Candide became part of his large, diverse body of philosophical, political and artistic works expressing these views.

In conclusion, I echo a comment made by Mr. Egeland and express our concern at the weak response to some United Nations emergency appeals regarding certain situations here I refer in particular to the Sahel.

Introductory remarks by H.E. Ambassador Munir Akram, President of ECOSOC, began with the acknowledgment and welcoming of everyone to the NGO Civil Society Forum.

By focusing its efforts on implementation, the Special Committee had created a new dynamic and he was sure that, with the support of Member States, the challenge of implementation could be met.

Lastly, it was to be hoped that the recent conclusion of the Cooperation Agreement between UNIDO and UNDP would help improve the effectiveness of the field offices and enhance decentralization within the Organization.

Fiji supported the continuation of annual regional seminars held alternately in the Caribbean and Pacific regions and would like to see more vigorous efforts to implement their outcomes.

Lastly, it had discussed the work of the United Nations Programme on Space Applications and he was pleased to note that the Programme was stepping up its efforts to help countries develop and implement new projects as a follow up to various programme activities.

With respect to those three points, I should like to make some brief comments and to convey the gratitude of the Government of Haiti for the support being provided by the United Nations system through MINUSTAH.

The EU also welcomed the consultations held by UNIDO staff with officials from the Marshall Islands, Samoa, Solomon Islands and Tuvalu on accession to the Organization's Constitution and hoped that those consultations would continue.

His delegation felt strongly that issues relating to WTO negotiations should not be discussed at the United Nations and hoped that the language of the draft resolution would not be cited in a way that interfered with those negotiations.

With regard to the statements by the representatives of Chile and Peru, he agreed that it was important to increase decision makers' awareness of the benefits of space technology and that it was regrettable that meetings on that issue at the fifty ninth session had been poorly attended.

Mr. LEE Jae Wan (Republic of Korea), speaking on behalf of the Asian Group, expressed support for the efforts being made to increase the Organization's membership and hoped that as many new countries as possible would join the Organization in the near future.

Mr. Al Ansari (Qatar), speaking on behalf of the Group of 77 and China, said that the Group attached great importance to the Organization's human resources. He expressed concern about the late submission of the documents relating to agenda item 114, since the question of human resources should be examined comprehensively at the current session.

Khalidi describes the Arab population of British Mandatory Palestine as having overlapping identities, with some or many expressing loyalties to villages, regions, a projected nation of Palestine, an alternative of inclusion in a Greater Syria, an Arab national project, as well as to Islam.