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Many developing States were unable to put in place coherent national strategies because of their international obligations.

[...] 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.

[...] [...] decisions, and that reporting on staff missions was necessary in the interests of accountability.

[...] vessels to fish with baited hooks and lines rather than nets to [...] [...]

Many Member States called for a continuation of the mainstreaming approach of the 32 C/5 in the 33 C/5 as well, emphasizing however the need for more focused activities, particularly in favour of women and youth in LDCs, as well as for closer linkages with other United Nations agencies, MDGs and UNESCO’s own strategic objectives.

[...] [...] directly, by providing fish for people, especially low-income consumers, to eat, thereby improving both food [...] [...]

While bottom-set longlines may snag and damage benthic epifauna and irregular objects on the bottom, longline fisheries do offer the potential to conduct fishing without severe [...] [...]

The Secretariat launched the two reviews not only in response to the queries raised by regional groups, but also in an effort to take a more coherent and rational approach to relations with NGOs, inspired by the example of other United Nations system organizations, notably the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

In follow-up to the recommendations of the Working [...] [...]

[...] [...] adapted solely to discharge a spear for spearing fish.

Life-cycle rituals – birth; rites of passage; wedding, divorce and funerary rituals; games and sports; kinship and ritual kinship ceremonies; settlement patterns; culinary arts; designation of status and prestige ceremonies; seasonal ceremonies; gender-specific social practices; practices relating to hunting, fishing and gathering; geonymic [...] [...]

[...] [...] to monitor the contribution of fisheries and aquaculture to food security and other socio-economic factors, not for the assessment of stock status and fisheries management.

[...] located elsewhere, whereas salmon habitat must [...]

These include the independent study commissioned by the Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) and the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs; the operational concept and the lessons learned note circulated by DPKO; and the regular inclusion of protection of civilians tasks in the mandates of United Nations peacekeeping operations; the more consistent and systemic consideration of protection of civilians issues in the Secretary-General’s reports; the significant inclusion of several paragraphs on the protection of civilians in the 2010 recommendations of the Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations (see A/64/19), including the development of a strategic framework for mission-wide protection strategies; the elaboration of protection of civilians training modules; and an assessment of the resource requirements for implementing protection mandates.

[...] Doraemon if mermaids exist while Gian says First a Kappa now a mermaid?

He invited the Commission to provide future-oriented indications in particular regarding the principal and other priorities of the different programmes, their interrelationship with the strategic objectives of the Medium-Term Strategy, the ways and means of ensuring enhanced transdisciplinarity and intersectorality, the mainstreaming of needs of Africa, the least developed countries, women and youth.

He pointed out that document 31 C/4, built around a single unifying theme, responded to the Director-General’s aim to concentrate, focus and set priorities and to make the Organization a proactive partner in the framework of international cooperation.

Though this strategy constitutes a useful reference tool, various partners within the EFA movement have not demonstrated the will to follow through on it.

The strategic direction of the subprogramme is imbedded in the internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals, the Doha Outcome Document on Financing for Development, the outcome of the United Nations Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis and Its Impact on Development, the outcome of the forthcoming Fourth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries, in 2011, and Commission resolutions 62/1, 63/4, and 64/6 on achieving the Millennium Development Goals in the ESCAP region, 64/7 on financing for the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals by 2015 in the ESCAP region, 65/1 on implementation of the Bali Outcome Document in addressing the food, fuel and financial crises, and 65/4 on strengthening of the Centre for Alleviation of Poverty through Secondary Crops Development in Asia and the Pacific.

Following the above resolution, the JIU proposed a follow-up system in a document entitled “Towards a more effective system of follow-up on reports of the Joint Inspection Unit”, which was included as an annex to its annual report of 1997 (A/52/34).

[...] [...] vary, and many benthic fish species also frequent [...]

[...] [...] trout and salmon, whereas smaller fish-eating [...] [...]

[...] [...] which permitted fishing entities to participate in the work of IATTC without being a member.

[...] [...] and management of sharks, and noting with [...] [...]

[...] data on toxicity to fish and migrating birds (but not to humans), [...] [...]

Another key focus of the work of the Advisory Committee during the period under review had been to provide guidance on the implementation of the 15 resolutions adopted by the Commission at its sixty-seventh session.

The follow-up system proposed therein emphasized: (a) that the reports should be given active and serious consideration by the legislative organs of the participating organizations; and (b) that there should be expeditious implementation of the approved/accepted recommendations, with full reporting on the implementation measures and analysis of the resulting impact.

This should be a global platform for bilateral donors, recipients, multilateral and regional organizations and non-governmental organizations to maximize efforts, coherently inform policy and consistently improve practice.