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means of financing, the ISU will have to drastically reduce its service offerings, which no doubt would adversely affect the implementation process.

coordinator system, taking into account the coordinated follow-up to United Nations major international conferences; and invited the Chair of the Committee on World Food Security to report, as part of the Committee’s report to the General Assembly at its sixty-fifth session, through the Economic and Social Council, on the implementation of the reform of and on progress made towards achieving the vision of the Committee (resolution 64/224).

Conference on Population and Development, the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families, the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing, the World Programme of Action on Youth, and the United Nations Millennium Declaration as well as the commitments adopted at the High-level Plenary Meeting of the General Assembly in 2010 and the Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS: Intensifying our Efforts to Eliminate HIV and AIDS.

that we will advance the human, economic, social and technological development of our Arab societies and will activate and develop our joint Arab action mechanisms, under the aegis of the League of Arab States, with a view to ensuring a better future for our peoples and for future generations.

Peru, the Russian Federation, Sierra Leone, the Syrian Arab Republic, Tunisia, Uruguay (on behalf of the States members of the Southern Common Market (MERCOSUR) and associated States) and Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) also made statements on the question of the Falkland Islands (Malvinas).

gathered at the Unity Summit held in Mexico on 22 and 23 February 2010; rejected the military activities of the United Kingdom in the Islands, which ran counter to the region’s policy of seeking a solution to the dispute through peaceful means; and also recalled the declaration on that matter that had been adopted in Santiago in October 2010 (see A/C.4/66/SR.2).

International Conference on Population and Development, the key actions for its further implementation and the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS (Commission resolution 2004/1).

II, Tunis) and within the framework of the Information for All Programme (IFAP) and its three strategic priorities – information literacy, information ethics and information preservation – by consolidating its operational functions through the implementation of concrete activities.

of Justice; the goal of eliminating nuclear weapons within a specified framework of time; the role and work of the Conference on Disarmament, including the establishment of an ad hoc committee on nuclear disarmament in the Conference as a high priority; as well as the call to convene an international conference on nuclear disarmament in all its aspects at an early date to identify and deal with concrete measures of nuclear disarmament.

key issues: the rapid growth in mobile telephony since 2005 and the advent of new services and applications, including m-health, mobile transactions, e-government, e-business and developmental services, provide great potential to the development of the information society, while at the same time, many developing countries lack affordable access to information and communications technologies (ICTs), and for the majority of the poor, the promise of science and technology, including ICTs, remains unfulfilled.

in the work of the Commission on Science and Technology for Development at its twelfth and thirteenth sessions, and invited the Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations to consider, as expeditiously as possible, the applications of such entities in accordance with the rules of procedure of the Economic and Social Council.

Development Goals (“Millennium Development Goals Summit”), in September 2010; (c) identify and elaborate on key strategic shifts in the MTSP; and (d) present results in each focus area, based on lessons learned, analysis of progress and recent developments, and a review of management issues.

of the provisions of the Convention and reflect increased understanding of effective means to implement the Convention.

(A/CONF/177/20/Rev.1), the outcomes of the Conference and of the twentythird special session of the General Assembly, and the Declaration of the fortyninth session of the Commission on the Status of Women on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women (E/CN.6/2005/11).

of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction, while inspired by their collective achievements, expressed their will to strengthen their efforts to overcome remaining challenges.

Movement, held in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, in July 2009, in which the States members of the Movement decided to oppose unilateralism and unilaterally-imposed measures by certain States, which can lead to the erosion and violation of the Charter and international law, the use and threat of use of force and pressure and coercive measures as a means to achieving their national policy objectives, and to support, in accordance with international law, the claim of affected States, including targeted States, to compensation for damage incurred as a consequence of the implementation of extraterritorial or unilateral coercive measures or laws

by the Minister had been submitted for the representatives of the following 58 States participating in the eighteenth session of the Assembly: Argentina, Australia, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Cameroon, Canada, Chile, China, Côte d’Ivoire, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Fiji, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Guyana, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Kiribati, Kuwait, Mauritius, Mexico, Micronesia (Federated States of), Monaco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nauru, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Oman, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Republic of Korea, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Spain, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and Viet Nam.

to consider under the item the chapters of the annual report of the Economic and Social Council relevant to the integrated and coordinated implementation of and follow-up to the outcomes of the major United Nations conferences and summits, including through the participation in its discussions of the President of the Council.

of political or economic pressure, and reaffirming in this regard the importance of international cooperation and solidarity, as well as the necessity of refraining from unilateral measures that are not in accordance with international law and the Charter of the United Nations and that endanger food security

and inclusive global economic growth, especially in the developing countries; find an immediate and sustainable solution to the environmental problems; translate resolutions, declarations and plans into concrete implementable actions; and improve the current sustainable development institutional framework in order to promote the integration of the three pillars of sustainable development.