AMSA - Titles Of PMP.5 Circulars of Pollution from Ships, 1973 as modified by the Protocol of 1978 relating thereto Optional Annex V - Acceptance by the government of equador 31.7.90. http://imo.amsa.gov.au/public/circular-titles/pmp5.html
Extractions: Please note Acrobat Reader is needed to open the linked files. PMP.5 CIRCULARS TITLES International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, 1973 as modified by the Protocol of 1978 relating thereto - Optional Annex V - Acceptance by India and Cape Verde 19.8.03 International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, 1973 as modified by the Protocol of 1978 relating thereto - Optional Annex V - Succession by Serbia and Montenegro 24.3.03 International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, 1973 as modified by the Protocol of 1978 relating thereto - Optional Annex V - Acceptance by Bangladesh and Namibia 23.3.03 International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, 1973 as modified by the Protocol of 1978 relating thereto - Optional Annex V - Acceptance by Guinea and Iran 10.12.02 International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, 1973 as modified by the Protocol of 1978 relating thereto - Optional Annex V - Acceptance by Sierra Leone and Nigeria 23.7.02
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International Finance Corporation - Summary Of Project Information In 1992, after suffering from years of neglect under government ownership, Continentalwas sold to equador, an Angolan company incorporated in 1989. http://ifcln1.ifc.org/ifcext/africa.nsf/Content/SelectedProject?OpenDocument&UNI
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Extractions: Posted May 1999 also in Italian 1999 is proving to be a busy year for the SEAGA programme with many training workshops planned in Africa and Europe, as well as activities in Latin America. Preliminary contacts were established with the "Escuela de Gestión para el Desarrollo Local Sostenible" from the Facultad de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales of the Universidad Politécnica Salesiana based in Quito to assist them in the design of their postgraduate programme on Applied Anthropology. A further SEAGA training will be held in Malaga, Spain from 31 May - 11 June 1999. The Workshop has been organized by the FAO Regional Office for Europe (REU) and SDWW in collaboration with the Consejeria de Agricultura y Pesca de Andalucia, Spain. The main objective of this Workshop is to build national capacity among participants from the European Region in the Socioeconomic and Gender Analysis (SEAGA) with a view to future dissemination by: providing participants with a sound background on the SEAGA methodology, and strengthening skills needed for socioeconomic and gender analysis in a learning environment;
Deputy Prime Minister, Hon His MajestyÂ’s government has approved the appointment of Mr. Jose Ramon Barano Madrid,he has served overseas as Trade Commissioner in equador, Austria and http://www.pmo.gov.to/gpr19july.html
Extractions: Deputy Prime Minister, Hon. Tevita Poasi Tupou addressed Tonga Government Civil Service Reform In a Press Conference with the media in Tonga last week regarding the "Civil Service Reform" which Government is currently undergoing, the Deputy Prime Minister, the Hon. Tevita Poasi Tupou has corrected the misconception allegation claiming the layoff of 800 Civil Servants this Financial year. "This is totally false and Government has no intention of implementing such means while conducting this reform". "Government found out throughout the years that the total cost of salaries for the Civil Service has become quite large. Up to this year for instance, Government is T$36.6m for salaries out of a total budget excluding donor assistance, of T$85 m. In general, 45% of the total budget goes to salaries for Civil Service. There are 4188 established Civil Servants and 922 daily paid labourers. Given the limitation of our resources, Government has endorsed plans to make better use of our finances by rationalizing the Civil Service. In doing so firstly, we identify the core functions of Government and then the staff necessary for executing these functions. Among this core functions noted by the Deputy Prime Minister are: Maintaining law and order Improving the basic social services (health and education) Protection of vulnerable people Protecting the environment The Deputy Prime Minister went on to say that the work has already been initiated last year and handled by the Government Civil Service Reform Committee, which is chaired by the Deputy Prime Minister himself.
Government Calls For Abstinence But Temptation Is Overpowering government Calls for Abstinence But Temptation Is Overpowering. the west coast, Malpequesfrom Prince Edward Islands in the east), and from below the equador. http://www.metnews.com/articles/2004/reminiscing042204.htm
Extractions: Metropolitan News-Enterprise Thursday, April 22, 2004 Page 14 REMINISCING (Column) Government Calls for Abstinence but Temptation Is Overpowering By ROGER M. GRACE Oysters, a food enjoyed in ancient times and popular in America since colonial days, are still on menus. What’s ironic is that, despite the health-consciousness of these times, oysters are most often consumed raw—though there are health warnings against eating them that way—and are decreasingly popular in cooked dishes, which present no known perils. Since 1995, the Federal Drug Administration has cautioned that there’s the risk of “vibrio vulnificus infection” from raw oysters. “Although this bacterium is not a danger to most healthy people,” the FDA notes, “40 percent of infections with Vibrio vulnificus are fatal.” It adds: “The bacterium occurs naturally, not as a result of pollution, so eating oysters from reputable sources does not offer protection. Proper cooking is necessary to completely kill Vibrio vulnificus and eliminate its threat.” Yet, the temptation of a fresh raw oyster surely rivals that of an apple in the Garden of Eden. I admit it: I’m an oyster-a-holic.
Bolsa Amazônia to unite their efforts and establish a nongovernment organization for an objectiveto contribute to the sustainable development of equador, applying science http://www.bolsaamazonia.com/eng/equador.asp
Extractions: Bolsa Ecuador Presentation Partnerships Contacts The Program Bolsa Amazonia in the Equador is represented by Ambiente y Sociedad Foundation, whose agreement was signed November 22 of 2000 with the support of the Ministry of the Environment of the Equador. The official representative of Bolsa Amazonia Equador : Jorge Albán Gómez. President of Ambiente y Sociedad Foundation, former-undersecretary of the Ministry of the Environment and the Ministry of Mines and Energy. Login: Password:
Equador Eruption Cut Short For Nytsa@ursula; Fri, 11 Feb 2000 05 equador Eruption Cut Short for nytsa@ursula; Fri, 11 Feb 2000 052458 of thousandspoured into the streets of Quito to welcome the new government of National http://www.blythe.org/nytransfer-subs/2000sa/Equador_Eruption_Cut_Short
Extractions: Equador Eruption Cut Short for nytsa@ursula; Fri, 11 Feb 2000 05:24:58 -0500 Via NY Transfer News * All the News That Doesn't Fit - Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the Feb. 3, 2000 issue of Workers World newspaper - ECUADOR ERUPTION CUT SHORT: U.S ENGINEERS COUP AGAINST PEOPLE'S GOV'T By Andy McInerney After weeks of mass mobilization, the people of Ecuador succeeded in ousting the pro-International Monetary Fund president, Jamil Mahuad. A coalition of Indigenous people, unions, students, leftist parties and low-level military forces toppled Mahuad on Jan. 21after taking the streets of all the Andean country's main cities and surrounding the parliament building. Tens of thousands poured into the streets of Quito to welcome the new government of "National Salvation." Red flags emblazoned with the hammer and sickle flew side by side with the Ecuadorian national flag and the huipala, the rainbow flag of the Indigenous movement, in the vast crowd of workers, peasants and students. The victory was short-lived. Ecuador's top brassbacked by the United States governmentintervened to shore up the country's capitalist class and its political representatives. On Jan. 22, the military ousted the National Salvation Committee and installed Mahuad's vice president, Gustavo Noboa, as president. Noboa immediately pledged to continue Mahuad's neoliberal economic policies of austerity and privatization, including the hated plan to "dollarize" the economyreplacing the country's currency with the U.S. dollar. But whether the ruling class and its U.S. backers will be able to impose this plan over a mobilized population is far from certain. ECONOMIC MISERY FUELS UPRISING Ecuador, a South American country of 12 million, is in the midst of a dire economic crisis. Production declined by 7 percent in 1998. Inflation is running at 60 percent annually. Poverty is rampant. The crisis falls especially hard on the Indigenous population. Forty-five percent of the population is Indigenous, according to the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE). Of these, 80 percent live in absolute poverty. Ecuador's economic crisis is a symptom of the general capitalist crisis raging across wide regions of Latin America. Colombia is facing depression-level conditions. BrazilLatin America's largest economyfaced a currency devaluation in 1999, sending prices of imported goods soaring. This crisis is magnified by the "neoliberal" economic policies that the IMF dictates to the political regimes in Latin America. Under these policies, subsidies of food, electricity and gas must be cut. State services and industries must be privatized. Tariffs that protect local industry from penetration by the world's biggest imperialist powers must be dropped. In 1996, Ecuadorian President Abdala Bucaram tried to impose these policies in Ecuador. In 1997, he was ousted after mass demonstrations. Mahuad took over the presidency in 1998. His attempts to impose the same neoliberal economic regime brought into motion the same social forces that toppled Bucaram. The movement to oust Mahuad opened on Jan. 6, when the Patriotic Front (FP) launched demonstrations in Quito aimed at forcing Mahuad's government out and reversing the neoliberal policies. The FP is a mass coalition that unites unions, student organizations, small business groups, women's groups, African Ecuadorians, community activists and leftist political parties. On Jan. 15, CONAIE launched a "national uprising" aimed at bringing tens of thousands of Indigenous people to Quito to force the government out. In the course of this mobilization, activists set up a "People's Parliament" as well as dozens of local organs of popular self-rule. Mahuad deployed 30,000 troops to prevent the peasants from reaching the city. Despite that, by Jan. 20 tens of thousands had made their way into Quito. The CONAIE march won the support of students and other sectors of Ecuadorian society, who organized support demonstrations. Thousands of militant peasants and their allies surrounded the Congress and the National Bank. Oil workers struck to support the protest. On Jan. 21, detachments of the army broke ranks and joined the demonstrations. Units guarding the National Congress stepped aside and allowed Indigenous activists to seize the building. CONAIE leader Antonio Vargas declared the People's Parliament as the governing body of the nation, announced Mahuad's removal, and declared the dissolution of the Congress and the Supreme Court. Hours later, the movement that took over the Congress announced a three-person National Salvation Committee to govern the country. The committee included Vargas, Col. Lucio Gutierrez and Carlos Solorzano. Gutierrez was one of about 50 mid-level officers who sided with the uprising. Solorzano is a former chief justice of the Supreme Court. ROLE OF THE MILITARY The leaders of the uprising obviously placed great hopes in winning over the military to the side of the people and against Mahuad. For example, on Jan. 5 FP leader Luis Villacis met with Gen. Carlos Mendoza, head of the Ecuadorian Joint Command and Minister of Defense, to discuss the aims of the popular movement. >From the point of view of revolutionary strategy, the military reflects the class character of the society it arises from. In capitalist societies, it is first and foremost an organ of repression of the capitalist class of bosses, bankers and big landowners aimed at the masses of poor and working people. The top officer corps are from the ruling classes themselves or have slavishly demonstrated their loyalty to the elite. On the other hand, the rank-and-file soldiers and sailors of the military come from the working class. They are often drawn to the military as a means to provide for themselves and their families. During times of revolution and great social crisis, these troops can be won over to turn against their officers and side with the working class. Between these poles are the junior officersthe colonels, lieutenants and captainswho have often risen from the rank-and-file. Several times in history, as in Ethiopia and Afghanistan, a segment of these mid-level officers has demonstrated both the skill and the determination to provide leadership against the ruling class in a revolutionary working-class upsurge. In Ecuador's "January days," the military showed exactly this class dynamic. Hundreds of regional and low-level officers quickly joined the uprising, bringing their units with them. Troops in Quito were reluctant to act against their Indigenous sisters and brothers. The generals at first postured as allies of the movement. Hours after the National Salvation Committee was proclaimed, Gen. Mendoza met with the new leaders. He replaced Col. Gutierrez on the committee and declared the formation of a "government of the Ecuadorian people. We cannot speak of left or right." But the replacement of Gutierrez was an omen of events to come. U.S. ROLE United States imperialism viewed the installation of a people's government in Ecuador with growing alarm. U.S. Embassy representatives warned of an immediate halt to all economic aid and investment, threatening to isolate the country as it has Cubaby implication, to impose an all-out blockade. Their message was brought directly to the National Salvation Committeeby Gen. Mendoza. In the early morning hours of Jan. 22, Mendoza announced that he was abandoning the committee. He announced that the military brass would back Noboa, a representative of the old political regime. This move was widely seen as evidence that the Ecuadorian generals were never for the people's movement at all. Mendoza's maneuver dashed any hopes that the military high command could be counted on as an ally in the struggleand revealed that the generals, working with U.S. imperialism, only sought to maintain their grip on power. "What we were trying to do was to prevent the international isolation of Ecuador," Mendoza said. In fact, he was demonstrating his class loyalty to the Ecuadorian capitalists and their U.S. backers. On Jan. 23, the old Congress, stacked with representatives of Ecuador's political elite, voted to accept Mahuad's "abandonment" of his office and declared Noboa the new president. In effect, the U.S. government, acting through the Ecuadorian general staff, engineered a coup against a genuine people's government in Ecuador. MASSES VOW TO CONTINUE STRUGGLE With Mahuad out of office, the tens of thousands of Indigenous activists began to leave the capital and return to the countryside. But by all accounts the struggle is far from over. Dozens of the military officers who supported the uprising, including Col. Gutierrez, were jailed for treason immediately after Noboa's accession to the presidency. A campaign is building to guarantee their safety, as well as that of the other leaders of the uprising. CONAIE leader Vargas vowed to build a new campaign against the Noboa regime. "Noboa wants to take advantage of our people's fight to keep helping the same people as always, the corrupt bankers," he told a Mexican news service on Jan. 23. "We will defend our historic fight." "We don't accept this presidential succession," one Indigenous activist told Reuters as he left the capital. The Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Ecuador (PCMLE) is closely allied with the Democratic People's Party, one of the members of the Patriotic Front coalition. It issued a statement on Jan. 23 warning that "the workers, the Indigenous people and peasants, the teachers, the democratic youth and women committed to the necessity of social change cannot do anything but declare our frontal and active opposition to this regime that only means greater exploitation and oppression, greater hunger and misery for the majority of the people. "The PCMLE calls on all the people's and democratic forces to continue the combat against this government." BALANCE SHEET OF THE "JANUARY DAYS" The Ecuadorian workers and peasants may have been temporarily defeated by imperialist pressure and the military high command's double cross. But the decisive battle may be ahead. What have the Ecuadorian masses gained? First of all, tens of thousands of peopleIndigenous, workers, studentshave gained a living lesson in the most vital of all revolutionary subjects: the struggle for power. They have learned in the streets who are their friends and who are their enemies. They have witnessed which leaders within the struggle are the most determined and resolute in combat. Second, they have gained the experience of constructing class organs of combat. The local People's Parliaments, set up in each region of the country by the CONAIE, are essentially peasant committees of self-government and organization. They set an example for the workers and students in the cities to construct the basis for what could be, in a broader revolutionary crisis, organs of dual power. Finally, they have tasted their political strength. The power of the Ecuadorian masses has toppled two presidents in three years. The ruling class in Quito and its backers on Wall Street must be petrified that next time, the target will be not just a president but the entire capitalist regime. On the other hand, what has the Ecuadorian ruling class gained? It has salvaged its political regimefor now. But the bosses and their politicians have yet to find a way to impose their neoliberal economic program on the masses. The economy continues to deteriorate. The currency continues to slide. In neighboring Colombia, the flames of revolution are burning throughout the countryside, with a clear political leadership aimed at constructing a genuine people's government for the benefit of the workers and oppressed. This is a decisive pole of attraction for the Latin American revolutionary movement, and it is certainly being studied by the Ecuadorian left. Millions of Cubans have taken to the streets in recent months demonstrating their support for their socialist government and their iron determination to resist U.S. imperialism after the kidnapping of Eli n Gonz lez. In Venezuela, the people have elected a progressive government based on defending its national sovereignty against U.S. imperialism. The most recent demonstrations in Ecuador show that there is a tide of rebellion sweeping Latin America. For U.S. workers and progressive activists, this offers the opportunity to extend a hand of solidarity. A strong solidarity movement here can both stay the hand of U.S. imperialism in its plans to stem the tide and bring the experiences of Latin America to new layers of activists like those fighting the World Trade Organization or struggling to free Mumia Abu-Jamal. - END - (Copyleft Workers World Service. Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this document, but changing it is not allowed. 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Amicus Brief On Behalf Of Government Of Kosovo to the “unquestionably commercial” privatization decisions by the governmentof Honduras. duplicative litigation in the alternative fora of equador or Italy http://pbosnia.kentlaw.edu/amicus/Amicus Brief-posted-web.htm
Extractions: Henry H. Perritt, Jr. Professor of Law Chicago-Kent College of Law 565 West Adams Street Chicago, IL 60661 hperritt@kentlaw.edu UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK Wood Industries, LLC, Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Plaintiff, Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â vs. The United Nations, The United Nations Mission in Kosovo, and Kosovo Trust Agency, Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Defendant Case No.: 03-CV-7935 (MBM) BRIEF OF AMICUS CURIAE GOVERNMENT OF KOSOVO IN SUPPORT OF DEFENDANT KTAÂ’S MOTION TO DISMISS Table of contents Table of contents Table of cases Summary of argument Statement of interests ... IV. Litigating this case on the merits will undermine nationbuilding activities around the world Table of cases Cases Alfred Dunhill of London, Inc. v. Republic of Cuba, 425 U.S. 682, 727 (1976)................................ 22 Ampac Group, Inc. v. Republic of Honduras, 797 F. Supp. 973 (S.D. Fla. 1992)...................... 16, 25 Askir v. Boutros-Ghali, 933 F. Supp. 368, 372-373 (S.D. N.Y. 1996)............................................ 13 Atkinson v. Inter-American Development Bank, 156 F.3d 1335, 1342 (D.C. Cir. 1998).................. 12
Foei Press Release protesters occupy imf offices in quito, equador. The IMFimposed policies, carriedout by the Ecuadorian government in exchange for more loans, have resulted http://www.foei.org/media/2001/1_feb_imf.html
Extractions: accion ecologica/foe ecuador As part of a protest movement that has brought Ecuador to a virtual standstill, a growing number of activists from environmental and human rights organizations have occupied the offices of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Quito to protest the IMF's role in Ecuador's current social crisis. "We want to expose the real culprits," says Ivonne Yanez, one of the women occupying the IMF offices. "The IMF-imposed policies, carried out by the Ecuadorian government in exchange for more loans, have resulted in more than 50% of Ecuador's national budget going to pay off the foreign debt, have burdened the country with the highest rate of inflation in Latin America, the highest levels of corruption, the most advanced rates of deforestation and environmental degradation, and the worst example of maldistribution of wealth on the continent."
Drudge Retort: Iraq: Our Country Right Or Wrong Are you claiming Cuba is better off than Costa Rica, or Chile, or equador? you want(Several friends of mine have been) but you just can t tell the government. http://www.drudge.com/weblog/004179.html
Extractions: TrackBack URL for this entry: http://www.drudge.com/cgi-bin/mt-tb.cgi/4180 Comments Saying we are not in Iraq because of oil is like saying Exxon or Enron would not gouge us when they have a chance. We are the greatest perpetrators of WMDs the world has ever seen, helping Hussien use them against Iran and double crossing the Kurds. If Bush were really concerned about the impact of WMD on humanity he would fix his own backyard. There is no Hussien binLaden connection. If Bush cared about freedom and Democracy he would have insisted on a complete recount in Florida. Is the problem devious leadership and media or a gullible indifferent electorate? Posted by: Lars Olavson at April 22, 2004 12:27 PM
Workers Group - Statement On The 332nd CFA Report Case no 2201 on equador, involving extreme violence and intimidation against TheCommittee appeals to the government to promote collective bargaining for http://www.ilo.org/public/english/dialogue/actrav/new/wg/cfa332.htm
Extractions: Zimbabwe (case no 2038) was mentioned as a specially serious and urgent case and shows the continued interference and harassment including arrests and detention of trade unionists. As also could be seen in case no. 2081 the Committee again strongly requests the amendment of the legislation that gives excessive wide power of the authorities to enter and search trade union premises including its financial records at any time and without any reason. In addition, in cases no. 1937 and 2027 , the Committee again requests the amendment of the new Labour Amendment Bill, so that the trade unions should be able to take industrial action in questions of economic and social policy, without any sanctions imposed. Apparently there is no political will at all by the Government to follow the recommendations made by the Committee and the GB and to respect freedom of association! We just learned that yesterday (November 18) 350 people were arrested in Zimbabwe. They belong to the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) and other civil society organizations. ZCTU President, Vice-President and General Secretary are among them.
CIA - The World Factbook -- Ecuador chief of state and head of government. elections the which forced a desperate government to "dollarize" the currency regime stave off the ouster of the government. Gustavo NOBOA, who http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ec.html
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Reference Center The Continental offers an executive lunch buffet on weekdays and its bar, the equador,is known for its Irish coffee.There is a new discotheque and a cafe that http://www.angola.org/referenc/r_hotel.htm
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Geography - Merriam-Webster's Atlas Form of government unitary multiparty republic with one legislative house(National Congress 125). Head of state and government President. http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/nytmaps.pl?ecuador
A Mormon Missionary In Equador We were told in no uncertain terms by our mission president, a former governmentofficial (he was always rather secretive about his former career go figure http://www.exmormon.org/whylft19.htm
Extractions: I get touched by all these stories. This one is great and I hope all who read this will be able to learn more about the Mormon experience This is from: martinez.don@ssdgwy.mdc.com Here at work we recently have been hooked into the Internet, and I have availed myself of the opportunity to browse through various topics. I was more than a little surprised to find so much information regarding the Mormons, and their various detractors. You see, I am also a former member of the LDS church. A little background on my mind set; I do not have anything against the Mormons, nor have I ever set out to disabuse any active member of their fallacious (from my point of view) belief system. I feel that religion and spirituality, while mutually exclusive of one another, are a personal thing not unlike an individual's spouse/lover. As such, they completely subjective to the individual, and have no basis in facts, provable datum, or any other quantifiable medium. I would no more want to tell a person that their religion is "wrong" than I would tell a friend that his/her spouse was ugly. When I left the Mormons, I did it on my own; no fanfare, no histrionic requests for excommunication or removal from the records. They are simply a worldly organization, and as such have no power over my own personal brand of spirituality. Any request for those actions would have given validation to any claims that they thought they might have over my soul. I my view, they have none.
