(i) Support for the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child

Capacity building for experts in developing countries should also be supported.

Expert group meetings and expert briefs are supporting the preparation of particular aspects of the study.

And, given the EFSF s limited firepower, the market would have been left without support.

The SBI encouraged the CGE to continue its coordination efforts with the NCSP and other expert groups under the Convention and requested the secretariat to support the efforts of the CGE.

The similarity between the SMSF and OMTs also implies that at least one of the two institutions is exceeding its mandate.

Support to the Consultative Group of Experts on National Communications from Parties not included in Annex I to the Convention (CGE) and the Least Developed Countries Expert Group (LEG) will continue to play a pivotal role.

6. Lays down in the annex to the present resolution the recommendations on ways in which Governments and the United Nations system could support volunteering

The programme supported the organization of the training course to provide methodological tools for project preparation for submission to the GEF.

Compilation and synthesis of initial national communications

Additional support to four African country Parties not included in the medium size GEF project was received from individual donor countries.

The European Commission has agreed to support the work of the GoE by convening the fourth meeting of the Group in the second half of 2005.

(a) To take note of the roster of experts nominated by Parties who could be invited to support the work of the Committee

During the Expert Meeting, support had also been expressed for UNCTAD's ongoing technical cooperation projects regarding transit transport clusters.

Consistent with the conclusions of the sixth meeting of the LEG, the following papers were prepared by the LEG and the secretariat for consideration at this meeting

8. Calls upon the international community, the United Nations system and the multilateral financial institutions, including the Global Environment Facility, within its mandate, to support actively the above mentioned approach

The annex to the present note provides the breakdown of the resources approved for 15 peacekeeping operations, the support account for peacekeeping operations and the United Nations Logistics Base.

(b) To consider the need to invite experts to support the work of the Committee at its third meeting and in the intersessional period leading up to it.

Chapter II

Item 5 of the provisional agenda

and subregional Centres

Contents

Introduction

ICCD COP(4) 3 Add.7 Implementation of the Convention Addendum Consideration of additional procedures or institutional mechanisms to assist the Conference of the Parties in regularly reviewing the implementation of the Convention

See article 14 of the International Covenant of Civil and Political Rights article 8 of the American Convention on Human Rights article 6 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 213, No. 2889) and article 7 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights (United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1520, No. 26363).

Ban should support the creation of an international facility that would provide governments access to (but not physical control of) enriched uranium and plutonium for the generation of electrical power.

Other proposals, such as the creation of an international finance facility and substantial additional resources to assist the developing world, especially Africa, during the transitional process must also be supported.

Approves the Covenant on the Rights of the Child in Islam , which has been finalized at the ninth Meeting of the Intergovernmental Expert Group on the follow up of the Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam, as annexed to this resolution.

Because the Constitutional Court has already given a green light to the ESM s SMSF program, how it will rule on the OMT program should be clear.

Annex to the Convention

Annex to the Convention

(Text annexed)

6. Welcomes the establishment and coming into force of the African Peace Facility of the European Union to support the implementation of peace initiatives undertaken by the African Union and African subregional organizations

Partnerships with sister organizations of the United Nations system and other international organizations, as well as the use of specialized inputs of national expertise, continue to reinforce the support platform for the mission.

Annex to the Financial Regulations

(Draft text annexed)

DESERTIFICATION, PARTICULARLY IN AFRICA

Global Environment Facility Global Environment Facility, Instrument for the Establishment of the Restructured Global Environment Facility, 1994, as amended, http thegef.org GEF_Instrument3.pdf.

The study of the ad hoc expert group identified several international initiatives that were contributing in a significant way to increasing the use of space based technologies in support of disaster management activities.

(b) Upstream and analytical work, including expert group meetings and joint projects with research institutions, to support the development of UNIDO priority programmes and new initiatives

Overall, motivations for such FDI tend to be similar to those for R D related FDI from developed country TNCs (for example to support local sales abroad, to be near global manufacturing bases, and to hire foreign experts).

(f) Annex to the financial regulations.

The documents of the symposium are attached hereto.

(Text of article 260 annexed)

Written statement (Annexed).