It has already resolved, in effect, to abdicate its role as opposition during the three-month implementation period of the redeployment agreement, and will supply Mr Netanyahu with the necessary votes in the Knesset to make up for any defections from his ranks.

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And yet--if only to insure against catastrophic global climate change that could irreversibly damage the world's human, natural and physical capital--an effective global agreement on mitigation must be achieved and put into force by the time the Kyoto Protocol's implementation period ends in 2012.

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And I think the President has always looked at the first two years as a period of legislation, and at least the next year is a period of implementation and a period of continued economic -- taking steps to continue that economic recovery.

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And, by the way, whether the rules work or not, they'll have an effect on the price and availability of credit - probably raising the price and shrinking the availability, for the period of implementation (at least) and possibly for longer.

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If devolution is suspended for an unlimited period, it is likely the government will start a review of the implementation of the Good Friday Agreement, on which devolution is based.

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Cyprus was elected as a member of the Intergovernmental Committee of the Second Protocol of the Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict for the period 2007-2011 and contributed substantially in drafting the guidelines for the implementation of the Second Protocol.

UNESCO: CYPRUS NATIONAL COMMISSION FOR UNESCO - Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict

The Independent Commission on Banking is expected to recommend that the government should legislate almost immediately for big banks to put a ring fence or firewall around their retail banking operations - but the implementation of the ring fence, to separate retail banks from investment banks, should then be phased in over a period of years.

BBC: Separation of retail banks 'will take years'