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Question of French Polynesia (2015), para. 15
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- 3. Calls upon the administering Power to participate in and cooperate fully with the work of the Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples in order to implement the provisions of Article 73 e of the Charter and the Declaration and in order to advise the Special Committee on the implementation of the provisions under Article 73 b of the Charter on efforts to promote self-government in French Polynesia, and encourages the administering Power to facilitate visiting and special missions to the Territory;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Persons on the move
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Report of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law on the work of its thirty-sixth session (2004), para. 17
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- 8. Decides, in order to ensure full participation by all Member States in the sessions of the Commission and its working groups, to continue, in the competent Main Committee during the fifty-eighth session of the General Assembly, its consideration of granting travel assistance to the least developed countries that are members of the Commission, at their request and in consultation with the Secretary- General;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
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Pattern of conferences (2013), para. 121
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- 15. Requests the Secretary-General to make further concerted efforts to promote outreach programmes, such as traineeships and internships, and to introduce innovative methods to increase awareness of the programmes, including through partnerships with Member States, relevant international organizations and language institutions in all regions, in particular to close the wide gap in Africa and Latin America, and to report to the General Assembly thereon at its sixty-eighth session;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
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Offers by Member States of study and training facilities for inhabitants of Non-Self-Governing Territories (2005), para. 07
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- 2. Expresses its appreciation to those Member States that have made scholarships available to the inhabitants of Non-Self-Governing Territories;
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- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
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Specific actions related to the particular needs and problems of landlocked developing countries: follow-up to the second United Nations Conference on Landlocked Developing Countries (2015), para. 14
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- 2. Invites the landlocked developing countries, transit countries, their development partners, the United Nations system and all other actors to implement the actions that have been agreed upon in the Vienna Programme of Action for Landlocked Developing Countries for the Decade 2014–2024 10 in its six priority areas, namely, fundamental transit policy issues, infrastructure development and maintenance, international trade and trade facilitation, regional integration and cooperation, structural economic transformation and means of implementation at all levels, in a coordinated, coherent and expeditious manner;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
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Mobility framework (2014), para. 08
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- 5. Recalls regulation 1.2 (c) of the United Nations Staff Regulations, and in this regard underlines that the calculation of post occupancy for staff members under the managed mobility framework shall include time served in their current posts;
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- Economic Rights
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
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United Nations common system: report of the International Civil Service Commission (1998), para. 69
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- Recalling its decision 51/465 of 3 April 1997, in which it requested the Commission to review, at the earliest opportunity, taking into account the reports of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions 9 and the Joint Inspection Unit, 10 the question of travel entitlements of staff of the common system,
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
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Report of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories (1994), para. 17
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- (a) To provide all necessary facilities to the Special Committee, including those required for its visits to the occupied territories, so that it may investigate the Israeli policies and practices referred to in the present resolution;
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- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
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Outcome document of the midterm review of the Almaty Programme of Action: Addressing the Special Needs of Landlocked Developing Countries within a New Global Framework for Transit Transport Cooperation for Landlocked and Transit Developing Countries (2008), para. 45
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- 24. Acknowledge the increased attention and resources devoted by the United Nations system and international organizations to the challenges facing landlocked and transit developing countries. We recognize with appreciation the progress made towards developing effective monitoring mechanisms to measure the progress in implementation of the Almaty Programme of Action. We appreciate the work undertaken by the United Nations Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States on a set of macroeconomic, trade and transport indicators, by the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific on the time/cost methodology and the World Bank with its Logistics Performance Index and the Doing Business indicators that provide quantifiable data to measure the progress, and emphasize that these efforts should be pursued further;
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- Economic Rights
- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
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Report of the Committee on Relations with the Host Country (2016), para. 08
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- 4. Requests the host country to consider removing the remaining travel restrictions imposed by it on staff of certain missions and staff members of the Secretariat of certain nationalities, and in this regard notes the long -standing positions of affected States, of the Secretary-General and of the host country;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
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Oceans and the law of the sea (2018), para. 101
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- 46. Calls upon the Division to continue to disseminate information on relevant procedures related to the trust fund established for the purpose of facilitating the preparation of submissions to the Commission and to continue its dialogue with potential beneficiaries with a view to providing financial support to developing countries for activities to facilitate their submissions in accordance with the requirements of article 76 of the Convention and with the Rules of Procedure 29 and the Scientific and Technical Guidelines of the Commission 30 and to defray the costs of travel and daily subsistence allowance for delegates to participate in meetings with the Commission upon its invitation;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
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Questions relating to the proposed programme budget for the biennium 2016–2017 (2016), para. 067
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- 48. Decides to reduce the resources for travel of staff by 5 per cent in addition to the reductions already recommended by the Advisory Committee, with the exception of travel required under sections 9 and 18 to 23 of the proposed programme budget;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
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Dissemination of information on decolonization (2013), para. 13
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- 4. Requests the Department of Public Information to continue its efforts to update web-based information on the assistance programmes available to the Non-Self-Governing Territories;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
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Implementation of the Convention on Cluster Munitions (2018), para. 20
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- 1. Urges all States outside the Convention on Cluster Munitions 2 to join as soon as possible, whether by ratifying or acceding to it, and all States parties that are in a position to do so to promote adherence to the Convention through bilateral, subregional and multilateral contacts, outreach and other means;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
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International Guidelines for Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Responses with Respect to Trafficking in Cultural Property and Other Related Offences (2015), para. 111
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- Guideline 48. States should consider applying the Guidelines in any situations, including exceptional circumstances, that foster trafficking in cultural property and related offences, in the framework of the above-mentioned conventions and other relevant international instruments.
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
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Implementation of the provisions of the Charter of the United Nations related to assistance to third States affected by the application of sanctions (2002), para. 43
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- 11. Decides to consider, within the Sixth Committee or a working group of the Committee, at the fifty-seventh session of the General Assembly, further progress in the elaboration of effective measures aimed at the implementation of the provisions of the Charter related to assistance to third States affected by the application of sanctions under Chapter VII of the Charter;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
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Financing of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Genocide and Other Serious Violations of International Humanitarian LawViolations Committed in the Territory of Neighbouring States between 1 January and 31 December 1994 (2004), para. 29
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- 23. Requests the Secretary-General to pursue the possibility of assistance to the Tribunal from the United Nations Office at Nairobi and other offices of the United Nations system to increase remote translation capabilities and to report on cost comparisons in his first performance report;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
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Strengthening emergency relief, rehabilitation, reconstruction and prevention in the aftermath of the Indian Ocean tsunami disaster (2005), para. 09
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- Welcoming the appointment by the Secretary-General of a Special Coordinator to coordinate international emergency relief operations in support of national emergency programmes of countries affected by the tsunami disaster and covered by the flash appeal,
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
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Agreement between the United Nations and the World Tourism Organization (2004), para. 21
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- 1. Representatives of the United Nations shall be invited to attend the meetings of the General Assembly and the Executive Council of the World Tourism Organization and their subsidiary organs, and to participate, without the right to vote, in the deliberations of these bodies. Written statements presented by the United Nations shall be distributed by the secretariat of the World Tourism Organization to the members of the above-mentioned bodies, in accordance with the relevant rules of procedure.
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
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Transparency and confidence-building measures in outer space activities (2016), para. 16
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- Welcoming resolution 186 of 7 November 2014 on strengthening the role of the International Telecommunication Union with regard to transparency and confidence - building measures in outer space activities, adopted by the 2014 Plenipotentiary Conference of the Union, held in Busan, Republic of Korea, from 20 October to 7 November 2014,
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- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
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Arbitrary detention (2012), para. 18
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- 7. Also encourages all States to cooperate with the Working Group and to give serious consideration to responding favourably to its requests for visits so that it may carry out its mandate even more effectively;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
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Report of the Special Committee on the Charter of the United Nations and on the Strengthening of the Role of the Organization (2006), para. 37
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- 15. Also requests the Secretary-General to submit to the Special Committee for its consideration the information referred to in paragraph 12 of his report on implementation of the provisions of the Charter of the United Nations related to assistance to third States affected by the application of sanctions, 8 on modalities, technical procedures and guidelines on coordination of technical assistance available to third States affected by the implementation of sanctions, as well as a possible methodology for assessing the adverse consequences actually incurred by third States, in the report mentioned in paragraph 16 below;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
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Multilingualism (2019), para. 030
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- 15. Notes the difficulties reported by Secretariat entities in compiling accurate and comprehensive data for the report of the Secretary-General, owing, inter alia, to the lack of disaggregated data by language, and welcomes efforts by the Coordinator for Multilingualism to address the problem among Secretariat entities;
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- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
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The law of transboundary aquifers (2009), para. 011
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- 5. Encourages the States concerned to make appropriate bilateral or regional arrangements for the proper management of their transboundary aquifers, taking into account the provisions of these draft articles;
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- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
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Question of New Caledonia (2011), para. 28
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- 22. Recalls the continuing high-level visits to New Caledonia by delegations from countries of the Pacific region and high-level visits by delegations from New Caledonia to countries members of the Pacific Islands Forum;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
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Question of New Caledonia (2019), para. 32
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- 2. Reiterates its endorsement of the reports, observations, conclusions and recommendations of the United Nations visiting missions to New Caledo nia conducted in 2014 and 2018; 5
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- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
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Strengthening the links between all modes of transport to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (2018), para. 08
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- Recalling the Ashgabat Declaration, adopted at the High-level International Conference on the Role of Transit Transport Corridors in Ensuring International Cooperation, Stability and Sustainable Development held in Ashgabat on 3 and 4 September 2014, 10 in cooperation with the Economic Commission for Europe, the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific and the International Road Transport Union,
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
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Report of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law on the work of its fifty-second session (2019), para. 25
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- 14. Appeals to Governments, the relevant bodies of the United Nations system, organizations, institutions and individuals to make voluntary contributions to the trust fund established to provide travel assistance to developing countries that are members of the Commission, at their request and in consultation with the Secretary-General, in order to enable renewal of the provision of that assistance and to increase expert representation from developing countries at sessions of the Commission and its working groups, necessary to build local expertise and capacities in those countries to put in place a regulatory and enabling environment for business, trade and investment;
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- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- All
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Pattern of conferences (2015), para. 147
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- 130. Requests the Secretary-General to continue to improve and strengthen his initiatives related to training and to replenishing the language capacity of the Organization, including through the outreach programmes, to ensure sufficient capacity to address the interpretation and translation requirements of the Organization;
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- Education
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
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Question of New Caledonia (2000), para. 21
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- 14. Welcomes, in this regard, the accession by New Caledonia to the status of observer in the South Pacific Forum, continuing high-level visits to New Caledonia by delegations from countries of the Pacific region and high-level visits by delegations from New Caledonia to countries members of the South Pacific Forum;
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
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