Full consideration should be given to the concerns of newly acceded countries as recognized in the July package .

The World Trade Organization technical assistance programme also provided for national seminars on World Trade Organization related topics upon request from member and accession countries.

Many Europeans, above all in the new NATO member states, would then demand more protection from the mythical Russian Leviathan.

Moreover, the new EU member states in Eastern Europe, which have neither the economic strength nor the political stability of long term members, are now beginning to take a nosedive.

The acceding countries, Bulgaria, Romania and Turkey, the countries of the Stabilization and Association Process and the potential candidates, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Serbia and Montenegro align themselves with this statement.

As a result, the EC and its 10 Acceding Countries have proposed the following interim reduction steps after 2005

Towards the implementation of its Conservation Measures, the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources is increasingly cooperating with non contracting parties.

2 For each State acceding to this Covenant, the Covenant shall enter into force on the thirtieth day after the deposit by such State of its instrument of accession.

As a result, the EC and its 10 Acceding Countries have proposed the following interim reduction steps after 2005

The Secretary General of the United Nations shall notify all States Members of the United Nations and all States which have signed or acceded to this Convention of the following

5. The Secretary General of the United Nations shall inform all States that have signed the present Protocol or acceded to it of the deposit of each instrument of ratification or accession.

I would like to mention that, since November last year, eight States have acceded to the Agreement on the Privileges and Immunities of the Tribunal, which brings the total to 21.

The Board will be informed of recent ICSC decisions and recommendations adopted by the General Assembly that are of relevance to UNIDO, as an organization in the United Nations common system.

Information submitted by the European Community and its acceding States, as requested by the Parties at the Open ended Working Group mMeeting held from 7 to 11 July 2003 in Montreal

In the negotiating process Belarus was in favour of establishing obligations for the joining countries in keeping with their economic situation which offered them an opportunity to derive real benefit from their participation in the multilateral trading system in the future.

Recognizing the importance of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women,United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1249, No. 20378. and noting that the number of States parties to the Convention is among the highest for human rights conventions,

Indeed, the country partners include all of Europe s non NATO countries, such as Austria, Switzerland, Finland, and Sweden, and aspiring and possible NATO members such as Bosnia, Serbia, Macedonia, Ukraine, Belarus, and even Russia.

Myanmar welcomed the gradual increase in the number of States acceding to nuclear weapon free zone treaties and hoped that the not too distant future would witness the establishment of nuclear weapon free zones in the Middle East and other regions where they did not exist.

The Open ended Working Group also agreed to suggest that the Seventeenth Meeting of the Parties look further into the matter of the possibility that new Parties joining the Montreal Protocol in the period 2006 2008, might require funding for meeting their obligations under the Protocol.

It is crucial to ensure fair and equitable terms of accession, commensurate with the trade, financial and development needs of acceding developing countries, and increased support in all stages of the accession negotiations, as well as to address specific needs of newly acceded countries in the Doha work programme negotiations.

First, in 1989, there were just four democracies in Africa.

' To assist the Parties to take a decision on the appropriate reduction steps, the European Community and its 10 Acceding Countries agreed at the Open Ended Working Group meeting 7 11 July 2003 in Montreal to provide further information for the consideration of the Parties.

Through its control of natural gas pipelines, Gazprom is by far Russia s chief tool for maintaining influence in the former Soviet former republics of Central Asia, the Caucasus, Belarus, Ukraine, and even in the Baltic states (now EU members).

A number of States have taken up this call since passage of the resolution. In 2003, Timor Leste acceded to the 1951 Convention and its 1967 Protocol and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines acceded to the Protocol, bringing the total number of States that have acceded to at least one of these instruments to 145.

4 Countries included in the least developed countries category are those established by the Economic and Social Council.

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He raised some issues regarding developing and developed country constituencies and how countries had dealt with them.

Developing countries blame rich countries for the lack of progress.

Multiple negotiating processes have resulted in a complex and overlapping network of rules with different obligations. This creates challenges for the signatory countries, in particular the developing ones.

The States most likely to be affected would seem to be

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But developed countries differ from developing countries in an important way.

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Sustained rapid growth is the result of poorer countries catching up to rich countries productivity levels not of growth in the rich countries themselves.

She recalled the primary responsibility of developing countries for their own development and the responsibility of developed countries to support their efforts in that regard.

Development will be difficult to achieve in developing countries so long as there is a net outflow of resources from those countries to developed countries.

Prices in developing countries are usually lower than in the developed countries.

This is a serious hurdle faced by many small countries, especially least developed countries.

They also contribute least to the global emissions of greenhouse gases.

Developing countries have been participating in agreements with both developed and developing countries.

Supporting non G8 countries in technology transfer

Underlining the urgent need to mitigate the negative consequences of globalization and interdependence for all developing countries, including landlocked developing countries, small island developing States and, in particular, African countries and the least developed countries,

We appeal to the developed countries to open their markets to the exports of developing countries and to guarantee free access, without quotas, to all exports of least developed countries.