Baba Shiv Whoa!

Mr. KUKAN (Slovakia) It is a great honour for me to address this important forum.

The Workshop was organized by the secretariat of the Forum.

It is a great honour for me to be invited to speak before this historical forum.

Palau actively participates in the Pacific Island Forum Security Conference as well as Forum conferences and workshops on arms trafficking.

But CA Tell me about what I mean, I think you asked the board what you might say at TED, right?

However, the limit from the rostrum is three minutes every one of us must obey that rule.

This is the first time that a representative of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) has spoken from this rostrum.

To be more specific, I do see a number of major challenges that this important forum is facing these days.

The following Forum members attended the Workshop Mr. Wilton Littlechild, Ms. Ida Nicolaisen and Mr. Parshuram Tamang.

In that connection, we welcome the practical proposals made from this rostrum by the representatives of Japan and of the United States.

Seminars and workshops organized outside this forum have been very useful and very well attended.

UNICEF will use its position as one of the leading agencies in the WASH sector to bring the needs of the sector to the table in water resource management forums, as well as to catalyse and facilitate the involvement of other WASH actors in such forums.

The Conference on Disarmament in fact is the ideal forum to make headway on all these issues.

The Kyrgyzstan workshop was one of several national synergy forums organized in recent years.

(d) The Baltic Environment Forum (one workshop for the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)).

Ms. Victoria Tauli Corpuz attended as member of the Forum and an expert from the Tebtebba Foundation.

South Africa has already in various international forums expressed its concern over the worrisome pursuit of the weaponization of outer space.

We also maintained a position from the rostrum of this Assembly supporting the elimination of apartheid in South Africa.

We consider the Conference on Disarmament to be the most appropriate forum for work on PAROS.

ILO recommends that the Forum undertake to further the process initiated by the workshop on data collection concerning indigenous peoples.

The idea for the Global Compact had grown out of a speech delivered by the Secretary General at the Davos World Economic Forum.

The current forum was chaired by Professor Cao Xianqiang, the Executive Vice President of School of Politics and Public Administration, Shandong University.

NGO Forum co organised workshop comprising Participation of Women in the Environment, Production, Nutrition Women in Decision Making.

Effective business associations can support the learning process and provide contacts and a forum for sharing experiences.

The Forum welcomes the offer of the World Bank to host a workshop on indigenous peoples and poverty, and looks forward to receiving the results of the workshop in its fifth session.

The observer for the Korean Institute of Criminology stressed that the workshop would be a valuable forum to promote international cooperation.

The CD is not an appropriate forum to address this issue, but since the issue was taken up and mentioned, we would like to make a few remarks.

In other words, we must create a new United Nations for the new era, as Prime Minister Koizumi stated last year from this podium.

The Public Forum, which offered a platform for information exchange with the public, welcomed some 40,000 participants and hosted 66 workshops.

In Mauritius the Day was marked by the holding of a series of workshops, on the Youth Empowerment Programme, a national integrity workshop, a national women's forum and the United Nations Convention against Corruption and youth.

I spoke earlier about the need for flexibility and compromise if a programme of work is to be agreed upon in this forum.

Presentations and discussions at the Forum revealed a division of views about how best to promote economic growth.

Speaking from this rostrum at the Millennium Summit five years ago, I, like other leaders, referred to the imperative of adaptation.

Contribution to the Forum's ongoing work on free, prior and informed consent, and participation at its workshop on this subject

Noting with deep concern the increasing trend in recent years of statements attacking religions, Islam and Muslims in particular, especially in human rights forums,

Further noting that the Working Group on Indigenous Populations is currently working on the further legal clarification of free, prior and informed consent, the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues should also request that the Working Group take into account the conclusions and recommendations of the Workshop and consult with the Forum thereon, and transmit the results of its work to the Forum when completed.

From this rostrum I would like to confirm that the standing commission of the People's National Assembly of Guinea Bissau has set the date of 1 October 2005 to inaugurate the president elect.

The Register and the reporting of military expenditures were discussed at a subregional workshop covering the States members of the Pacific Islands Forum, which took place in Fiji in August 2004.

Request the Commission on Human Rights to support the request that the Special Rapporteur on violence against women conduct a workshop study on violence against indigenous women in coordination with the Permanent Forum and to report on progress at the sixth session of the Permanent Forum.

The Association holds various courses for human resource development at all levels, encourages volunteerism, enhances youth engagement and provides forums for intergenerational discussions.

The Dakar Roadmap resulting from the First Global Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Forum offers another useful model for developing countries to meet the sanitation goals.

Outer space is not a new issue scholars have enumerated at least seven principal treaties covering space and six international forums addressing space issues.

The Forum recommends that the Inter Agency Support Group on Indigenous Issues organize a workshop on policies and best practices of engaging indigenous youth and children on prevention of suicide among them and report to the Forum at its next session (2006).

The Working Group took note of the invitation by the secretariat of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues to the workshop on traditional knowledge to be held in Panama City from 21 to 23 September 2005, and decided to authorize the current Chairman Rapporteur to represent the Group in this workshop.