Regional level

International and regional organizations

(Non United Nations Members Associate Members of the Regional Commissions)

Coordinate regional conference via PEACESAT to link indigenous peoples through telecommunication

Ms. Valérie Engammare, Regional Manager, South East Asia, Swiss Organization for Facilitating Investment, Berne, Switzerland

UNODC, Regional Office for Southern Africa, Country Corruption Assessment Report, at www.pmg.org.za docs 2003 appendices INTREG.htm.

State of the Marine Environment Report. Regional Organisation for the Protection of the Marine Environment, Kuwait, 2003, 217 pp.

See G. Damien, Competition law and regional economic integration an analysis of the Southern Mediterranean countries, World Bank Working Paper series no. 35, 2004.

Continuous promotion and strengthening of the cooperation between the United Nations bodies and regional human rights mechanisms dealing with the rights of indigenous peoples.

Saxenian, AnnaLee, Regional Advantage Culture and competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128, Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1994.

Linden, O. et al. State of the marine environment in the ROPME Sea Area. UNEP Regional Seas Reports and Studies No. 112 Rev.1, 1990.

State of the Marine Environment 2003. Marine Pollution and Coastal Zone Management Section Ministry of Regional Municipalities, Environment and Water Resources (MRMEWR). Muscat, Sultanate of Oman, 2003.

09 00 10 30 Item 10. WP Activity 7 Proposing effective methodologies for the assessment of desertification at the global, regional and local levels, so that the Convention can be implemented in consultation and interaction with other related ongoing efforts (Coordinator Takeuchi)

See J. Musonda, Regional competition policy for COMESA countries and implications for an FTA in 2000 , in UNCTAD, Competition policy, trade and development in the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (UNCTAD ITCD CLP Misc.18), p. 103.

See the final report of the First African Regional Consultation on violence against women with the Special Rapporteur on violence against women and the Special Rapporteur of the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights on Women's Rights, Khartoum, Sudan, 25 26 September 2004, prepared by the Geneva Institute for Human Rights.

First Latin American Congress of Lawyers Against Drug Related Crime, on the theme Analysis of the possibility of creating a regional court of justice . Congress organized by Gaceta del Foro, the senior publication of Argentine justice, held at Caesar Park Hotel, Buenos Aires, 22 and 23 August 1996.

At the same time, the Turkish government is pursuing a separate path of negotiations, through a rapprochement with another Kurdish authority the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) in northern Iraq. The grand vision is to integrate Iraqi Kurdistan into the Turkish economy.

Finally, there have been multilateral security dialogues the ASEAN Regional Forum and now the East Asia Summit the most prominent among them designed to be vehicles for confidence building, and conflict prevention and management. These mechanisms have so far promised more than they have delivered, though not for want of continuing efforts to give them more clout.

Iraq today is not the unitary Arab nation state that it was, and it is doubtful whether that state can be restored. The Kurdish Regional Government in the north is a de facto state, with its own army, border authorities, and control (up to a point) of the natural resources located on its territory.