June 2001. The Government of India and NSCN (IM) have agreed to extend the operation of the on-going cease-fire for one year i.e. upto 31st July, 2002. This was decided after the discussions held at Bangkok on 13-14 June, 2001 between Xxxx X. Xxxxxxxxxxxx, Representative of the Government of India and Xxxx X. Muivah, General Secretary, NSCN. Cease-fire between the Government of India and NSCN (IM) has been in operation since 1st August, 1997. The period of last extension is due to expire on 31st July, 2001. The most salient feature of this latest extension of cease-fire is that it will be without any territorial limits. However, this stipulation will not, in any way, affect the territorial integrity of any of the North-Eastern States. Both parties have also agreed to move forward with the process of dialogue to bring about a lasting solution to the Naga issue. The text of the agreed minutes is as follows:
June 2001. Guterres said a decision to stick to the 1972 Indonesian-Australian agreement on sea borders meant East Timor could be robbed of control over valuable resources: ‘Boundaries have been decided by simply following negotiations with treaties signed by Indonesia and Australia’.224 Resources development Phillips Petroleum announced on 13 March 2002 that it had decided to go ahead with a $US3 billion project to develop the Bayu-Undan field and pipe its gas ashore to Darwin where it would build one of the world's biggest liquefied natural gas processing plants. The move followed the signing of an agreement by Phillips and its partners (Inpex of Japan, Agip of France and Santos of Australia) with Tokyo Electric Power and Tokyo Gas to buy nearly all of the field's proven reserves under a 17-year contract due to begin in 2006. Phillips had also agreed to sell the two Japanese companies a 10 per cent stake in the field, reducing its own holding to 48 per cent. Bayu-Undan has estimated reserves of 3,400m cubic feet of natural gas and 400 million barrels of condensate and liquefied petroleum gas. It will supply 3 million tonnes of LNG a year to the Japanese power companies. Phillips had hoped to commence the development in 2001 but was held up by a tax dispute with East Timor that caused it to lose contracts with Methanex, the Canadian chemicals group, and El Paso, the US energy group. Australia's share of the royalties from the project was put at about $A2 billion over the lifetime of the Japanese contract, while East Timor's is estimated at $A6 billion ($US3.1 billion). The royalties would be the new state's largest source of income. The deal was also a win for the Northern Territory where successive governments had pushed for decades for the commercialisation of the Timor Sea gas fields.225 Despite the breakthrough on Bayu-Undan, negotiations on the other large project in the Timor Sea remained deadlocked. In contention were two large oil and gas fields known as Greater Sunrise. Phillips Petroleum owned 30 per cent of the Greater Sunrise gas field.226 About 80 per cent of this resource lay on the Australian side of the 1972 seabed boundary. The remainder was within the JPDA. These reservoirs were subject to a so-called ‘unitization’ agreement between the oil companies and the East Timorese Government, which was in the process of being negotiated (unitization meant treating the field as a unit or whole).227 Woodside Petroleum (owning 33.44 per cent) had come down in ...
June 2001. INSECTICIDE PROPERTIES OF INERT DUSTS An ancient technology originally used by Chinese farmers in earlier millenia is now being redeveloped by researchers at Greenwich University in UK. The technology is based on the natural ability of diatomaceous earth (DE) to kill insects that invade grain stores. The major constituent of DE is amorphous silicon dioxide (SiO2) with minor amounts of other minerals. Its insecticidal properties can vary by 20 times according to the geological origin. Depending upon the source and processing procedures, DE can contain from 0.1 to 60% crystalline silica. The varieties registered as insecticides generally have less than 7% crystaline silica. Trials have shown that DE is as effective as organophosphate pesticides at killing insects in stored grain. Once mixed with the grain, it absorbs the waxes on the skin of any insects present in the grain and causes them to die from desiccation. DE is non-toxic and, therefore, safer for animals and humans than the currently used organophosphate pesticides. Because DE is locally available in many developing countries it could be used to reduce storage losses. It also offers a cheaper and more environmentally safe alternative to organophosphate pesticides.
June 2001. In an external environment in marked deterioration against the first half of 2000, the SANPAOLO IMI Group net six-month income at June 2001 was 688 million Euro, down by 5.6% on the pro forma first half of 2000. Second quarter net income, 361 million Euro, is in line with that of the same quarter in the previous year and shows a growth of 10.4% against the first three months of 2001. Notwithstanding the difficult market environment, the Group revenues in the first half of 2001 were substantially at the same level as in the same period of last year: net interest and other banking income was 3,034 million Euro, against 3,075 million Euro a year ago. The strong investments made last year and in the first half of this year to strengthen distribution were reflected in an increase in Group costs, in particular in amortisation. The operating income fell 8.8% a 1,200 million Euro, while ordinary income was 883 million Euro, against 959 in the first half of 2000. The programme of rationalisation and structural cost reduction launched by the Group in June, although aimed at showing effect from 2002, will allow a reduction in the rate of growth in administrative costs in coming months, which ought to be at the levels recorded in 2000. This will contribute to the achievement of the target for ordinary income in 2001 up on 2000. In detail: • Group net interest income was 1,426 million Euro (+2,1% on the same period in 2000). The progress was possible thanks to the growth, against the first half average for 2000, in both customer volumes and spreads; Group net loans, excluding NPLs and to SGA (the company to which Banco di Napoli’s doubtful loans were transferred), were 94.6 billion Euro, up 4.2% on an annual basis and substantially in line with the end of 2000; direct deposits from customers were 104.9 billion Euro, up by 1.7% on the end of June 2000 and 0.7% from the beginning of the year; • NET commissions in the first half of 2001 were 1,330 million Euro (-7.5% on the first six months of 2000). The instability which is marking stock markets has in fact led to a reduction in commissions from asset management and trading compared to the high values which were achieved, in a very positive market context, in the first half of 2000; notwithstanding the markets, the Group managed a positive net flow in asset management, at 2.6 billion Euro, in the first six months. The fall in the markets however counterposed a devaluation of 3.9 billion Euro in the total stock of Group a...
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June 2001. As we have in the case of other genes, to implement techniques such as Yeast 2 hybrid analysis, GST-pull down assay and Biocore sensor systems to identify the H24 interacting proteins. [***] July - September 2000 Measurement of [***] in tissue samples, C2C12 and L6 cells by Western blotting. Antisense - inhibition of [*] 3 expression in cells, analysis by Real time PCR. [*] expression clone - plasmid preps and restriction mapping. Over expression of [*] in C2C12 cells and assay for effects on fatty acid uptake and insulin responsiveness.
June 2001. This Attachment to the Memorandum of Understanding LIGO M010188-00-M/ GEO-E2001-01 describes the operation of the LIGO-GEO data exchange agreement. It applies to data acquired by either Project from the effective date of the agreement. The agreement shall remain in force until one or the other party withdraws from it or a revised agreement is adopted.
