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For developing countries, affordable access to works essential for development such as educational materials and scientific and technical knowledge may be affected by unduly strong copyright rules.

In the long term, stronger copyright protection [...] [...]

A consistently tough zero-tolerance stance against all those practices must be taken.

This has led to concerns that China, Vietnam and the Philippines are growing more assertive on this issue, endangering regional stability.

[...] corruption will require the adoption of strong [...] [...]

[...] [...] negative impacts of stronger copyright protection [...] [...]

Naval vessels are likely to behave with more restraint than domestic actors with a limited understanding of foreign policy implications, while paramilitary agencies often tend to take more assertive actions precisely due to the lesser political ramifications of incidents in which they are involved.

As another practical measure, more widespread use of the various open source software26 products, where source code is made available unlike proprietary software, may be considered.27 Alternatively, some in industry argue that with stronger copyright enforcement, closed source proprietary developers may be more willing to make source code available to software developers in developing countries.

We note with satisfaction that this year’s draft resolution includes reinforced language on kidnapping and hostage-taking, of both local and international humanitarian and United Nations personnel.

The potential for the hardening of political [...] [...]

In L’Aquila, the G-8 leaders had adopted a strong counter-terrorism declaration addressing the following matters: radicalization, recruitment, financing of terrorism, respect for human rights, international law and the rule of law.

[...] [...] measures, including stronger economic sanctions.

They maintained that sanctions were blunt instruments whose use raised fundamental ethical questions as to whether suffering inflicted on vulnerable groups in the target country was a legitimate means of exerting political pressure.

First, as there is currently widespread copying together with low local purchasing power in developing countries, there is a concern that stronger protection and enforcement could mean a more limited diffusion of such technologies.

During the debate on that item, some members of the Committee recommended, that time, the greatest possible firmness towards Permanent Delegations still in debt, and advocated the strict application of binding rules and instructions, in particular the measures already adopted by the Headquarters Committee at its 161st session (22 June 2006).

[...] obvious pressure on hardliners in Myanmar, who [...] [...]

Not all “hardliners” will have the same [...]

The new Tough cameras are Waterproof [...] [...]

While much of the assertiveness and incidents at sea to date are an outgrowth of Beijing’s inability to overcome structural challenges, there are benefits to ambiguity, which allows it to act assertively at times.

[...] [...] that was done by hardliners of the Serb community [...] [...]

[...] [...] and a number of hardline groups that had [...]