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Madam President, in May 1998, the Labour Party Government of Britain held a plebiscite for citizens of London to decide whether the Great London Assembly, dissolved for more than 10 years, should be restored and to return the mayor of London by direct election.

MR GILBERT LEUNG asked (in Cantonese): Given the recent remarks by the British Foreign Secretary to the effect that the Governor and the British Government would hold discussions to find a way out of the current impasse over the 1994-95 election arrangements, and that "the days when these matters can be settled between London and Peking without taking any account of opinion in Hong Kong have obviously gone", now will the Administration assure this Council that no agreement will be concluded with China on such arrangements without prior consultation with this Council and the people of Hong Kong, and that this Council will not be presented with a fait accompli?

It is overseen by a Board whose members are appointed by the Mayor of London for their understanding of transport matters.

As far as we understand from a press release issued by HM Treasury in October last year, the United Kingdom Government's policy intention to transfer the responsibility of Competent Authority for Listing from the London Stock Exchange to the Financial Services Authority was made following the London Stock Exchange's proposal to demutualize and turn itself into a commercial company.

The London Gold Fixing Price is the morning fixing price of gold per troy ounce quoted in USD by The London Gold Market Fixing Limited (published by the London Bullion Market Association ("LBMA") usually before 11:00 a.m. (London time)).

Pursuant to the GM Placing Agreement, the Company has allotted and issued a total of 30,000,000 Shares to Valiance Special Opportunities Co-Investment Master Fund, a fund managed by a London based asset manager at the price of HK$0.265 per Share, representing a discount of approximately 15.87% to the closing price of HK$0.315 per Share as quoted on the Stock Exchange on 27th April 2010, and a discount of approximately 16.14% to the average closing price of HK$0.316 per Share as quoted on the Stock Exchange for the last five trading days ended on and including 27th April 2010.

The Fund will only hold Bullion (i.e. gold in the form of bars or ingots from approved refiners which are included in the London Bullion Market Association ("LBMA").

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The meeting is a demonstration of the importance that the international community attaches to the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people, who have suffered for more than 60 years under the occupation and practices of Israel and its refusal to abide by its international commitments and its flouting of all international resolutions.

By condemning the repeated incidents of crossborder violence between the two States, in particular the seizure and military occupation of Heglig in the Sudan and the support of proxy forces and armed groups, the Security Council reaffirmed, inter alia, the well-established principle of the inadmissibility of the use of force for the acquisition of territory and made it clear that such actions are illegal, unacceptable and cannot be justified under any circumstances.

Even where access exists, the independence of humanitarian actors may be jeopardized as a result of integrated strategies that combine military, political, development and humanitarian interventions in order to win the “hearts and minds” of the population.

By so doing it had severely restricted the Palestinian people’s access to national resources, and the resulting depletion and degradation of water resources and land and air pollution would have long-term environmental and public health effects.

It has intensified its efforts to Judaize the city, expel its Palestinian inhabitants and support and protect the extremist acts committed by hordes of settlers, thus jeopardizing the security and safety of that historic place.

The Republic of Azerbaijan has repeatedly stated that, despite ongoing political efforts towards the earliest resolution of the conflict on the basis of the generally accepted norms and principles of international law, the policy and practice of the Republic of Armenia, the occupying Power, implemented inter alia through various illegal activities in the occupied territories of Azerbaijan, clearly testify to its intention to secure the annexation of these territories (see, for example, the most recent document circulated by Azerbaijan: A/64/760-S/2010/211).

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At its sixty-fourth session, the General Assembly requested the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, within its mandate, to intensify its efforts to continue to systematically develop specialized legal knowledge in the area of counter-terrorism and pertinent thematic areas of relevance to the mandates of the Office and to provide, upon request, technical assistance for building the capacity of Member States to ratify and implement the international conventions and protocols related to terrorism, especially through the preparation of technical tools and publications and the training of criminal justice officials, and requested the Office to report to the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice at its nineteenth session on the activities of the Office in that regard; and also requested the Secretary-General to submit to the Assembly at its sixty-fifth session a report on the implementation of the resolution (resolution 64/177).

The INEDs confirmed that the aforesaid connected transactions were entered into (a) in the ordinary and usual course of business of the Group; (b) either on normal commercial terms or on terms no less favourable to the Group than terms available to or from independent third parties; and (c) in accordance with the relevant agreements governing them on terms that are fair and reasonable and in the interests of the shareholders of the Company as a whole.