — which prioritize legitimate politics, people’s security, justice, economic foundations and revenues and fair services — as an important foundation to enable progress towards the Millennium Development Goals to guide our work in fragile and conflict-affected States.

Through our experience over the years, we have come to realize that, even as peace and security may seem a distant dream, if we all abide by the purposes and principles of the United Nations Charter, keep in mind our solemn resolve to combine our efforts to accomplish those aims and strengthen our conviction and cooperation, we will move ever closer to the objective of common security and enduring peace for all humankind.

Demographic trends, globalization, technological advances and the need to move towards a green, eco-efficient economy all call for an ambitious employment strategy over the coming years, which will depend on an improvement of the overall macroeconomic environment and investment in sustainable development.

Thus customers who for whatever reasons want to outsource the sealing system from their production chain, or who would like to take the first steps in using this technology together with us, have access to the entire group knowledge.

As in other agricultural sectors, tobacco is subjected to certification schemes involving good agricultural practices (that require rational use of pesticide, not necessarily prohibit MB use), so moving away from MB is considered a step in the right direction.

The resolution just adopted provided such legal and moral protection, and was a step in the right direction, towards establishing justice, development and peace.

Unfortunately, in parallel with the positive dynamic of movement towards Euro-Atlantic integration, there also continues to be a dynamic of nationalist politics and a readiness by some to challenge the Peace Agreement and, in particular, the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the country.

Recognizing the danger to humanity posed by the possibility of the use of nuclear weapons and the necessity to address increased proliferation risks, to decrease nuclear arsenals, to strengthen nuclear security and to improve nuclear safety, we consider it urgent to reduce nuclear risks and achieve tangible progress on the path towards a world free of nuclear weapons.

This measure has encouraged poppy cultivators in the north of Myanmar and the Lao People’s Democratic Republic to move on to sustainable and legal economic growth through alternative development.

Among the commentators of the whole Mishna the following deserve special mention: Maimonides, the Hebrew translation of whose Arabic original is printed in most edition of the Mishna; Obadia di Bertinoro (d. 1510), Jom Tob Lippmann Heller (d. 1654), Jisrael Lipschutz (his Mishna with Commentary in 6 vols.

In like manner, the Shulḥan 'Aruk of Joseph Caro, which achieved greater practical results than the Mishneh Torah, of Maimonides, owed its authority to the fact that it was recognized as the most convenient codification of the teachings of the Talmud; while the treatises on the philosophy of religion which strove as early as the time of Saadia to harmonize the truths of Judaism with the results of independent thinking referred in all possible cases to the authority of the Talmud, upon which they could easily draw for a confirmation of their theses and arguments.

Mohammed and Ahmad recall how they almost died together in a tunnel collapse.

Mr. Al-Madani put forward some concluding thoughts concerning how to make aid more effective: (a) the need to encourage more initiatives to share knowledge and innovation through development cooperation; (b) the need to help recipient countries to graduate from aid; and (c) the need to realize that helping the poor was a win-win situation.

Indeed, in our discussion today and going forward in New York, I would suggest that we may all need to think hard about how we can help Ahmed Umer to do his job well, along with his counterparts everywhere.

The region had to be more innovative and more catalytic, and should lead by advocacy, build new capacities, and empower people and nations to come together and to advance together.

(a) Sixth session of the United Nations Forum on Forests, 2006: the Executive Director collaborated with major groups at a multi-stakeholder session on the development of an official statement; (b) country-led multi-year programme of work of the United Nations Forum on Forests, “Charting the way forward to 2015”, 2007, Bali, Indonesia; (c) workshop on “International forest policy and the United Nations non-legally binding instrument 2007”, Ottawa: the Executive Director hosted and chaired the meeting to brief indigenous peoples organizations on the United Nations Forum on Forests, the country-led multi-year programme of work and other international forest policy initiatives; (d) seventh session of the United Nations Forum on Forests 2007: the Executive Director facilitated the Forum’s multi-stakeholder process as a major group representative.

The establishment of the Coordinating Council for National Minorities was an important step aimed at ensuring the protection of the national minorities, promoting their inter-community relations and improving the effectiveness of State efforts related to specific educational, cultural, legal and other issues.

We have urged for this conference to mark a turning point towards a more just, more equitable and more sustainable world.

The following members of the Committee participated in the examination of the present communication: Mr Abdelfattah Amor, Mr. Lazhari Bouzid, Ms. Christine Chanet, Mr. Mahjoub El Haiba, Mr. Ahmad Amin Fathalla, Mr. Yuji Iwasawa, Mrs. Hellen Keller, Mr. Rajsoomer Lallah, Ms. Zonke Zanele Majodina, Ms. Iulia Antoanella Motoc, Mr. Michael O’Flaherty, Mr. José Luis Pérez Sanchez-Cerro, Mr. Rafael Rivas Posada, Sir Nigel Rodley, Mr. Fabián Salvioli and Mr. Krister Thelin.

His delegation particularly wished to emphasize the importance of nuclear disarmament and thus its support for the establishment of nuclear-weapon-free zones, which represented a positive step towards the goal of attaining global nuclear disarmament.

Ltd. is pleased to announce the MILLTAP 700, the compact machining center of next generation, which is the first corporate development with German business partner, GILDEMEISTER AG (hereafter, "DMG").

The Legal Subcommittee noted with satisfaction that the adoption of the Safety Framework for Nuclear Power Source Applications in Outer Space (A/AC.105/934) by the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee at its forty-sixth session, in 2009, and the endorsement of the Safety Framework by the Committee at its fifty-second session, in 2009, constituted an important step with regard to the progressive development of international space law and considerably advanced international cooperation in ensuring the safe use of nuclear power sources in outer space.

On 9 January 2007, the Treasury Department also designated Bank Sepah International, a wholly owned subsidiary of Bank Sepah located in London, and Bank Sepah’s chairman and managing director, Ahmad Derakhshandeh, for acting or purporting to act for or on behalf of Bank Sepah.