Traduction de «mine à simple impulsion » (Français → Anglais) :

The very presence of mines exacerbates poverty by preventing the productive use of land and infrastructure, while the cost of treating injured survivors of landmine accidents drains the poorest nations of already scarce resources.

Simply reducing the tax rate from 28% to 21% or simply eliminating the tax credit and adding the deductions for royalties was too little for most of the mining industry (1620) Since mines were penalized quite heavily, it was decided that a new 10% tax credit would be established for eligible mineral exploration expenses, but this applies only to metals and diamonds.

41. Stresses the importance of European Councils going beyond mere repetition and stocktaking and giving much clearer leadership with respect to implementing the Lisbon strategy at both European and national levels, where much still remains to be done; awaits with interest the Commission's initiative, in cooperation with the European Investment Bank, to increase overall investment and private-sector involvement in TENs and major RD projects;

38. Stresses the importance of European Councils going beyond mere repetition and stocktaking, and giving much clearer leadership with respect to implementing the Lisbon strategy at both European and national levels, where much still remains to be done; awaits with interest the Commission's initiative, in cooperation with the European Investment Bank, to increase overall investment and private-sector involvement in TENs and major RD projects;

In fact, the visit gave important momentum to the political dialogue between Canada and each of the countries visited, helped boost the exports of Canadian businesses working in this important market, encouraged the peace process in which Canada is very much involved, highlighted the views of Canada as chair of the committee struck at Madrid on refugees, encouraged adherence to the Ottawa treaty on anti-personnel landmines, and, in Amman, saw the embrace of the Canadian initiative to create a regional centre for conflict resolution to help the parties of the region — Egypt, Israel, Jordan and the Palestinians, to begin with — fortify pea ...[+++]ce and undertake different programs such as professional training for peacekeepers, the reinforcement of democratic institutions and judicial reform.

We only have to look at the leadership Canada showed on land mines to know that as a middle power we can generate the momentum, we can generate the solidarity of the NGO community as well as various nations to work together to produce a land mines convention.