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External sources (not reviewed)

Overall, OCHA states that Palestinians are barred access to 85 per cent of the sea areas on which they are entitled to carry out maritime activities and that Palestinian fishermen entering the restricted sea areas are regularly exposed to warning fire by Israeli naval forces and in some cases, directly targeted and that fishing boats are often intercepted by the Israeli military and confiscated.

The soldiers also fired warning shots in the air to disperse the Palestinians, as well as several tear gas canisters and finally used their batons against some Palestinians to force them to leave their own land.

At 0900 hours, an armed terrorist group deployed in the streets of Hujjah and compelled people at gunpoint to open their places of business, threatening them with death and firing in the air to terrify the population.

Second, the Panel documented small arms ammunition that CRP fired in warning shots when a UNAMID convoy passed its position after sunset without prior notification in Northern Darfur in April 2010.

South-South cooperation is a common endeavour of peoples and countries of the South, born out of shared experiences and sympathies, based on their common objectives and solidarity, and guided by, inter alia, the principles of respect for national sovereignty and ownership, free from any conditionalities.

The colors of the skies and sunsets in the arid deserts of the Middle East and Africa, where I traveled when I was young, the humid airs of Asia, the heavy, low-hanging clouds of Scandinavia, those sweltering summer afternoon scenes of my childhood when all was quiet save for the chirping of the cicadas, and then the soaring skies of autumn – all the images of these many reminiscences have become layered, and have remained within me as blue memory.

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.

This wide-ranging and important part of the report on the IEE gave rise to a broad agreement that the selection of a limited number of strategic objectives would help increase UNESCO’s focus and that, in order to reach this objective, specific criteria should be established for the overall preparation of the C/5 document, including the assessment of capacity to deliver and impact, comparative advantage, as well as exit strategies, sunset provisions and a global, ongoing culture of evaluation.