The Technical Advisory Group has provided effective technical support.

Substantive servicing of meetings substantive and technical servicing of Committee plenary and working group meetings (120) substantive and technical servicing of pre session working group meetings (40) substantive and technical servicing of working group on petitions (40)

Working Group of Diamond Experts and Technical Issues

Welcoming the technical papers of the Least Developed Countries Expert Group,

Summary for policymakers and Technical Summary of the Working Group III Report.

His Group called on UNCTAD to intensify its technical cooperation in this area.

The Technical Expert Group met in Geneva from 8 to 11 November 2005.

This year, the technical group, which now includes Germany and Algeria, discussed short term initiatives.

A Technical Group (TG) on Cesareans was created to define strategies to reduce cesarean birth rates.

Technical support to the Intergovernmental Group of 24 on International Monetary Affairs and Development (G 24)

At the technical level, the working group on police reform has met on a weekly basis, and the working group on defence sector reform has met twice.

The group of technical experts recommended that while the model and guide are being developed, the secretariat should

Working Group 1 Allocation of roles and responsibilities Working Group 2 Maintaining ecosystem functions Working Group 3 Policy, regulatory frameworks, equitable benefit sharing Working Group 4 Financial incentives, promoting investment, private sector Working Group 5 Participation, conflict and multi stakeholder processes Working Group 6 Capacity building, technical and information support

Once the bank is established, a working group will be tasked with building the necessary technical and governance capacity.

The discussions also focused on ensuring that replanning is conducted appropriately and lawfully, including through a joint technical group.

8 For the purpose of this technical guidance, cluster refers to inventory related data from a group of countries.

6 For the purpose of this technical guidance, cluster refers to inventory related data from a group of countries.

The United Nations Development Group (UNDG) inter agency audit task group, of which UNFPA is a member, finalized a technical note on the appointment of project auditors in September 2005.

The procedure was endorsed by the Technical Advisory Group as a simpler price collection tool than those currently in use.

The Group, in particular, strongly endorsed the idea to have a consolidated and coordinated technical cooperation programme to assist LLDCs.

The members of the Working Group on Nuclear Power Sources in Outer Space recommend that the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee

This aim will be pursued through the organization of workshops, expert group meetings and other specialized forums for technical debate.

The Group noted that technical cooperation activities in 2004 amounted to 98.8 million, an increase of 17.2 million compared with 2002.

The LDC Group believed that the resulting vicious circle of debt could be broken only by massive financial and technical assistance.

(a) The mode of operation for the Technical Expert Group and the method to be used for resolving structural and conceptual issues

Since last year, the Technical Group on Innovative Financing Mechanisms has discussed various proposals, to which Spain has made an active contribution.

The working group was planning to prepare guidelines on auditing and technical notes on risk assessment during the second quarter of 2005.

We have also proposed the establishment of two more working groups for technical dialogue, a working group for privatization and a working group for environmental protection, but we have not yet received a reply.

Mandates the small intersessional working group to finalize the preparation of the following specific technical guidelines on persistent organic pollutantsPOPs in time for prior to the nextfifth meetingsession of the Open ended Working Group

The Technical Subgroup on the International Standard Classification of Occupations will report back to the Expert Group at a meeting in early 2007.

With that in mind, the Technical Group is preparing a proposal that could constitute the basis for broad consultations at the United Nations.

The group agreed to disseminate the document as a technical paper (FCCC TP 2005 4) for reference by LDCs, other Parties and agencies.

If the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee accepts the recommendation of the Working Group to hold the joint workshop, the following timetable is envisaged

Consequently, the biological weapons group was transferred to the Forensic Research Department of the Technical Research Centre at Salman Pak in mid 1987.

Comment by the Administration. A technical note on the appointment of project auditors is being finalized by the inter agency audit task group of the United Nations Development Group, of which UNFPA is a member.

To ensure that its policies and recommendations reflect state of the art technical knowledge, particularly with regard to global advocacy and large scale implementation, UNICEF will periodically convene an independent technical advisory group composed of globally recognized experts.

At the request of Member States, technical assistance will be provided in the form of (a) advisory services (b) global, regional, subregional and national technical cooperation projects (c) conferences, seminars, workshops and group training (d) fellowships and (e) documentation and information as they relate to both advisory services and technical cooperation.

The report of the group, which appeared in late 2004, surveyed a wide range of alternatives and provided a technical analysis of their feasibility.

In that connection, Indonesia, together with Malaysia and Singapore, has intensified its cooperation through the Tripartite Technical Expert Group on the safety of navigation.

In the past, IFAD (1997) has instituted a Technical Assessment Group consisting of outside specialists and scientists who provide inputs into Jordan's rangeland programmes.

The ad hoc expert group was established and met during the forty second session of the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee in February March 2005.

The Working Group agreed to hold, jointly with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), a technical workshop during the first two days of the forty third session of the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee, to be held in February 2006.

1.22 The secretariat of the Board provides substantive, technical and administrative support to the Board, its Audit Operations Committee and the Panel of External Auditors and its Technical Group, including research and analysis of documentation relevant to their activities.

Welcoming the decision by the Association of Caribbean States to establish the Technical Advisory Group to further advance the Caribbean Sea Initiative and the implementation of resolutions 55 203 and 57 261, inter alia, through the preparation of a technical report,

Would members of the Working Group on the Use of Nuclear Power Sources in Outer Space be able to support the joint Scientific and Technical Subcommittee International Atomic Energy Agency technical team review at times other than February and June?