And people's expectations concerning welfare, growth, education and other social and economic needs have to be met.

To be sure, approval of the Palestinian bid carries significant risks.

Furthermore, international electronic commerce presents particular risks for the contracting partners.

Many behaviours involving health risks may occur as early as this period.

Moreover, her delegation interpreted the draft article as applying only to conflict situations involving exceptional risk.

Measures should be undertaken only if they are likely to result in more positive than negative effects.

However, such concepts present great risks in that they would make it difficult to identify the domicile of an international operator.

This new legislation should help minimize property disputes that have the potential to threaten social peace and cohesion.

But this is a dangerous notion, one that entails not just massive risks, but also unacceptably high interim human costs.

The present articles apply to activities not prohibited by international law which involve a risk of causing significant transboundary harm through their physical consequences.

While the UK is entirely free to leave the EU, given that it is a treaty based union, the move carries serious risks.

Indeed, this policy, even with its risks, partly explains Al Qaeda s defeat in Saudi Arabia.

Post modern crises entail post modern risks, resulting in disintegration and implosion of power vacuums, not the danger of classical wars.

In China's view, the main purpose of the draft protocol was to provide legal protection to personnel engaged in United Nations operations that entailed particular risks, in other words, operations involving the delivery of humanitarian, political or development assistance in peacebuilding.

First, article I of the Protocol is applicable only to operations that entail particular risk for United Nations and associated personnel, as stipulated in the third preambular paragraph of the Protocol.

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Relying on States to assess whether an operation entails risk has manifestly failed to protect personnel deployed on the full range of United Nations operations.

Thirdly, natural disasters, referred to in draft article II, paragraph 3, did not necessarily generate situations involving risk for United Nations and associated personnel.

Noting with deep concern the worst drought for decades, which affects large parts of Afghanistan and risks dramatically exacerbating the already fragile humanitarian situation,

The plan includes periodic audit reviews of country operations, which are carried out depending on the size and nature of the operation and the potential risks involved.

It also carries a real risk of destroying the political and social structures even of countries that are at present stable, especially when combined with demographic trends, such as the alarming growth of urban populations.

In this regard, the Committee draws attention to the external factors influencing the outcome of the work of the Tribunals and the potential risks they pose to the capacity of the Tribunals to achieve their objectives.

In potentially uncertain, dangerous and risky environment we need to know very well who we can and who we cannot trust and in which circumstances we can do what.

While it was admitted that there was a danger that exclusive jurisdiction clauses could pose a danger in adhesion contracts, it was submitted that when contracts were freely negotiated there were strong commercial reasons for making the choice of court provisions exclusive.

His delegation insisted on the right of the host State to make such a declaration, not with the intention of relieving the host State of the obligation to protect the personnel in question, but in order to make it clear that such operations did not necessarily entail exceptional risks.

The Special Rapporteur also wishes to stress the importance of memory in the prevention of genocide without a collective memory and a thorough analysis of past acts of genocide, it is difficult to define indicators which would alert us to a high risk situation that needs to be addressed.

The practical management of high risk (adventure) tourism and its potential impact on national programmes and tour operators in terms of search and rescue operations for unsupported adventure tourists is a growing concern.

But borrowing money from international financial markets is a strategy with enormous downside risks, and only limited upside potential except for the banks, which take their fees up front.

It would also facilitate the development of more detailed and specific regimes in international agreements concluded on a regional or bilateral basis, and would ensure the adoption of prompt remedial measures, including compensation for activities which risked causing significant transboundary harm.

Some of the key issues included the assessment and monitoring of cumulative impacts the establishment of a database the development of a regulatory framework, including accreditation and site specific guidelines and safety and self sufficiency for high risk (adventure) tourism.

All policies entail risk.

A supplementary security training course for staff serving in high risk duty stations, entitled Advanced security in the field , will be available in English and French by the end of 2005 and the remaining four languages in the first half of 2006.

However, no consensus has yet been reached on critical issues, such as land based and high risk (adventure) tourism, leaving tourism to be regulated to a large extent by the industry itself.

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There are serious risks.

The draft optional protocol aimed to extend the scope of the Convention on the Safety of United Nations and Associated Personnel of 1994 so that it included United Nations peacebuilding operations and operations conducted for the purpose of delivering emergency humanitarian assistance which entailed particular risks.

The information technology risk assessment is approaching completion.

There are three serious problems with this view.

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They constitute an affront to the poor, who thereby become further impoverished.

Moreover, several risks lie ahead.

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