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Energy prices to be cut for businesses as part of UK industrial strategy

时间:2010-12-5 17:23:32  作者:Television   来源:Arts  查看:  评论:0
内容摘要:"I would happily go cycle naked around the capital 100 times in a row than go through having my brain tumour again."

"I would happily go cycle naked around the capital 100 times in a row than go through having my brain tumour again."

For decades British governments have refused to take sides over who should control Western Sahara, which is considered a "non-self-governing territory" by the UN.But UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy has announced the UK now supports a plan that would give Western Sahara autonomy but Morocco ultimate sovereignty.

Energy prices to be cut for businesses as part of UK industrial strategy

On a visit to Moroccan capital Rabat, Lammy said Morocco's autonomy proposal was "the most credible, viable and pragmatic basis for a lasting resolution of the dispute".Lammy also signed an agreement to boost collaboration between the two countries on critical infrastructure projects for the World Cup, which Morocco is hosting alongside Spain and Portugal in five years' time.The deal would allow "British businesses to score big on football's biggest stage", Lammy said.

Energy prices to be cut for businesses as part of UK industrial strategy

Algeria, which backs the Western Saharan independence movement, said it "regrets" Lammy's announcement.Algeria said Morocco's autonomy plan was now 18 years old and had never been submitted to the Sahrawis as a basis for negotiation.

Energy prices to be cut for businesses as part of UK industrial strategy

Western Sahara is a mineral-rich former Spanish colony that has been fought over for five decades in what is one of Africa's longest frozen conflicts.

Morocco holds much of the 100,000 sq miles (260,000 sq km) of territory but part is controlled by the Polisario Front, an armed group seeking independence for the local Sahrawi people.The Pentagon spent around $38m (£28.7m) on deportation and detention operations at Guantanamo Bay in the first month of operations this year alone, a Department of Defense official said.

But new images now show that around two-thirds of the roughly 260 tents installed as part of the operation had been removed as of 16 April.When asked about the removal of the tents, a US defence official said: "This force adjustment represents a deliberate and efficient use of resources - not a reduction in readiness."

The camp began construction just a day after President Trump announced the plan, with tents going up between 30 January and 12 February. Visible construction continued until 8 March, with scattered temporary structures appearing on satellite imagery.The construction marked a significant expansion to the Guantanamo Migrant Operations Center - a facility long used to hold some migrants and distinct from the high-security military prison used to house detainees suspected by the US of terrorism offences.

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