Examples of using Exceptional session in English and their translations into Russian
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Exceptional session.
A Reports to be considered by the Committee at its exceptional session, to be held in New York in August 2002.
Exceptional session.
The Committee would will convene a third exceptional session during 2002 in order to remove the backlog of reports awaiting review.
Exceptional session authorized by the General Assembly at its fifty-sixth session in its resolution 56/229.
The Chairperson said that she took it that the Committee wished to adopt the documents of the exceptional session, as amended.
The exceptional session of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women will be opened by the representative of the Secretary-General.
The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women held its exceptional session at United Nations Headquarters from 5 to 23 August 2002.
At its exceptional session, the Committee will have before it a note by the Secretary-General on reports of specialized agencies on that subject CEDAW/C/2002/EXC/3.
The Director observed that, since the eleventh meeting of States parties, on 31 August 2000,the Committee had held five sessions, including the exceptional session.
King, welcomed the members of the Committee to the exceptional session and informed them about several events which had taken place between the twenty-seventh and exceptional sessions. .
The secretariat informed the participants of the outputs of the seventieth session of the Inland Transport Committee that were of relevance to the current exceptional session of the Working Party.
The pre-session working group met together with the pre-session working group for the exceptional session which had been authorized by the General Assembly in its resolution 56/229 of 24 December 2001.
A pre-session working group of the Committee was convened from 4 to 8 February 2002 to prepare lists of issues andquestions relating to the periodic reports that would be considered by the Committee at the exceptional session.
Lastly, she stressed that it had been difficult to gain approval for the Committee to hold the current exceptional session and urged members to make judicious use of the time available.
In accordance with the General Assembly's wish, the exceptional session would be devoted entirely to consideration of the reports of States parties in order to reduce the backlog of reports awaiting review.
In the light of the increase in the work of the Committee,especially with regard to the backlog in the consideration of reports, the Committee held an exceptional session in August 2002 with the approval of the General Assembly.
She welcomed the decision to convene an exceptional session, which would clear the backlog of reports and allow the Committee to address the challenges facing States parties with regard to reporting.
He said that Armenia had been an early supporter of the wishes of the Committee to increase the number of its meetings and hoped that the exceptional session would help to remove the backlog of reports due for consideration.
At its twenty-sixth session, the Committee, taking into account the criteria of preference to be given to those States parties whose reports had been pending for the longest time, the need to give priority to initial reports and the desirability of balance of reports in terms of geographic and other factors,decided to invite 11 States parties to present their reports at the exceptional session.
Ms. Connors(Chief, Women's Rights Section, Division for the Advancement of Women) said that,as provided under article 22 of the Convention, the specialized agencies would be represented at the exceptional session; their representatives had already provided input for the pre-session working group.
On behalf of the Committee, the Secretariat invited the International Labour Organization(ILO), on 19 June 2002, to submit to the Committee a report on information provided by States to ILO on the implementation of article 11 and related articles of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women,which would supplement the information contained in the reports of the States parties to the Convention that will be considered at the exceptional session.
As an exceptional and temporary measure, the Committee encouraged States parties with overdue reports to combine reporting obligations in a single document;furthermore, an exceptional session of the Committee had been held during 2002 to review the reports of 11 States parties.
On behalf of the Committee, the Secretariat invited the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations(FAO), on 19 June 2002, to submit to the Committee a report on information provided by States to FAO on the implementation of article 11 and related articles of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women,which would supplement the information contained in the reports of the States parties to the Convention that will be considered at the exceptional session.
The Director of the Division for the Advancement of Women made a statement on behalf of the Secretary-General,in which she drew attention to the exceptional session of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, which was held from 5 to 23 August 2002 at United Nations Headquarters in New York.
After the customary exchange of courtesies, in which Ms. González Martínez, Ms. Regazzoli, Ms. Kwaku, Ms. Shin, Ms. Manalo, Ms. Goonesekere, Ms. Livingstone Raday, Ms. Açar, Ms. Feng Cui, Ms. Hazelle, Ms. Tavares da Silva, Ms. Corti and Ms. Connors(Division for the Advancement of Women) spoke,she declared the exceptional session of the Committee closed.
At its exceptional session, the Committee considered the reports of 11 States parties submitted under article 18 of the Convention: the second periodic reports of two States parties; the third periodic report of one State party; the combined third and fourth periodic report of one State party; the fourth periodic reports of three States parties; the combined fourth and fifth periodic reports of two States parties; and the fifth periodic reports of five States parties.
In the resolution, reference is made, inter alia, to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, the concluding comments of the Committee on the combined fourth andfifth periodic report of Hungary adopted at its exceptional session in August 2002 and the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women.
The Office and the Division also facilitated the attendance of the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on adequate housing at the exceptional session of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women(5-23 August 2002), as well as the participation of several Committee members in additional consultations with the Special Rapporteur regarding his mandate and, in particular, the study on women and adequate housing requested by the Commission on Human Rights in its resolution 2002/49 of 23 April 2002.
Addressing the Committee at its 568th meeting, on 5 August 2002, the Assistant Secretary-General and Special Adviser to the Secretary-Generalon Gender Issues and Advancement of Women, Angela E. V. King, welcomed the members of the Committee to the exceptional session and informed them about several events which had taken place between the twenty-seventh and exceptional sessions. .
