A deadly fusillade of slaved ACP missiles raced out at the Destroyer's bridge tower. |
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The judge properly addressed the question of whether it was ACP or Mr Atkinson who was the client instructing the company's solicitors. |
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On 20 July 2004, pursuant to Article 96 of the Cotonou Agreement, consultations started with the ACP countries and the Republic of Guinea. |
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The farmers in the Member States are getting a raw deal, as are the farmers in the ACP countries. |
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This liability to the beneficiary ACP State was included as account payable in the balance sheet. |
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A few rounds of 45 ACP ammo were stashed in the grip and they came with a cartoon illustration of how to load it. |
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Yet the increasingly robust civil society in the ACP states had no chance of participating in the negotiations on the current Cotonou Agreement. |
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As for us, we denounce and oppose such intentions and policies, by which the EU seeks to recolonise the ACP countries economically. |
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Yet the methods used in ACP regions more often rely on consensual cooperation and coordination than on supranationalism and sovereignty-sharing. |
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Trade The real problem in ACP-EEC trade is not the access arrangments but the ACP countries' export capacity and competitiveness. |
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Information collected during interviews with industry experts demonstrated that canned tuna production in ACP countries was not a lost cause. |
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Since the Union is a dominant trading partner for many ACP countries, significant efficiency gains can be expected. |
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We have established various contacts with various ACP regions and we all know that some of them are more prepared to liase with us than others. |
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Yet, the partnership has kept apace with an ever changing international environment to best respond to ACP needs. |
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It is the most important allocation for water and sanitation projects in the ACP countries that the European Union ever launched. |
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These last-minute negotiations may lead to free trade prevailing over the development concerns of the ACP countries. |
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As a result, the EU is in a powerful position to impose its views and priorities on these issues on its ACP partners. |
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They are the key to re-vitalizing the development relationship between the EU and the ACP countries. |
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A major priority for CTA is to respond better and more broadly to the agricultural information needs of ACP countries. |
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This will profoundly affect agriculture and small business in ACP countries. |
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South Africa remains a member of the ACP group, although certain qualifications apply. |
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The data from several generations of backcrossing demonstrated that the ACP thioesterase encoding gene was stably inherited. |
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Most of the problems singled out by the Wurtz report as being the most pressing faced by the ACP countries predate the 1992 process by some time. |
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It concentrates most of its relatively limited ODA to the region and is an important development partner for many Pacific ACP countries. |
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In his analysis, Europe is the devil personified while the ACP countries have been elevated to the status of saints. |
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With this new agreement, the EU and ACP States are geared up to better deliver to the poor and to strengthen their political relations. |
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Thus the Cotonou agreement envisages more give and take in the EU's relations with the ACP countries. |
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In the framework of the Cotonou Agreement, most ACP Governments in agreement with the EC have undertaken to provide support to NSAs by reserving an EDF amount for this purpose in the Country Strategy Papers. |
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In this respect, let me emphasise the many novelties of the of the new Partnership agreement due to signed by the EU and the ACP countries at Suva in June. |
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In the past, former EU colonial territories, now known as the ACP States, benefited from nonreciprocal, formally unrestricted access to EU markets. |
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The Presidency of the Council re-iterates its concern with the continuation of violent conflicts and situations of major political instability and crisis in ACP countries, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa. |
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It is also clear, in view of the immense need in many ACP States that the underutilisation of resources is not about there being any lack of need, but often about a lack of definite projects. |
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This more moderate approach is also in line with the Community's development commitments and will enable the ACP and LDC countries which export part of their production to the EU to continue to practice remunerative prices. |
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Direct labour operations: Projects and programmes implemented through public or semipublic agencies or departments of the ACP State or States concernedor by the person responsible for executing the operation. |
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The ACP, a state-owned autonomous agency, segmented the market, adapted tolls to different cargoes and charged more for additional services, such as extra tugs and deckhands. |
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I would also point out that we have made available to the ACP countries the financial resources necessary to enable them to carry out their own analyses and acquire the necessary technical assistance. |
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The areas of convergence and divergence have been identified in a joint report and will be discussed in Brussels on 2 October by the ACP Ministers and both EU Commissioners. |
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The EFP has, however, yet to confirm the same effectiveness in terms of the use of the funds made available to promote sustainable development of the private sector in ACP States. |
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In her splendid opening speech, Mrs Maij Weggen touched on a number of those, very real, problems, that require a response that goes beyond merely assessing the state of ACP infrastructure. |
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Free-trade advocates might argue that ACP countries need to be acclimatised to the world market and forced to adapt to enable them to compete without preferential treatment. |
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Founded in 1916, the ACP is the oldest interdenominational religious press association in North America. |
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This is why we would not be able to accept a challenge to the principles of our cooperation with the countries of the south, particularly with ACP countries, and of course in this context I am thinking of the Lomé Convention. |
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The point in question is not one of promoting further integration into the world economy, but of transforming the basis on which ACP countries can effectively be integrated into the world economy. |
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Three decades after the first forays by Southern producers into the global flower market, floriculture continues to hold out hope for ACP producers. |
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Some producers have increased their exports and others, including Turkey and some of the ACP countries, have seen their exports to the EU and elsewhere hold steady or fall. |
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I am not opposed to that, of course, but I believe that favouring dialogue with the USA is also likely to backfire on us when, at a later date, we have to discuss matters with developing countries, particularly ACP countries. |
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By contrast, and in line with the letter and spirit of the Cotonou Agreement, the ACP place emphasis on development issues and poverty eradication. |
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Following the lead of the Panama Canal Commission, the ACP approved similar changes in admeasurement regulations and retained the U. S. toll rates in effect when the canal was transferred. |
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This, however, presupposes that the political situation in all ACP countries is such that the conditions required for disbursing the funds are met. |
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We are familiar with the issues, and our concern that the legitimate interests of the ACP countries, of the smaller banana-growers, will fall by the wayside is surely not unwarranted. |
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The Lomé system did not, therefore, succeed in curbing the marginalisation of ACP countries in trade: their exports are largely undiversified and still very dependent on the European market. |
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As a result, most smallholder farmers in ACP states are forced to eke out a living on impoverished soils with little or no access to fertilisers and appropriate information on sustainable soil fertility management. |
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Its accession may not infringe on the benefits enjoyed by the ACP States signatory to the Agreement under the provisions on development cooperation financing. |
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At a time when the EU is taking part in the difficult negotiations at the WTO, tomorrow in Hong Kong, the day after elsewhere, I am afraid that the ACP countries risk remembering how flippantly we have treated them. |
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The governments of ACP countries are often criticised for their sluggishness in alerting international public opinion to the serious food shortages in their countries. |
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Journals such as Journal Watch and the ACP Journal Club provide critical summaries of the original research literature, and are intended to help apply relevant, high-quality research to the practice of medicine. |
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The participants evoked the illicit fishing being carried out in ACP waters and considered that the ACP States should be equipped to face this piratical activity in their waters. |
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Admittedly, the wording was deliberately ambiguous since it was a matter of gaining the agreement of our ACP partners on some political points that were disputed and, I might add, disputable. |
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The last straw seems to have been the agreement with ACP countries on the re-export of their sugar, which was subsidised to the tune of EUR 800 million. |
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However, from an ACP perspective it must be borne in mind that most exports to the EU take place within traditional trading relationships maintained with the former colonial power. |
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Even after nearly 30 years of trade preferences under the Lomé and now Cotonou conventions, there has been little diversification of ACP exports within the EU beyond the relevant former colonial power. |
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The amount budgeted for the special framework of assistance in favour of traditional ACP banana suppliers is to be spread among 12 ACP beneficiary countries. |
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Otherwise, there is a significant danger of our only offering the ACP countries a form of artificial respiration and of the aid being given by the EU not having the intended effect. |
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This large measure of decentralisation reflects the goals of association and partnership which mark out relations between the ACP countries and the Member States. |
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The agreements give free access to the EU markets without export duties, whereas ACP markets will only gradually be opened to EU products and services. |
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These products exported to the Union do not come from the OCT, but are imported there from ACP countries for minor processing such as the whitening of rice, sifting, packaging or mixing. |
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The SIA will provide help for both EU and ACP negotiators to fully understand the economic, social and environmental impact of the different scenarios that crop up during the negotiations. |
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The EU argues that the ACP should commit itself to open its markets and conclude free trade agreements. |
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With its higher technical skills requirement, ACP first tapped into Ward's existing work force of 1000 for the new positions. |
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Predaceous arthropods, such as ladybeetles, syrphid flies, lacewings, and spiders, feed on ACP, as does a parasitoid from Asia. |
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Correspondingly, their repellencies against the ACP differed to a certain degree. |
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The ACP is the association which represents licensed plumbing contractors in collective bargaining negotiations with Plumbers' Union, Local One. |
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Participants also identified dependence on health care professionals to initiate ACP conversations as another important barrier to hope. |
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The ACP advised that people could continue to use up dichlorvos products already bought, and may dispose of used or unused products in their household rubbish bins. |
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Under the Sugar Protocol to the Lome Convention, nineteen ACP countries export sugar to the EU and will be affected by price reductions on the EU market. |
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In the present work, a scanning electron microscopy study was undertaken to compare the mouthparts of nymphs and adults of ACP as well as those of the melaleuca psyllid. |
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That said, the threat to withdraw aid to the ACP was not invented by me. |
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