Mr. Wali (Nigeria) was elected Chairman by acclamation.

Ms. Schöpp Schilling was elected Vice Chairperson by acclamation.

The Canadian government passed emergency legislation allowing the reactor to restart on 16 December 2007, and production of medical isotopes to continue.

Mr. Koudelka (Czech Republic), Mr. Hart (Barbados) and Mr. Toscano (Switzerland) were elected Vice Chairmen and Mr. Alshahibi (Yemen) was elected Rapporteur by acclamation.

Morocco's intransigence continued to impede the efforts to reach a just solution, although the latest Baker plan, that had been accepted by the Frente POLISARIO and approved unanimously by the Security Council, seemed to have given new impetus to those efforts.

It was encouraging that at the current session of the Working Group, the idea of broadening the scope of protection offered to United Nations and associated personnel had secured unanimous support.

The Spaceguard Foundation assisted members of the Committee in preparing for the discussions and the Committee unanimously approved a resolution that was presented to the Parliamentary Assembly and approved as Council of Europe resolution 1080 on 20 March 1996.

Although the European Parliament had unanimously adopted a resolution in April 2005 calling on ECHO to review its decision so that the Saharan refugees would have a wider range of foodstuffs, no decision had yet been taken on this matter.

Consider the muddle in the United Nations Security Council over Syria s civil war. Just two years ago, the Council approved a resolution authorizing a military intervention in Libya the first resolution to implement the responsibility to protect (R2P) principle, which the general assembly adopted unanimously in 2005.