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BY MONICA DOBIE
THE CANADIAN government has welcomed what it says is the imminent ratification of the United Nations Agreement on Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks by the European Union, which should help Ottawa conserve its hard-pressed fishing reserves.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations Security Council has urged its members to propose candidates to the job of diamond-mining police advisor to the Sierra Leone government, as part of the UN’s continued military mission to the war weary west African country.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A UNITED Nations fact-finding mission sent to investigate the growth in organised crime in Iraq following the fall of Saddam Hussein has concluded that cigarette smuggling is a key problem facing the occupation authorities. The UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said that the illicit trafficking of cigarettes had grown, with the trade being underpinned by past custom, especially on the Iran-Iraq border.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
UNITED Nations cultural agency UNESCO has welcomed a pledge by the International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) not to explore or mine in official World Heritage sites. The council includes 15 of the world’s largest mining companies, such as Alcoa, Anglo American, Nippon Mining & Metals, Rio Tinto and Umicore.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE MAJORITY of Iraqis were delighted by the fall of Saddam Hussein, witness the banging of shoes on the heads of his fallen statues. But among the happiest were organised criminals who have exploited the lawlessness following the end of his regime.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
UNITED Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has banned smoking in any UN premises within its New York headquarters. The ban applies to all buildings and grounds, except an outdoor area on the public plaza at the visitors’ entrance. Annan said he wanted to combat passive smoking.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EASTERN and southern Europe countries slated to join the European Union (EU) on May 1, 2004, have worked small wonders in recent years to set up anti-money laundering regimes, not necessarily because they believe this is good in itself but partly at least because EU entry might not be possible otherwise.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE JAPANESE government has appealed against a World Trade Organisation (WTO) disputes panel ruling that supported claims from the United States that it had followed WTO rules when staging a sunset review of its anti-dumping duties on corrosion-resistant carbon steel flat products from Japan.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A SPECIALIST report from the United Nations on the growth in Iraq’s organised crime following the fall of Saddam Hussein has claimed that three million litres of diesel are currently being smuggled from the country every day.

Profits are huge, said the paper by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime: given that Iraq’s oil price is “artificially cheap at 5 cents (US$) a litre”, margins of 500 per cent can be earned on fuel reaching neighbouring Iran and 3,000 per cent to the United Arab Emirates.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADA’S Sleeman Breweries Ltd. has announced it is expanding its 2002 agreement with Tokyo-based Sapporo Breweries to include worldwide production of the Japanese beer in its distinctive 650 ml “Silver Can.”

Currently, Ontario-based Sleeman produces Sapporo bottled products for the United States market, where Sapporo remains the number one selling Japanese beer.…