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General Assembly Official Records Sixtieth session Supplement No. 48 (A 60 48)

General Assembly Official Records Fifty ninth session Supplement No. 48 (A 60 48)

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48. A witness voiced the apprehensions of the Palestinian population with regard to the future

48. The following elements could be incorporated into this section of a declaration.

The Meeting took note of the recommendations formulated by the Expert Meeting on the Use of Information Technologies to Make Transit Arrangements More Effective.

Canada apos s Security Council candidature 48. The Forum commended to members for their favourable consideration Canada apos s Security Council candidature.

48. Requests the Secretary General to report annually to the General Assembly, the Commission on the Status of Women and the Economic and Social Council on follow up to and implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action.

48. At the 48th meeting, on 26 November, the representative of Colombia, on behalf of the sponsors, orally revised the draft resolution as follows

48. Liability and war risk insurance. No change.

48. To guard against such occurrences, several steps should be taken in the budgetary process, in precise order.

48. His delegation believed that the proposed programme budget should have included all the posts needed to ensure that the various departments of the Secretariat were able to carry out their approved programmes and activities without any need to resort to gratis personnel. That objective could have been achieved by simply reducing the number of posts which the Secretary General proposed to abolish.

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48. No provision was made under this heading.

48. The situation concerning Rwanda

48. The Board is disappointed that further progress has not been made to ensure full integration of the UNIFEM budget management system with the main UNDP financial system.

48. The Board recommends that UNHCR investigate the above cases and take prompt action to recover any amounts overpaid. Delays in project implementation

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48. In order to ensure collaboration with other partners, UNIFEM organized a Project Approval Committee meeting for the selection of activities for funding.

48. We take note of the CARICOM initiative aimed at the establishment of a regional integration fund in the context of negotiations on the proposed free trade area of the Americas, as a mechanism to alleviate the problem of imbalances between the more developed countries and the smaller countries of the hemisphere. International cooperation on Guatemala

48. The delegation of Cuba formally raised the question of the United States quot Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity Act of 1996 quot in two organs of the World Trade Organization the Council for Trade in Goods, on 19 March 1996, and the General Council, on 16 April 1996. No substantive decision was adopted on the matter at those meetings.

48. The development of a national plan of action should be linked to a corresponding policy declaration and the freeing up of resources to help realize the programme goals. In this regard, the committee should make as much use as possible of institutional, human and financial resources already available, according to national conditions, by reorienting available resources for national programmes.

Lastly, the allegations of discrimination in educational matters by Sunni Muslims were refuted. 48. The Special Rapporteur thanks the Saudi Arabian authorities for their detailed and closely reasoned reply and attaches the highest importance to their firm intention to cooperate with him and with all the human rights bodies.

48. The Special Rapporteur is of the opinion that any cooperation in the field of technical assistance and advisory services should be initiated with special regard to the improvement in the communication and the flow of information between the Government of the Sudan and the Office of the High Commissioner and the Special Rapporteur. The following aspects should be taken into consideration in this regard

48. Coordinating bodies of non governmental organizations have played an important role in providing humanitarian and rehabilitation assistance to Afghanistan. The Agency Coordination Body for Afghanistan and the Afghan NGO Coordination Bureau are two such bodies that work in Afghanistan to ensure coherent coordination of activities undertaken by the hundreds of local and international non governmental organizations working to improve the lives of the Afghan people.