Ethnic violence marred the 1997 election as well.

Such scandals have tainted Japanese politics for decades.

The Chernobyl disaster contaminated the Belarusian territory with long lived caesium, strontium and plutonium radionuclides.

Many of those who turned up at the protest were wearing costumes and some brought their young children along.

No effort must be spared in tackling abuses and impunity, which tarnished the image of the Organization and peacekeeping missions.

Singapore had successfully diversified its water supply sources and had shared its experience with the Maldives, where salt water had contaminated water supplies following the Indian Ocean tsunami.

America s financial industry polluted the world with toxic mortgages, and, in line with the well established polluter pays principle, taxes should be imposed on it.

As the Panel stated in the first F4 report, there is evidence that the oil spills resulting from Iraq's invasion and occupation of Kuwait contaminated some of Iran's marine environment.

In the third F4 instalment, the Panel found that the Raudhatain and Umm Al Aish aquifers had been contaminated by oil from damaged oil wells and by sea water used to fight the oil well fires, and that this was a direct result of Iraq's invasion and occupation.