International staff and Guatemalan staff worked side by side in innovative ways.

The strategy that was developed grew out of a conviction that the long term success of the Guatemalan peace process depends on Guatemalan institutions both State and civil society and on their commitment to the peace accords.

In that framework, a contingent of Guatemalan military police officers constitutes our current contribution to MINUSTAH.

Mario Rafael Rodríguez Rodríguez (born September 14, 1981 in Guatemala City, Guatemala) is a Guatemalan football midfielder.

The Millennium Declaration provides a focus for national efforts to improve the well being of Guatemalan society.

While many in Guatemalan society welcomed the presence of the Mission, MINUGUA faced tough criticism at times.

The majority of the Guatemalan diaspora is located in the United States, with estimates ranging from 480,665 to 1,489,426.

Guatemalan young people thus provided us with a valuable lesson that should be taken into account by the rest of society.

In all, more than 430 international and Guatemalan personnel served in various professional capacities under the umbrella of the UNV programme.

The Guatemalan people welcomed MINUGUA with open arms, standing by the Mission in difficult times and engaging actively in the peace process.

These type of paintings might be considered more art oriented , as Guatemalan artist NEARsyx from Hemisferio Urbano expressed in part I of this article.

The United Nations Verification Mission in Guatemala (MINUGUA) completed operations on 31 December 2004, after 10 years of support to the Guatemalan peace process.

During 2002, MINUGUA verified passage of legislation making racial and other forms of discrimination crimes in the Guatemalan penal code for the first time.

The United Nations Verification Mission in Guatemala closed at the end of 2004, successfully completing 10 years of dedicated support to the Guatemalan peace process.

Guatemalan research centres and experts likewise contributed to the discussion of the various issues at hand, the results of which are summarized in this report.

Despite this cultural richness, Guatemalan society as a whole must overcome the barriers to greater appreciation of and respect for the cultural diversity that characterizes it.

That is why, two years ago, we launched the national youth policy, aimed at the comprehensive and sustainable development of the Guatemalan young people participating in it.

The Zetas star recruits in recent years have come from the Guatemalan military s special forces, whose infamous induction technique involved biting off the head of a live chicken.

Other indicators like chronic malnutrition, or the percentage of children under five years of age below normal height, highlight the precarious conditions in which many Guatemalan children live.

Its first accomplishment had been the elaboration of the National Policy for the Promotion and Development of Guatemalan Women and the Plan for Equity of Opportunities 2001 2006.

In 1999, opponents of the peace accords orchestrated a successful public campaign to defeat a referendum to enshrine key aspects of the peace accords in the Guatemalan Constitution.

The CTC would appreciate receiving an indication of whether Guatemalan authorities are empowered to freeze assets of persons and entities involved in terrorist acts at the request of another State.

For example, according to information provided by the Government of Guatemala, over 50 per cent of Guatemalan women need permission from their husbands to use any form of birth control.

Tragedy struck the Mission when a United Nations helicopter crashed in the mountains of the department of Huehuetenango on 17 March 1998, killing seven MINUGUA officials and their Guatemalan pilot.

It emphasized national capacity building and sharing the Mission's accumulated experience and know how with the Guatemalan institutions and organizations that can make a difference in building peace in the future.

In late 2003, MINUGUA created a special on the job training programme to incorporate 60 young Guatemalan professionals, as United Nations Volunteers, into the Mission's substantive work in its final year.

The book was written in 1690 and is regarded as one of the most important works of Guatemalan history, and is the first such book to have been written by a criollo author.

Recently inaugurated Guatemalan President Otto Pérez Molina, together with Santos and other heads of state, question today s punitive, prohibitionist approach, owing to its enormous costs and meager results, and propose a different strategy legalization.

Lecturer at the seminar for Guatemalan judges on the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, Judicial Academy, Guatemala City, and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Vienna, 9 10 November 2004.

The entire content of that Internet page (www.minugua.guate.net) has been distributed in the form of an interactive CD ROM to Guatemalan research centres, libraries and other groups and institutions involved in the peace process.

This was first demonstrated in the 1960 s, when Guatemalan researchers gave children in two randomly selected villages a nutritious porridge each day, and a much less nutritious fruit drink to children in two other villages.

Finally, I must tell the Assembly how much I regret having been the one to make this statement in this Hall, because my Government would have preferred that a representative of Guatemalan youth could have come.

Despite broad participation in the peace negotiations by organized groups of civil society, the Guatemalan general public was largely uninformed about the peace process and unaware of the content of the agreements when they were signed.

With the end of international verification, the Guatemalan peace process has matured into a new and important phase in which national actors are assuming fuller responsibility for monitoring and promoting the goals of the peace accords.

Renata Avila, a transparency advocate and longtime contributor to GV and GV Advocacy, discussed the case of American journalist Nicholas Blake, in which the Guatemalan state was declared responsible for the journalist's disappearance. She writes of her experience

MINUGUA carried out its mandate to provide technical assistance at different levels, informally, in its day to day relationships with national institutions and civil society and through specific projects financed through the Trust Fund for the Guatemalan Peace Process.

15. Encourages the parties and all sectors of Guatemalan society to intensify their efforts to achieve the goals of the peace agreements, in particular the observance of human rights, including the rights of indigenous peoples, equitable development, participation and national reconciliation

The recent trial and conviction, in a national court, of former Guatemalan President General Efraín Ríos Montt on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity is only the latest blow against the impunity that previously protected high officials responsible for atrocities.

Nor can I fail to mention the national and international cooperative entities that took part in this process, including the Guatemalan Indigenous Development Fund, the United Nations Population Fund, UNICEF, the German Agency for Technical Cooperation and the Iberoamerican Youth Organization.

The bird is of great relevance to Guatemalan culture, being a character in the widely popular legend of the local hero Tecún Umán, a prince and warrior of the Quiché (K'iche') Maya during the latter stages of the Spanish conquest of the region.

They include 23 reports of the Secretary General to the General Assembly, as well as many other documents and statements issued by the Mission only in Guatemala.6 The voluminous body of work of MINUGUA has heavily influenced the public debate, providing Guatemalan actors and the donor community with informed diagnoses and recommendations for reforming Government policies and institutions in the spirit of the peace accords.