Regional projects that were politically motivated and did not involve all States in the region could in no way contribute to stability and prosperity.

Recognizing the need for regional and interregional cooperation in maintaining outer space exclusively for peaceful purposes, ASEAN had undertaken many intra ASEAN projects, as well as projects involving other partners.

Reaffirming the role of the United Nations in the field of disarmament and non proliferation and the commitment of Member States to take concrete steps in order to strengthen that role,

The figures are presented for those regions for which the available data allow a reasonable regional presentation.

Regional institutions, including regional economic agreements, development banks and subregional groupings can play an important catalytic role in the integration process.

Research has focused on the regional and global implications of domestic change in these regions as well as the internal and external interactions.

Recognizing the importance of action at the national and regional levels and the role that regional organizations can play in certain cases to prevent humanitarian crises,

Those shortcomings relate to the areas of peaceful uses, cooperation and assistance.

139. Appreciation was expressed for the role of the regional centres in Africa, Asia and Latin America, and for the emphasis placed by the Department on the important role that those centres were likely to take on in the area of disarmament.

139. Appreciation was expressed for the role of the regional centres in Africa, Asia and Latin America, and on the emphasis placed by the Department on the important role that those centres were likely to take on in the area of disarmament.

(d) Act as a catalyst and

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(e) To increase the use of regional seas conventions, action plans and regional mountain agreements as a platform for coordinated regional implementation of multilateral environmental agreements as well as mandates of intergovernmental organizations and other global and regional initiatives

Recalling further that the Charter of the United Nations provides for the existence of regional arrangements or agencies for dealing with such matters as maintenance of international peace and security and economic cooperation as are appropriate for regional action, provided that their activities are consistent with the purposes and principles of the United Nations,

9. Calls upon the United Nations system and the international community to strengthen South South cooperation initiatives, as well as subregional and regional cooperation, in the field of science and technology

Regional and international cooperation in the field of space activities are considered of high importance to speed up the process of the transfer of technology as well as to promote the peaceful uses of outer space.

The provision of 180,400 in non post costs provides for official travel of staff in connection with the provision of support for mediation efforts and cooperation between the United Nations and regional and subregional organizations.

(a) An outline of a national policy for the implementation of the basic infrastructure of transmission and digital dissemination of information, including the role of the State and the private operators, and the rules that must regulate the functioning of this infrastructure and the principles of interregional and international cooperation in this field

The cooperation called for in article 7 can be undertaken at the regional and subregional levels, as well as at the level of the United Nations.

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ESCAP could further analyze policy options for enhancing the competitiveness of Asian and Pacific developing countries' firms, mostly SMEs, through their internationalization, including by developing linkages with international firms.

Reference was made to regional approaches and tools for strengthening cooperation and the coordination of drug control policies.

The major outputs will be the Ministerial Declaration, reflecting the commitments of the member States to regional cooperation in space technology applications for sustainable development, and the Regional Strategy and Action Plan on space technology applications for sustainable development and regional cooperative mechanisms in space technology applications for selected areas that are of common concern to members and associate members.

By advocating and demonstrating new and innovative development technology, practices and concepts as demanded by the countries of the region, regional programmes play a role in providing leadership as well as a neutral mechanism through which vastly different or similar countries may collaborate to achieve national development goals.

Stressing the need for enhanced international, regional and subregional cooperation in the field of industrial development and the important role played by the United Nations system, in particular the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, in this regard,

But we also call for the reform of all the institutions of the United Nations in such a way as to strengthen the role of the United Nations with regard to international peace and security, as well as to international cooperation in the economic, cultural and social fields.

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The secretariat will initiate in 2005 the compilation of an updated regional inventory of space capabilities and facilities in the Asian and Pacific region, in coordination with the regional working groups on major space applications sectors of RESAP, to serve as a reference document for the Ministerial Conference.

This can be facilitated by donor countries, as well as regional and city to city collaboration and exchange.

(c) To enhance regional cooperation to promote trade efficiency and electronic commerce and to facilitate access to information technology

3. Review of cooperation and appraisal of progress achieved in priority areas of cooperation

The Subcommittee had before it document E ESCAP SICST 2, which highlighted the major regional cooperation initiatives and programmes in the region in information, communication and space technology development and applications, and ESCAP's role in promoting regional cooperation and implementing cooperation programmes, such as the Asia broadband programme and RESAP.

The organization had a key role to play in areas such as trade policy, investment, technological upgrading, trade facilitation and enterprise competitiveness.

An important objective is to promote interaction within and between regions and subregions so that experiences, lessons and good practices can be shared.

Deeply concerned at the preponderance of transnational corporations in all spheres of life and at the impact of their activities and working methods on human rights,

However, the overall effectiveness of the set up is contingent on management advancing cohesion and synergy between the substantive divisions and subregional offices and providing guidance and support to the offices in fulfilling their core functions along with a reliable mechanism for collaboration among subregional offices.

Within this context, the role of the Secretariat could be strengthened.

Article 16 points towards regional implementation and to the use of existing programmes to the extent possible.

It was already well known that Egypt was playing a vital role at the international and regional levels in the area of drug control.

That leads us to the role of regional organizations in maintaining international peace and security.

Role of science and technology in the context of security, disarmament and other related fields