At the conclusion of the meeting, the 34 participants adopted a Declaration by consensus.

Participants agreed that other United Nations agencies also needed to be involved, as did treaty bodies, in order to ensure coherence.

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The participants at the conference unanimously called for the strengthening of existing disarmament related treaties and conventions.

There was a consensus that the ISO 14001 standard should not become mandatory.

Several participants agreed that draft reports should be available on the website.

All the participants agreed that there could be no military solution to the conflict.

Hence, agreement was reached concerning removal of the reservation to paragraph 2 of the article.

It was further suggested that the regime of the draft instrument should be in line with common trade practices in this field.

22. The participants agreed that the meeting should reiterate the basic principles which guided their work.

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There was consensus among the participants that it was inappropriate for the Commission to request a special rapporteur to amend his report.

It was generally agreed that the procedure for requesting visits should follow diplomatic channels.

14. All participants agreed on the urgent need for action to address the sexual exploitation of children.

It was further indicated that the one way mandatory approach was compatible with the freedom for the shipper to increase its liability limits.

All participants agreed that the most important cooperation for the work of special procedures was with States.

It was agreed that this requirement should continue only until the time for review under article 52 of the Model Law had elapsed.

There was a unanimous decision to establish a Task Force on Collection and Reporting of Foreign Direct Investment Statistics in Africa among participants.

The participants frequently cited your message during the Conference and it was an important factor in building consensus on the results of the Conference.

It was generally agreed that one of the core functions of OHCHR was to cooperate with and support the work of the special procedures.

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There was general agreement that the point needed further clarification in the text of draft article 88a (5) or of draft article 8.

In concluding the workshop, the Chair noted broad agreement among participants that the intergovernmental process faced serious problems that needed to be addressed urgently.

25. The participants unanimously agreed that the suit against the Special Rapporteur was a threat to the entire special procedures system.

Any decision reached within the forum would have to be agreed upon by all three participants.

He therefore called on the relevant actors to ensure that macroeconomic strategies matched the social dimensions of development.

One participant proposed bringing paragraph 2 into line with article 12 of the Convention against Torture and emphasized that an investigation should be held even where there was no formal complaint.

Participants generally agreed that the basis for cooperation was sustained constructive dialogue between mandate holders and States.

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Agriculture Participants concurred that agriculture is a key area of the Doha negotiations, and that a meaningful outcome is necessary.

In line with group statements, many participants supported the idea that the members of the Council should be elected by a simple majority of the General Assembly in order to facilitate participation by all countries.

Participants had agreed on the need to streamline Convention processes and to provide assistance for national implementation.

12. There was general agreement that the process for gathering all authoritative information should be fully transparent and include all participants.

The outcome of the Round Table will be a declaration in which participants express their commitment to the implementation of a specific five year programme of action.

However, it was suggested that leaving the matter to national law could lead to disharmony, and that an effort should be made to find a unifying international standard.

Services were disrupted, resulting in the late arrival of some participants, while others did not participate at all.

He thanked participants at the Forum who were working to change these conditions.

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Regarding future congresses, it was noted that quality and functionality should not be sacrificed in order to reach consensus more quickly on the outcome.

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The participants also agreed that the United Nations should continue to work towards the goal of the Charter being used also for epidemiological disasters and humanitarian crises.

It was widely agreed that Africa is confronted with a multitude of development problems impeding its capacity to attain key Millennium Development Goals.