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A mission from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) visited Djibouti from June 2-9, 2010 to discuss progress under the Extended Credit Facility (ECF), which replaced the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF) approved in September 2008.

Executive Directors of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have noted that incipient recovery faces considerable downside risks given the uncertain global outlook, unsettled regional financial markets, and significant domestic economic vulnerabilities. Well-focused medium-term fiscal consolidation and ambitious structural reforms will be needed to increase competitiveness and attract investment to bring about stronger and more balanced growth.

New York: In an effort to strengthen maritime security in Central America, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and Panama have launched a joint programme intended to prevent illicit and counterfeit goods from entering markets through sea ports.

New York: United Nations officials have stressed the need to ensure that the world body is equipped with the requisite human, material and financial resources, and the backing of Member States, to field successful peace operations, as they marked the 10th anniversary of a landmark report on the issue.

New York: The cultivation of the raw material for cocaine has declined significantly in Colombia, the world's leading producer of coca, but the situation in Peru remains worrying with the amount of the narcotic grown there consistently rising, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has reported.

New York: The United Nations-backed efforts to reunify the island of Cyprus and the ongoing dispute over the name of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia have topped the agenda during talks between UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou.

On 11 June 2010 the first Review Conference (RevCon) of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) concluded in Kampala, Uganda, to the satisfaction of the international community. Opened by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in the presence of over two thousand diplomatic and civil society delegates, including several world leaders drawn from the Court's 112 States Parties, the much awaited RevCon did not disappoint those who have waited eight years in anticipation for this event.

A mere sixteen years after its political transformation, South Africa has proven to the world just how far it has walked the path of freedom. From the lows of its sporting isolation at the height of the apartheid era - under which the Gleneagles Agreement reinforced Commonwealth member states' opposition to racism - to the lofty heights of being a football World Cup host, the walk has not been an easy one. The path has been, and continues to be littered with enormous developmental challenges, among them tackling unemployment, crime and the poverty burden.

New Delhi: An Exhibition Train, on the themes of Sports and Information Technology (IT), named ' Commonwealth Express' will start its 101 day-long journey from Safdarjung Railway Station, New Delhi on 24th June, 2010 and after travelling through 49 cities and towns across the country covering 23 States and Union Territories of Puduchery and Chandigarh, it will come back to the same station on 2nd October, 2010. During this journey, IT Part of the Exhibition in 6 Coaches will showcase the relevance and usefulness of Information Communication Technology (ICT) in day today life of the common man.

New Delhi: The Government will provide policy support to recognize project management as specialized discipline and to put in place institutional arrangements to develop it as an important stream of management studies.