Traduction de «commission technique des nations unies » (Français → Anglais) :

18. Expresses support for the Environment and Security Initiative, which brings together the United Nations Development Programme, the United Nations Environmental Programme, the OSCE, NATO, the United Nations Economic Commission in Europe, and the Regional Environmental Centre for Central and Eastern Europe, to assess environmental challenges, including those relating to water resource management, and to implement projects that raise awareness of thes ...[+++]e challenges, build capacities and strengthen institutions in order to address them;

218. Notes the UN's apparent failure properly to apply the financing agreement signed between the Commission and it regarding the European Agency for Reconstruction, leaving the Court frequently unable to carry out adequate financial control of payments and underlying documents concerning contracts managed or overseen by the United Nations Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK); notes the statement by the Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations to grant full access to all files at the request of th ...[+++]e Court; urges however the Commission to review the financing agreement with the UN; is of the opinion that a possible phasing out of the European Agency for Reconstruction should not be done according to a pre-set timetable but should depend on economic and political criteria and developments, making full use of the added value of the Agency in terms of expertise and know-how developed over the years, and asks the Commission to bring forward a proposal after a proper final evaluation to see whether the mandate of the reconstruction agency could be altered in such a way that that existing expertise and know-how could be used to provide reconstruction assistance wherever needed, for example in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and the countries affected by the Tsunami, as a second stage after immediate humanitarian needs have been addressed by the Humanitarian Aid Office;

209. Notes the UN's apparent failure properly to apply the financing agreement signed between the Commission and the UN regarding the European Agency for Reconstruction, leaving the Court of Auditors frequently unable to have adequate financial control of payments and underlying documents concerning contracts managed or overseen by the United Nations Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK); notes the statement by the Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations to grant full access to all files at the request of th ...[+++]e Court; urges however the Commission to review the financing agreement with the UN; asks the Commission to bring forward a proposal extending the mandate of the reconstruction agency so that it may be used to provide reconstruction assistance wherever needed e.g. Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and the countries affected by the Tsunami, as a second stage after immediate humanitarian needs have been addressed by ECHO;

6. Is of the opinion that the EU, in agreement with the Member States, should be more actively involved in UN programmes (by taking part at the initial stage, when needs are assessed and appropriate responses worked out, and thereafter, when the decisions are implemented) and that the EU should use the intergovernmental conference (IGC) scheduled for 2004 as the occasion on which to clarify the issues surrounding the legal basis for its external action within the context of international law, and should in particular specify and strengthen the Commission's legal status in international institutions and grant it membership status in the speci ...[+++]alised UN agencies in the same way as it is a member of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO); calls, likewise, for the nature of and means available to the Commission delegations to the United Nations to be brought into line with the increasingly important role which they play in implementing EU external action in general, and in the field of development and humanitarian aid in particular, as well as in the area of coordination between the Commission and the 15 Member States, so as to guarantee that EU action in this field is consistent and of global significance;

The resolution calls for the reestablishment of a disarmament agency, the UN Monitoring, Verification and Inspections Commission (UNMOVIC) to replace the Special Commission (UNSCOM) which left Iraq at the start of the bombing campaign in December 1998.

18. Expresses support for the Environment and Security Initiative, which brings together the United Nations Development Programme, the United Nations Environmental Programme, the OSCE, NATO, the United Nations Economic Commission in Europe, and the Regional Environmental Centre for Central and Eastern Europe, to assess environmental challenges, including those relating to water resource management, and to implement projects that raise awareness of thes ...[+++]e challenges, build capacities and strengthen institutions in order to address them;