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The trade will fail if either party fails to meet its obligation.

However, as Members are all aware, due to the objection from students' parents, who believed that the location was too remote, the plan fell through.

The primary focus of the Joint Support and Coordination Mechanism is to engage the African Union Commission on behalf of UNAMID/Department of Peacekeeping Operations on all Darfur-related matters that require African UnionUnited Nations coordination, including in relation to the coordination of reporting/messaging to the Security Council and the African Union Peace and Security Council, troop- and police-contributing countries, donors, the diplomatic community and the press, as well as the coordination of any outstanding matters related to deployment/rotations, recruitment of senior staff and support to the tripartite mechanism as necessary.

(b) as Controlling Officer for the $100 million allocated to the Harbour Fest event, when three memoranda of understanding were signed with AmCham, failed to ensure that they contained provisions (i) requiring the Government to be consulted and its approval sought on any major changes to the programme and the budget of the event; (ii) requiring periodic reports to be made to the Government on the development and progress of the event; (iii) entitling the Government to have access to all accounts, contracts and records of the event; and (iv) for the refund of the advance payments if no agreement was reached and the event was not held, and to ascertain whether AmCham was in a financial position to meet its obligations under the memoranda

For the Western Harbour Crossing to go wrong will, I think, raise substantial questions in the minds of potential investors about whether Hong Kong can continue to practise BOT projects and private sector investment in the infrastructure in the future as well as it has in the past.

(c) as Controlling Officer for the $100 million allocated to the Harbour Fest event, failed to ensure that the sponsorship agreement signed with AmCham contained provision (i) for refund of the payments already advanced if the event was not held; (ii) requiring AmCham to make periodic reports to the Government on the development and progress of the event; and (iii) requiring AmCham to consult the Government on the ticket pricing strategy

Mr Joseph CHOW expressed the strong dissatisfaction of NDC members that the work project of constructing a major civic centre in the North District, which was already thoroughly planned during the Regional Council era, was abandoned because of the dissolution of the two municipal councils.

[...] [...] blamed for the unsuccessful outcome.

It was only after the Honourable SZETO Wah and I inquired into the reasons in this Council that we were told that the improvement works would be terminated should the costs exceed the prescribed ceiling, that is, $36 million for secondary schools and $32 million for primary schools.

Mr CHIM was concerned that a listed corporation might be accused of failing to disclose the negotiation on a major purchase, but if the transaction had failed to materialize, the listed corporation might be accused of fabricating false information to manipulate stock prices.

If the merger attempt fails, the prospects of fare reduction would be grim indeed and no one knows when a fare reduction can take place and how the burden of train passengers can be eased and they do not have to pay expensive fares anymore.

I would like to quote the termination of this development plan as an example to illustrate that, if the Government is willing to make flexible arrangements, and to sit down and discuss unhurriedly with the proponents, instead of saying that nothing can be done once problems are found, or not hesitating to drop the development plan, the district will not be deprived of opportunities for development for no reason.

The report summarizes the Special Rapporteur’s observations and the information that he gathered during the field missions, with reports, interviews, briefing papers and other documents gathered by non-governmental organizations, United Nations offices and numerous other reliable sources.