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1. In its statement of 3 August 2005 on the coup in Mauritania, the EU reiterated its condemnation of all attempts to seize power by force, and called for respect for democracy and a return to constitutional order.
2. Since their effect was largely dependent on whether the relevant staff would seize the opportunity of leaving the company, they were not sufficient to compensate the significant costs of Tieliikelaitos’ overstaffing.
3. Rather, the capital injection was made in order to enable the Landesbank to increase its capital in the light of the tighter rules on core capital/own resources ratios introduced on 30 June 93 so as to avoid an otherwise necessary reduction in its business volume/risk assets and (in addition) to enable it to expand in future. This conscious economic calculation by the Land as joint owner also enabled LSH to seize future opportunities in its competitive business.
4. in view of prosecutions potentially being brought by the relevant States under the conditions in Article 12, arrest, detain and transfer persons who have committed, or are suspected of having committed, acts of piracy or armed robbery in the areas where it is present and seize the vessels of the pirates or armed robbers or the vessels caught following an act of piracy or an armed robbery and which are in the hands of the pirates, as well as the goods on board;
5. in view of prosecutions potentially being brought by the relevant States under the conditions in Article 12, arrest, detain and transfer persons suspected of intending, as referred to in Articles 101 and 103 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, to commit, committing or having committed acts of piracy or armed robbery in the areas where it is present and seize the vessels of the pirates or armed robbers or the vessels caught following an act of piracy or an armed robbery and which are in the hands of the pirates or armed robbers, as well as the property on board;’;