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4.  As for the establishment of an Advisory Group of experts for sustainable development as envisioned at the Second Intergovernmental Conference in Paris in November 2003 and recommended at the 13^th meeting of the Technical Committee in February 2004, whose operating procedures were discussed at the October 2004 Quadripartite meeting (France/Japan/Cambodia/UNESCO), the Committee recommends that:

1. This group be implemented on a one-year trial basis;
2. Its activity with the APSARA National Authority focus primarily on water, poverty alleviation and forest protection, and at the end of the one-year trial period, the Group’s activities be reviewed by means of an analysis report. Such an assessment should provide a basis for a final position to be taken regarding its operation;
3. The ICC secretariat reserves the right to ask this group to take on certain issues and assignments, which were initially submitted to the ICC.