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In the interests of general and complete disarmament, Canada is a State party to the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (for which Canada’s Ambassador Marius Grinius chaired the 2009 meetings), the Chemical Weapons Convention, the Ottawa Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction, the Treaty on Conventional Forces in Europe, the Treaty on Open Skies, the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons and the Outer Space Treaty.

All of the hatred of which they have been victims has not succeeded in shattering their faith and with extraordinary stoicism and admirable strength of character throughout it all they have exhibited exemplary behaviour as prisoners.

[...] [...] development of rigorous capacity baselines and needs [...]

[...] the same legal capacity, irrespective of gender.

The workforce pattern varied somewhat [...] [...]

The Bill reflects the recommendations of the review of counter-terrorism and security powers that previous powers which allowed stop and search without suspicion to be authorised without appropriate safeguards should be replaced with a severely circumscribed power that will enable the police to stop and search people and vehicles without suspicion in only exceptional circumstances.

[...] [...] non-formal competences of migrants; and building better strategies for capacity development [...]

[...] [...] profitably sustain prices above competitive [...] [...]

I/We/Our company] had not communicated to any person other than HD the amount of any rental offer, adjusted the amount of any quotation by arrangement with any other person, made any arrangement with any other person about whether or not [I/we/our company] or that other person should submit a Form of Tender or otherwise colluded with any other person in any manner whatsoever and undertake that at any time thereafter in the letting of the above premises until the bidder is notified by HD of the outcome of the letting exercise and other than the Excepted Communications referred to in the remark below of this Form of Tender [I/we/our company] will not communicate to any person other than HD the amount of any rental offer, adjust the amount of any quotation by arrangement with any other person, make any arrangement with any other person about whether or not [I/we/our company] or that other person should bid or otherwise collude with any other person in any manner whatsoever.

[...] [...] included: (a) capacity-building (training courses, projects) concerning food safety, animal and plant health, including promotion of risk analyses and developing base-level capacity to ensure national [...] [...]

During their visit, the Working Group found that the challenges faced by people of African descent in Portugal related mainly to their lack of recognition as a specific group in the national policy and legal framework; the lack of recognition of their positive contribution throughout history to the construction and development of the country; the lack of qualitative and quantitative disaggregated data by racial or ethnic origin; the existence of a circle of poverty, unequal access to education, public services, employment, as well as discrimination in the administration and functioning of the justice system; existence of racial profiling and police violence; underrepresentation in political and institutional decision-making processes, as well as the lack of special measures or affirmative action policies in Portugal for people of African descent or other minorities.

[...] local oil product prices are always quick in going up but slow in coming down and the pace of price adjustments by various oil companies tends to be synchronized, while oil product pump prices often fail to truly reflect import costs, this Council urges the Government to actively consider introducing a fair competition law and other effective measures for the oil industries, including requesting the Competition Policy Advisory Group to take heed of any unfair mode of competition that may emerge in the local oil market, and entrusting the Group to monitor and study the situation, with a view to increasing competition in the oil industries and enhancing the transparency of product prices, thereby avoiding [...] [...]