In addition to providing sectoral training courses, UNEP held several training courses and seminars on environmental management.

In this regard, the Council shall seek to convene alternate sessions of the Council outside headquarters.

In 1994, the Council held four plenary sessions at Headquarters.

Since the closure of the tenth session of the General Conference, the Board will have held three regular sessions.

107. Several training courses for community health workers were held, as follows

The training courses for the print and electronic media could be arranged at the national, regional and international levels.

The Tribunal shall hold ordinary sessions at dates to be fixed by its rules, subject to there being cases on its list which, in the opinion of the President, justify holding the session. Extraordinary sessions may be convoked by the President when required by the cases on the list.

In addition, three substantive sessions have also been scheduled, totalling 15 meetings these are to be endorsed at the organizational session.

(b) The development of a regular staff training course in the management of drug and alcohol problems in the workplace

When the Committee is not in session, the Chairman may convene special sessions of the Committee in consultation with the other officers of the Committee.

When the Committee is not in session, the Chairperson may convene special sessions of the Committee in consultation with the other officers of the Committee.

Site visits were held in Malaysia and Singapore to study efficient incineration plants with post visit sessions to analyse the possibilities for implementation in other countries.

Several subsidiary bodies of the Council have found it necessary to hold special sessions, thus reverting to annual meetings instead of a biennial cycle of meetings, with each special session requiring a certain volume of documentation.

Extraordinary sessions may be convoked by the President when required by the cases on the list. quot

This could be achieved, for example, by way of informal working group sessions that would allow analysis and feedback.

Special sessions on major aspects of international cooperation for development should be considered.

UNCTAD intended to increase the impact of its activities on development through national and regional workshops as key pedagogical tools.

It hoped that all Member States would support its request for three sessions per year from 2006.

(a) The congress could be held in conjunction with a session of the Special Committee on the Charter of the United Nations and on the Strengthening of the Role of the Organization

At another level, we also cooperate with a number of friendly States, particularly Federal Germany, in organizing joint courses for African officers.

Consideration could be given to convening, every few years, special sessions of the Assembly on major aspects of international cooperation for development.

Confirms that the biennial cycle of meetings of the Governing Council shall be retained, but that there shall be flexibility for the Governing Council to call for special sessions, as deemed necessary.

The training programme will carry on in the years to come. Courses will be offered to other groups and further training will be given to groups that have already been trained.

Thus far, three such courses, each in a different region of the developing world, have been conducted, with support from UNESCO.

The Committee wished to encourage the Council to continue its consideration of the biennialization of meetings of its subsidiary bodies.

This situation would lead to resumed sessions in 1994 and consequently to additional expenditure in the long run.

(d) The Governing Council of the United Nations Compensation Commission held four regular sessions (10th 13th) and one special session, its second.

The Institute further conducted refugee law courses for government officials responsible for the protection of refugees and displaced persons at the national level.

Other sessions of the Committee may be convened by the High Commissioner if in his opinion such action is necessary or if such a session is requested by not less than eight members of the Committee.

It was observed that holding the sessions of the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice back to back with the sessions of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs would offer no advantages, as the composition of delegations to each Commission differed.

Requests submitted in 2005 for changes of venue or additional sessions meetings and the action taken by the Committee are set out below.

194. Regular inter agency meetings will continue to be held, under the auspices of the Administrative Committee on Coordination, in conjunction with sessions of the Commission on the Status of Women.

Secondly, there must be more frequent missions of the Assembly to deal with certain crisis situations, as was done in the cases of Haiti and South Africa.

5. Also requests the Secretary General to consider the relative advantages of using available resources and voluntary contributions for regional, subregional or national courses, as against courses organized within the United Nations system

In coordination with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and with local citizens' organizations, courses on installing more reading rooms for Mexican communities and people of Mexican origin abroad.

Appropriate budgets are earmarked for school activity programmes, in which students are encouraged to participate.

At its 1993 substantive session, the Committee on Conferences expressed concern regarding the increased requests of intergovernmental bodies to seek exceptions to the biennialization of their sessions, particularly in view of the fact that such requests did not result in sessions of shorter duration.

Where possible, meetings of constituted bodies should be under the protection of these types of agreement and, when such agreements are not possible, meetings should be held at the headquarters of the secretariat or in conjunction with sessions of the COP MOP.

33. Concern was expressed regarding the increased number of requests of intergovernmental bodies for exceptions to the biennialization of their sessions, particularly in view of the fact that such requests did not result in sessions of shorter duration.

52. Concern was expressed regarding the increased number of requests of intergovernmental bodies for exceptions to the biennialization of their sessions, particularly in view of the fact that such requests did not result in sessions of shorter duration.

quot The Tribunal shall hold ordinary sessions at dates to be fixed by its rules, subject to there being cases on its list which, in the opinion of the President, justify holding the session.

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