4. The Head of Mission shall cooperate with the other international actors in the region, in particular the United Nations (UN) Political Office for Somalia, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, the UN Development Programme and the International Maritime Organisation.

The two entirely reviewed methodological guidelines which have just been released, as well as the continuous support to training programmes for observers, will help us to sustain the thorough high-quality work by the chief observers and their teams on the ground.

The human rights dimension impacts increasingly on the European Union’s external relations with a range of countries around the world: the human rights dialogue with China; the dialogue with Iran – though, regrettably, we have not had a dialogue round for more than a year, but we hope to have one again; the human rights consultations with Russia; the local human rights dialogues at the level of the heads of missions of the European Union in numerous other countries; and, specifically, our developments under the European Neighbourhood Policy and its human rights related agenda under the various action plans, where a great deal is alwa ...[+++]ys concentrated and reserved for human rights.

Towards the end of September 2003, the Zimbabwe Government signed Memoranda of Understanding with Euronet and the World Food Programme (WFP) on the principles of food distribution and has made some effort to clarify how it intends to apply the new policy to the operations of NGOs. After these developments, the Member States agreed that the Heads of Mission are to launch a widespread initiative in the main capitals, with the exception of Harare, to inform the European Union’s regional partners of concerns relating to the issues associa ...[+++]ted with delivering food and humanitarian aid in Zimbabwe.

The Governments of the Member States and the European Commission were represented as follows: Belgium: Mr Bernd GENTGES Minister for Education, Culture, Youth and Scientific Research of the Government of the German-speaking Community Denmark: Mr Niels Henrik SLIBEN Deputy Permanent Representative Germany: Mrs Claudia NOLTE Federal Minister for Women, Youth, the Family and Senior Citizens Mr Willi HAUSMANN State Secretary, Federal Ministry of Women and Youth Greece: Mrs Hélène STEFANOU State Secretary, Ministry of Education Spain: Mrs Cristina ALBERDI ALONSO Minister for Social Affairs France: Mrs Michèle ALLIOT-MARIE Minister for Youth a ...[+++]nd Sport Ireland: Mr Frank COGAN Deputy Permanent Representative Italy: Mr Roberto ROSSI Deputy Permanent Representative Luxembourg: Mr Alex BODRY Minister for Regional Planning, the Armed Forces, Physical Education, Sport and Youth Netherlands: Mr Lambert J. HANRATH Deputy Permanent Representative Portugal: Mrs Maria de Céu BAPTISTA RAMOS State Secretary for Youth United Kingdom: Mr Timothy BOSWELL State Secretary, Department of Education Commission: Mr Antonio RUBERTI Member Representatives of the acceding countries took part, viz. Austria: Mrs Judith GEBETSROITHNER Deputy Head of Mission Finland: Mr Jan STORE Deputy Head of Mission for Sweden Sweden: Mrs Marita ULVSKOG Minister for Public Administration THIRD PHASE OF THE "YOUTH FOR EUROPE" PROGRAMME With a view to the conciliation procedure provided for in Article 189b of the Treaty the Council considered the European Parliament's amendments to its common position of 11 July 1994 (see Press Release 7179/94 - Presse 106).

However, the head of mission is entitled to know what is happening in the mission and determine whether it might have an impact on other programs within the mission.