When Emirates was setting up these routes, European governments saw no threat from this upstart Arabian airline and were happy to grant it traffic rights in liberal bilateral treaties.

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These international traffic rights will be made available to other carriers, making an extra 25, 000 seats available per week, "some of which are much in demand by these carriers", the Ministry said in a statement.

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These were called off in 2000 because of a failure to agree an ownership structure which would protect the Dutch carrier's international traffic rights out of Amsterdam, negotiated by the Dutch government with other countries on its behalf.

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America has made it clear that, while it is willing to make negotiated progress on the legal and commercial reforms required, such reforms would be dependent on negotiating satisfactory provisions for traffic rights in and between the two markets.

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The alleys were first closed off under temporary traffic regulations but gating orders have now been made by the council's rights of way committee.

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That move sparked an angry debate over users' Internet rights and spurred the Federal Communications Commission last month to declare the practice of filtering traffic illegal.

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