Numerous trips to a wide range of locations, an expanded and much improved website and a highly responsive telephone contact process are to be commended.

With respect to indigenous peoples in initial contact, it should be clearly understood that contact processes do not cause these peoples to lose their rights to lands and territories.

They say that physical contact helps the healing process.

The cell materials in contact with process solutions must be corrosion resistant to concentrated hydrochloric acid solutions.

All surfaces that come into contact with the process gas are wholly made of, or lined with, UF6-resistant materials.

Such monitoring could be based on the preparation and updating of studies and reports on the situation of indigenous peoples in isolation and in initial contact in relation to the exercise of human rights and to threats and aggression against them, as well as ongoing monitoring of advances or retreats in the contact processes of peoples in initial contact.

Multicultural societies are the outcome of lengthy historical processes involving contact between peoples, cultures and religions.

The full participation and support of the Contact Group in this process will be crucial.

The items listed in this section either come into direct contact with the UF6 process gas or directly control the flow within the cascade. All surfaces that come into contact with the process gas are wholly made of, or protected by, UF6-resistant materials.

In addition, UNMOVIC is in the process of contacting the manufacturers of the equipment to determine whether they would be willing to buy it back.