The Commission adopted resolution 68/3 on enabling paperless trade and the cross-border recognition of electronic data and documents for inclusive and sustainable intraregional trade facilitation.

To prevent cross-contamination of the equipment’s wetted parts, never interchange component A (isocyanate) and component B (resin) parts.

Two of the 4 general temporary assistance positions, 1 P-4 and 1 P-3 Training Officers, and 1 P-4 continuing post, currently funded from the support account, design, deliver, upgrade, harmonize and evaluate three ongoing cross-cutting leadership programmes: the senior mission leaders’ programme, a two-week course, conducted twice annually at a host Member State, for 26 candidates from Member States, the Secretariat, the United Nations agencies, programmes and funds); the senior leaders’ programme, a compulsory orientation course for all mission personnel at the D-2 level and above, conducted twice annually in New York; and SMART, an intensive year-long programme involving distance learning and three week-long workshops for two groups of 40 candidates.

The provision would provide for specialized expertise not available in the Organization, outside the scope of the systems integration contract, in the area of change management, in technical areas, including mobile technology, report design and implementation, data warehousing and business intelligence, and in functional areas, including travel, central services, field operations and logistics, payroll, budgeting and planning, as well as management consultants to cross-check the project management services provided by the main contractor/systems integrator.

At its fifth and sixth meetings on 6 October 2005, the Commission examined the following five items: 8.1 “Draft international convention against doping in sport”, 5.3 “Implementation of 32 C/Resolution 54 concerning educational and cultural institutions in the occupied Arab territories”, 5.24 “Proposed establishment of the International Centre for Girls’ and Women’s Education in Africa (CIEFFA) under the auspices of UNESCO, in Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso)”, 5.8 “Cooperation between UNESCO and OECD in drafting guidelines on ‘Quality Provision in Cross-Border Higher Education’”, and 5.23 “Preliminary report on the desirability and scope of an international charter on traditional games and sports”.

The Commission noted the efforts of some countries to facilitate international transport and enhance regional connectivity by (a) setting up integrated check posts and terminals at land borders, (b) undertaking subregional coordination to identify projects for unrestricted cross-border movement of goods, people and services, (c) providing favourable conditions and facilities for transit traffic, (d) acceding to international transport facilitation conventions and (e) concluding bilateral transport agreements.

Given the regional dimension of the conflict, I reiterate the recommendation in my report on the situation of children and armed conflict in Chad (S/2008/532) that the respective United Nations country teams in the Sudan, Chad and the Central African Republic, as well as UNAMID, UNMIS, the United Nations Mission in the Central African Republic and Chad (MINURCAT) and the United Nations Peacebuilding Support Office in the Central African Republic (BONUCA) peacekeeping and political missions, dedicate the required resources to ensure that mechanisms are in place for information exchange and cooperation on cross-border child protection concerns such as the recruitment, release and reintegration of children.

In addition, the pace of the change will be affected by government policies in the areas of international trade and cross-border investments.

Looking to the future, the community’s efforts in this area will be focused on finalizing the legal instrument and its adoption by member States; boosting the active participation of national commissions on small arms and light weapons; implementing the border programme, especially in the area of cross-border security; drawing up and implementing a police cooperation mechanism to address the issue of the six lawless zones; operationalizing the Gulf of Guinea securitization strategy in coordination with the Economic Community of West African States and, of course, with our international partners; implementing the policy of security sector reform in order to ensure that State armaments are traceable; providing support of all types to ensure the success of disarmament, demobilization and reintegration processes at rates of around 90 per cent by 2015; and strengthening civil society organizations with regard to information, awareness-raising and social networking.

There also needs to be cross-sectoral policy coherence, so that, for example, agricultural policies do not have an adverse impact on sustainable forest management.

The compilation of State proposals contained: part one “Concrete proposals” on the Universal Periodic Review, the Special Procedures, the Human Rights Council Advisory Committee and the Complaint Procedure, the Agenda and Framework for a Programme of work and the Council’s Methods of work and Rules of Procedure; part two “Cross-cutting and other proposals”; and part three “Other issues on which differences exist as to whether they fall within the purview of the review in Geneva and require further determination on which the President will consult with States.

This form of construction is carried out in existing or formed land to provide the necessary construction access from the surface – should the tunnel alignment cross over seabed, reclamation will be required to first form the land through which the diaphragm walls need to be constructed.

Progress in proteomics has included: better understanding of how proteins are synthesized; fluctuations in their presence over time; better characterization of the system which ensures the premature termination of sequences that fail quality control; new tools to assist in the identification and quantification of proteins; increasing standardization of data reporting; improved tools for determining the structure of proteins; enhanced understandings of protein-protein interactions, such as through mapping, regulation, cross network comparisons and studying protein signalling cascades.

United Nations specialized agencies, departments, funds and programmes, African Union, Council of Europe, East African Community, Economic Community of Central African States, Economic Community of West African States, European Union, Executive Secretariat of the Commonwealth of Independent States, Intergovernmental Authority on Development, International Centre for Migration Policy Development, International Committee of the Red Cross, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, International Organization for Migration, League of Arab States, Organization of Eastern Caribbean States, International Organization of “la Francophonie”, Organization of Islamic Cooperation, Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, Southern African Development Community and Sovereign Military Order of Malta.

The key results areas of the Social Contract are anti-corruption and good governance; poverty alleviation and empowerment of the poor; achieving inclusive economic growth; building just and lasting peace and promoting the rule of law; and protecting the environment, with gender equality as a cross-cutting concern.

Other entities represented included: Asian Disaster Preparedness Center; Asian Disaster Reduction and Response Network; Asian Institute of Technology; Asian Reinsurance Corporation; Directorate-General for Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection (European Commission); International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies; International Committee on the International Global Monitoring Aerospace System Project Implementation; International Organization for Standardization; Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency; Pacific Islands Telecommunications Association (PITA) and Remote Sensing Technology Centre of Japan.

The Committee reiterated that nutrition was both an important cross-cutting issue requiring mainstreaming, as well as a strong hub to ensure visibility and leadership of FAO in the field of nutrition.

Article 1, paragraph 1, outlines the types of issue that may arise in cases of cross-border insolvency and for which the Model Law provides solutions: (a) inward-bound requests for recognition of a foreign proceeding; (b) outwardbound requests from a court or [insolvency] representative in the enacting State for recognition of an insolvency proceeding commenced under the laws of the enacting State; (c) coordination of proceedings taking place concurrently in two or more States; and (d) participation of foreign creditors in insolvency proceedings taking place in the enacting State.

The Observer especially drew the attention of the Commission to the resolution on the OIV standard on minimum maturity requirements for table grapes which cross referenced the Codex Standard on Table Grapes adopted at the last session of the Commission and other food safety related work on additives, contaminants and pesticides.

The Observer from OIE drew the attention of the Commission to the fact that OIE had recently adopted a standard on antimicrobial resistance and proposed to cross reference this standard and work in complementary way in order to avoid duplication and conflict between the standards developed by the relevant organisations referenced under the WTO SPS Agreement.

The expert group will coordinate with other expert groups to address overlapping or cross-cutting issues and could decide to hold some of its meetings jointly with the other expert groups to address such matters, as agreed by the Working Group at the forty-ninth session of the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee in February 2012 (A/AC.105/1001, annex IV, para. 16).

After the discussion, Mr Rene Varas, Consultant at the UNESCO Office in Santiago and Executive Secretary of the National Forum for Quality Education for All, spoke via videoconference and briefly introduced the work of NGOs in Chile in combating discrimination against immigrants from Peru, often very poor, who crossed the border to Chile either legally or illegally to undertake cheap labour jobs and send money back home to their families in Peru.

Before eCA issues cross-certificate for CA outside of the ePKI, the Policy Management Committee and the CA should consult to decide whether to recognize the cross-certificate issued by the CA to the other CA.

The Joint Legal Task Force was constituted pursuant to the Commission’s request that the Secretariat should engage actively with the World Customs Organization (WCO) and the United Nations Centre for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business (UN/CEFACT), and with the involvement of experts, in the study of the legal aspects involved in implementing a cross-border single window facility with a view to formulating a comprehensive international reference document on legal aspects of creating and managing a single window (A/CN.9/678, paras. 6-12).

Mitigation strategies would include ensuring that new team members are multi-skilled; seeking public or private sector partnerships; and strengthening internal communication and consultation to leverage cross-sectoral engagement.

The success of the monitoring programme will be based on well designed forms for data collection, evaluation and reporting; regular programme of monitoring visits; and appropriate cross-checking of information from different sources.

The following six actions are recommended to address trade facilitation issues: (1) Establish and strengthen institutional mechanisms for identifying trade facilitation bottlenecks and developing solutions, (2) Initiate or accelerate plans to establish national electronic Single Windows, incorporating existing international standards to ensure cross-border interoperability at the technical level, (3) Develop a harmonized regional framework for electronic exchange of trade data and documents, (4) Facilitate transit as part of trade facilitation plans, (5) Create an Asia-wide coordination mechanism bringing together representatives of key regional organizations active in trade facilitation, and (6) Encourage trade infrastructure and logistics services development.

I shall refer to eight of them: establishing in each State a national commission on small arms and light weapons; collecting and openly destroying small arms and light weapons used by rebels and other armed groups; strengthening and harmonizing national legislation and procedures on small arms and light weapons; enhancing the capacity of national security institutions to control small arms and light weapons; promoting traceability by creating registers and databanks; promoting the role of civil society in combating the proliferation of small arms and light weapons; implementing a regional policy of cross-border cooperation to combat proliferation of small arms and light weapons; and lastly, establishing an entity on small arms and light weapons within the secretariat of the Economic Community of Central African States.