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a launch customer for IAE's new V2500 SelectTwo(TM)engine.

the halon to fill the fire extinguishers in their fleets and that some States were unaware of any company that recycled halon for aviation fire extinguishers within their country, and therefore, on the basis of those initial replies, it was likely that many States depended on the availability of halon in the few countries that supplied the aviation industry as a whole, and not on stocks within their own States.

with a series of guidelines about how to meet these requirements in a non-mandatory section (part B).

and South America, owing to the limitations on flights from Canada flying through United States airspace en route to the central-eastern region of Cuba (Caya Coco, Ciego de Ávila, Camagüey, Holguín and Santiago de Cuba), Cuban aircraft have to use indirect routes, at greater than recommended speeds and at night, in order to comply with the closing times of Canadian airports, with the resulting increase in flight time of between 14 and 47 minutes, depending on the destination in Cuba, and increased fuel consumption, making those flights less efficient and less competitive.

for the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20).

entities ($65,300); and implementation of the electronic rations management system and the electronic fuel management system in peacekeeping missions ($35,200).

of the protection of their rights; the promotion of international cooperation to combat corruption; the strengthening of criminal justice assistance to combat transnational organized crime effectively; the improvement of online security to enhance capacity to prevent and combat cybercrime; and the amendment of legislation to extend the scope of legal aid from trials only to pretrial proceedings and to cases where the suspect might face a sentence of life imprisonment.

of past United Nations/ESA workshops on basic space science and (f) astrophysics and space science of the solar system.

Refugees, the United Nations Environment Programme and the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute, located in Turin, Italy.

Shanghai resident I just had to comment on the big new announcement by my hometown carrier China Eastern (HKEx: 670; Shanghai: 600115; NYSE: CEA), which is forming a budget airline joint venture with Australia’s Quantas (Sydney: QAN).

on websites and through publications, conferences and events.

the World Bank, the Palestine Investment Fund, CHF International, HSBC, Azania Bank in the United Republic of Tanzania, DFCU in Uganda, Lao Development Bank, the Palestine Capital Markets Authority, Bank of Palestine, Cairo Amman Bank and a range of domestic banks in Ghana, Indonesia and Sri Lanka that are providing loans to projects being developed through local finance facilities.

services, a leading Frequent Flyer program, inflight meals and entertainment, airport lounges and other services.

supporting projects to provide China’s human space technologies, facilities and human resources to developing countries, with the aim of promoting capacity-building activities in human space technology and its applications.

world: the role of COSPAR in future exploration missions and in preserving and promoting science”, by Pascale Ehrenfreund of COSPAR and George Washington University; and “We lost Pluto?