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[...] [...] followed by an intensive awareness-raising campaign on the judgement and a declaration to the effect that child victims of recruitment should not be held legally [...] [...]

Nevertheless, noting the occasionally unequal quality of the proposals received, the Secretariat urges Member States to be more selective and to submit, duly in accordance with the procedure, only proposals of clearly proven universal or regional value and indisputably linked to UNESCO’s programme priorities.

Since the December session, the activities of the Government had been intense, a large part of them being a follow-up to the recommendations made by delegations.

As an effective field presence is a prerequisite to an enhanced programme delivery, the Director-General will continue to make every effort, within the budgetary constraints of the Organization, to narrow, if not fill the remaining gaps in the field network staff establishment, bearing in mind the fact that decentralization should not impinge on the unity of conception and action by UNESCO.

The study suggested that data, on South Atlantic seamounts, especially in terms of biologically significant data, was at best very patchy and of variable quality.

We are also working intensively to continue strengthening bilateral and regional cooperation under the principles of international law, safeguarding due respect for the sovereign jurisdiction of States over their territorial seas, and managing resources in the exclusive economic zone.

In that connection, the consensus was that, although some least developed countries had made good progress, the overall progress in meeting the Goals had been slow and uneven.

Also lined up for the month is the Children for Child Protection Forum, which will bring together some 500 children from states across Malaysia to discuss five of their key protection concerns: bullying, Internet safety, emotional abuse, feeling safe at home and being safe in a relationship.

The most common form of arrhythmia is a "heart palpitation," known as sinus arrhythmia.

Expressing concern that, after the First United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (1997–2006) and six years from the 2015 target date of the Millennium Development Goals, while there has been progress in reducing poverty in some regions, this progress has been uneven and the number of people living in poverty in some countries continues to increase, with women and children constituting the majority of the most affected groups, especially in the least developed countries and particularly in sub-Saharan Africa

[...] [...] sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation, while global [...] [...]

With regard to the ethnic minorities, and given the intensification of military activity in ethnic areas, she asked whether the Special Rapporteur had noted an increase in human rights abuses, in particular with regard to the use of child soldiers and forced labour.

We trust that intensive and urgent efforts [...] [...]

The security and governance gains produced by the Afghan and international military and civilian surges have, as Secretary Clinton put it, created an opportunity to get serious about a responsible reconciliation process led by Afghans and supported by intense regional diplomacy and strong United States backing.

In relation to achieving the Millennium Development Goals, progress in the region is mixed, with success as a whole in achieving a number of indicators, such as reducing gender disparities in primary education, stopping the spread of HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis, achieving progress with regard to biodiversity, reducing the consumption of ozone-depleting substances, and halving the proportion of people without access to safe drinking water, as well as being on track to halving the proportion of people living below the poverty line, ensuring universal access of children to primary school and gender parity in secondary education.

[...] this balance is sometimes disrupted at the level of implementation, which has been uneven [...]

The level of achievement will vary across regions and among individual countries, but it would be a mistake at this review to be defensive or to assign blame for failures if some of the MDG targets are not yet on track to be met by 2015.

The use of “third party” monitoring mechanisms has become widespread, especially among agencies involved in the delivery of food aid, although the effectiveness of such monitoring varies.

It is notable that recent sniper attacks on Azerbaijani civilians, visits by the Armenian high-ranking officials to the occupied territories of Azerbaijan and their hostile statements coincided with the intensification of peace efforts.

More than a year into the planning, the Chamber’s Representative Office made its debut in Shanghai on October 20, poised to serve as a strategic contact point to help corporate members and trade association members develop new business linkages with China.

The rapid sequence of these major events is a good measure of the commitment of the international community to Afghanistan and the Afghan people, and of its interest in seizing the opportunity to consolidate the foundations of security, social and economic development and the regional integration of Afghanistan.

[...] [...] about finding ways of encouraging people to combine [...] [...]

For the purposes of more comprehensive protection, each State is encouraged to take all appropriate measures, in accordance with international law, to cooperate with other States concerned with a view to establishing jurisdiction over, and providing effective criminal sanctions [...] [...]

Beyond this, most indicators of environmental improvement have not demonstrated appreciable convergence with those of economic and social progress; indeed, the overall picture is one of increased divergence, although a few positive developments can be applauded.

Moreover, progress across regions has been uneven, with some regions having surpassed the target set (South Asia, with 67 per cent of intermediate results contributing to gender equality, and West and Central Africa, with 66 per cent) while others, such as CEE/CIS (39 per cent) and Eastern and Southern Africa (41 per cent), require further efforts to meet it.