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The arch of the Mostar Old Bridge was completed in August, and an international meeting of experts, held at the Venice Office in September, drew up a post-conflict intervention strategy for the cultural heritage in the Balkans.

During the proceedings, there was evidence of serious flaws with regard to the role of the victims, lack of clarity in the establishment of reparations and creation of false expectations among the victims due, in large part, to the lack of coordination of relevant State entities.

MRS ELSIE TU: Mr President, when the United States first made its Most Favoured Nation trade agreement with China, under military pressure by the colonial powers a century ago, the United States negotiator, Caleb CUSHING, on that occasion said: "I entered China with the formed general conviction that the United States ought not to concede to any foreign state, under any circumstances, jurisdiction over the life and liberty of a citizen of the United States, unless the foreign state be of our own family of nations, in a word, a Christian state.

If the Government put forth the same reason alleging that the Democratic Party had not provided Members with a report which was unfavourable to the CPF, let us guess what would be our frame of mind here today?

5) Early analysis based on results of visual inspection of the salvage hull and interior as well as various modelling and scientific methodologies from various sources quickly identified 15 possible causes that could have resulted in the sinking of theCheonan (gun magazine(s) explosion; fuel tank explosion; catastrophic diesel engine failure/conflagration; catastrophic gas turbine engine failure/conflagration; bottom mine; moored influence mine; contact mine; under keel torpedo; contact torpedo; surface explosion; ballistic contact; improvised explosive device (IED)/non-contact mine; hogging/sagging/welding failure/material fatigue failure; grounding; and collision with submarine or other object); however, 13 were ruled out and focus shifted to an external underwater explosion (moored influence mine and under keel torpedo).

(f) A short tunnel instead of a deep cutting at Siu Lam and "Arch Bridges" instead of conventional viaducts at Siu Lam and Tai Lam Chung are proposed to address villagers' concerns of adverse visual impact.

16.26 A candidate who is unable or has failed to send to the CEO the return and declaration of all election expenses and donations before the end of the permitted period due to his own illness or absence from Hong Kong or the death, illness, absence from Hong Kong or misconduct of any agent or employee of the candidate or by reason of inadvertence or accidental miscalculation by the candidate or any other person, or any reasonable cause, and not due to the candidate’s bad faith, has the right to make an application to the Court of First Instance for an order to send in the return and declaration late [s 40(1) and (2) of the ECICO].

Both controls come with a flexible magnetic attachment and additional velcro strap for secure mounting and fast changing of positions either on the handrails (facing up or down) or on the vertical telescope pillars or even on the nearby tubes of the arch shaped unweighting system frame.