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Henceforth, we call on the United Nations Security Council to see reason(s) to consider the lifting of sanctions on the exportation of timber from the Liberian market. That the New Forestry Law/Act approved by the National Legislature in the year 2000 enabling and empowering the President of the Republic to exclusively and unilaterally negotiate and conclude all concessions agreements be repealed; That any concessionaire(s) wishing to engage in logging activities be required to submit a cash bond (amount to be specified by FDA/Government of Liberia) instead of property bond; That prior to the resumption of logging activities, i.e. before the lifting of sanctions, the international community provides assistance to FDA to demarcate the boundaries of national parks, nature reserves, national forests and concession areas; That in order to carry out a sustained forest management plan, FDA be encouraged to resume the annual coupe(s) system by means of cutting blocks and enumerating all concession areas with the view to knowing the stock volume (tree stand) in every concession; That in order to curtail malpractices and to increase efficiency and productivity on the job, there should be a review of the existing salary structure for subsequent adjustment commensurate with the qualifications and experience of the employee; 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 18 S/2004/955 6 .

GE.16-18057 (C) 041116 101116   缔约方会议 第二十二届会议 2016年 11月 7日至 18日，马拉喀什 临时议程项目 10 (b)

The lists of climate mitigation activities developed by MDBs have served in part to inform green or climate-aligned taxonomies in recent years to support the development of the green bond market and/or regulatory efforts in the field of sustainable finance to combat greenwashing and promote the standardization of financial products. (...) b Including: Adaptation for Smallholder Agriculture Programme, Adaptation Fund, Bio Carbon Fund, Clean Technology Fund, Forest Carbon Partnership Facility, Forest Investment Program, Global Climate Change Alliance, GCF, GEF Trust Fund, Least Developed Countries Fund, Partnership for Market Readiness, Pilot Programme for Climate Resilience, Scaling Up Renewable Energy Program, Special Climate Change Fund and United Nations Collaborative Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries. (...) Many actors in the financial sector operate at a number of steps removed from real-economy activities, through stock or bond trading, portfolio allocations, or micro-prudential supervision, which has little direct effect on real-economy investment decisions relative to banks lending to projects, corporations approving capital expenditure plans or governments announcing support incentives.

Following its independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, Latvia embarked on transformation of its economy to a market economy, through privatization of State-owned enterprises, public sector reform, liberalization of trade, and deregulation of the financial sector.11 13. (...) Although the Government’s view is that a favourable situation on the sovereign debt market and conservative expenditure policies may enhance the country’s debt servicing capacity, IMF has expressed concern about the level of external short-term debt, noting that “in order to repay its public external obligations over the next 3 years without further eroding reserve adequacy indicators, the public sector needs to borrow €3 billion (about 14 per cent of 2012 GDP) during 2013-2015 in international markets.”45 According to IMF, the country’s “high short-term external debt and weak reserve coverage ratios remain a source of vulnerability.”46 IV. (...) The public service was downsized from 87,500 in 2008 to 62,300 during the second quarter of 2010, a reduction of 42 See IMF, Republic of Latvia 2012 Article IV Consultation and Second Post-Program Monitoring Discussions, IMF Country Report No. 13/28, January 2013, p. 30 and 40. 43 Ibid. p. 30. 44 In December 2012, Latvia repaid its entire outstanding obligations to IMF, partly using proceeds from an international bond issue in December 2012 which had raised $1.25 billion. 45 IMF Country Report No. 13/28 (see note 43 above), p. 11. 46 Ibid., p. 1.

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2 Josué Banga, “The green bond market: a potential source of climate finance for developing countries”, Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investment，第 9 卷，第 1 册(2019 年)，第 17–32 段。 (...) 6 鉴于这些潜在项目对专题债券成功发行的重要性，希望获得 3 国际资本市场协会，“Green Bond Principles：voluntary process guidelines for issuing green bonds”( 巴 黎 ， 2021 年 ) 。 (...) 13 Nuntawun Polkuamdee, “SEC promotes ESG bond issuance trend via hub”,《曼谷邮 报》，2020 年 10 月 22 日。

Leveraging the opportunity presented by the demographic dividend depends critically on investing in the health and education (SDGs 3 and 4) of the young people who will soon join the labour force, and on ensuring their successful integration into the labour market, with full and productive employment and decent work for all (SDG 8); 15 21. (...) We also call upon developed country members and developing country members of the World Trade Organization declaring themselves in a position to do so to take steps to facilitate market access for least developed countries ’ products, including by developing simple and transparent rules of origin applicable to imports from least developed countries, in accordance with the Decision adopted by members of the World Trade Organization at the Tenth Ministerial Conference, held in Nairobi; 33. (...) We also call on developed country Members to provide preferential market access to all business to consumer goods and services originating from all LDCs that are exported using an e-commerce- platform directly from LDCs suppliers.

It requires all recruitment agencies to be licensed and to deposit a security bond, and limits the amount of fees that can be charged for recruitment services. It also provides the Director General of Labour with broad inspection and investigatory powers, including the ability to cancel licences and to dispose of the recruitment bond for breaches. Offences listed in the Act include overcharging for recruitment agency services and providing false A/HRC/29/38/Add.1 GE.15-09758 11 or incorrect information. (...) A case in point is the apparent unwillingness of the Ministry of Plantation Industries and Commodities to identify possible situations of trafficking for labour exploitation on the grounds that the palm oil market is highly competitive and tightly regulated and that the frequent use of child labour in this sector is culturally accepted.

For example, on 21 November 2012, a court in the United States ruled that, with respect to a payment due to exchange bondholders on 15 December 2012, the bondholders and the vulture funds would have to be treated equally on the basis of its interpretation of the pari pasu (equal treatment) clause of the bond contracts. In effect, Argentina was required upon making its regular payment to exchange bondholders to also pay the vulture funds their full $1.3 billion claim.23 The decision left Argentina with the unpalatable choice of fulfilling a larger and immediate financial obligation or paying neither group. (...) Such legislation has been enacted in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Channel Island of Jersey.25 It will not affect legitimate participants in the secondary debt market but will help address the predatory behaviour of vulture funds. (...) First, there are high gender-based inequalities in the labour market: women earn lower incomes than men; have higher rates of unemployment (8.7 per cent compared with 6 per cent for men); enjoy lesser access to formal salaried employment (63 per cent compared with 69 per cent for men); and earn a lower income per hour worked.47 55.

In this context, we take note of the recent issuance of SDR bonds by the World Bank in China’s interbank market. We welcome further work by the international organizations to support the development of local currency bond markets, including intensifying efforts to support low-income countries. 18. (...) We encourage members to close the gap in the implementation of the Principles for Financial Market Infrastructures and welcome the reports by the Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures, International Organization of Securities Commissions and FSB on enhancing central counterparty A/71/380 7/75 16-16004 (C) resilience, recovery planning and resolvability. (...) We reiterate our commitment to shape the post-Nairobi work with development at its center and commit to advancing negotiations on the remaining DDA issues as a matter of priority, including all three pillars of agriculture (i.e. market access, domestic support and export competition), non-agricultural market access, services, development, Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs) and rules.