Tentative list of activities envisaged for the celebration of the International Year of Deserts and Desertification

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Noting the activities undertaken within the framework of the celebration of the Year,

Support to the coordination and organization of activities relating to the

And they reduced child mortality, with an amazing 4.7 percent per year. They beat Sweden.

Israel would be hosting the international conference to mark the International Year of Deserts and Desertification in 2006.

Facilitor, Mr. Stefano Toscano (Switzerland), on a draft resolution on the International Year of the Potato

(h) Consideration of the report on observance of the International Year of Deserts and Desertification (2006)

They were more numerous than in the past year, and their impact has been of high value.

Thewo important Year's substantive projects related to the Year were initiated in 2004.

The offices also promote commemorative activities for the International Year of Sport and Physical Education.

The new rates are effective from the school year in progress on 1 January 2005.

The National Committee for the International Year of Rice in Senegal organized a workshop on The Situation of Rice Production and Plan of Action for 2004 and Beyond , while the Farmers' Rice Congress of the Gambia provided training activities to farmers to celebrate the Year.

We Tripantu is a Mapuche indian celebration to recognize the start of a new year at the Winter Solstice.

Egypt provided a description of activities involving workshops and national festivals pertinent to the International Year.

Furthermore, and acknowledging the role that the Government of Algeria intends to play in the IYDD process as one of its chefs de file, an invitation was extended to one of its representatives to join the inter agency committee on the IYDD.

A tentative list of activities has been drawn up by the inter agency committee for the commemoration of the International Year (see annex).

DPI NGO briefing in observance of the International Year of Sport and Physical Education

More than 800 activities were implemented in 68 countries in five continents to celebrate the Year.

The Rice Cultivators' Association of Uruguay published a special issue on El Arroz en el Mundo to commemorate the Year.

3. Invites all countries to establish national committees or focal points and to celebrate the Year by arranging appropriate activities

(a) Invited all countries to establish national committees or focal points and to celebrate the Year by arranging appropriate activities

The figures analysed in the present section are for the calendar year January December 2004.

Cameroon has dedicated a National Week of Sport and Physical Education in November in all provinces to commemorate the Year.

The commemoration in 2003 of the International Year of Fresh Water was a benchmark in the establishment of an international water agenda.

An International Programme Office on the International Polar Year was established at the British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge (United Kingdom).

Additionally, and according to General Assembly resolution 58 211, the Ssecretariat would encourage and actively assist the 191 country Parties to the Convention to establish IYDD Nnational Ccommittees, which will be in charge of coordinating the celebration of the yYear at the national level.

11. Encourages countries to undertake special initiatives in observance of the International Year of Deserts and Desertification and, as they are able, to contribute to its preparatory process

8. Requests the Secretary General to report to the General Assembly at its sixty second session on the celebration of the Year.

6. Requests the Secretary General to promote closer coordination to elaborate and support proposals and undertake activities related to the Year

I am 14 years old and a first year student at the Petar Preradović grammar school in Slatina, a town in northern Croatia.

A number of civil society organizations, including such sports organizations as the International Olympic Committee, have supported the commemoration of the International Year.

Action at the country level has made a significant contribution to the successful commemoration of the International Year of Sport and Physical Education.

The pan African celebration of the Year was held in Accra with the theme Rice is Life for Africans .

8. Requests the Secretary General to report to the General Assembly at its sixty second session on the celebration of the Year.

Notes with interest the decision of the Global Environment Facility Council to support, within its mandate, activities undertaken by affected developing countries parties to the Convention in the framework of the Year

Recalling also its resolution 61 203 of 20 December 2006 on the International Year of Biodiversity, 2010,

Encouraging the holding and supporting of regional, subregional and national events on the observance of the International Year of Microcredit, 2005,

4. Encourages voluntary partnerships among Member States, international organizations and major groups to promote activities related to the Year

The production and distribution of NERICA seed also took place in Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea and Sierra Leone during International Year of Rice celebrations.

5. Encourages countries to contribute, as they are able, to the Convention and to undertake special initiatives in observance of the Year with the goal of enhancing the implementation of the Convention

(c) Encouraged countries to contribute, as they are able, to the Convention and to undertake special initiatives in observance of the Year with the goal of enhancing the implementation of the Convention

A large number of partners have already confirmed their willingness to extend their cooperation and partnership for the successful celebration of the International Year of Deserts and Desertification.

The number of road traffic deaths was reduced by 22.8 per cent during the traditional Thai new year in April 2004.

Governments in all regions designated national focal points and committed themselves to actively celebrate the Year through planning and implementing concrete initiatives.