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Message from Kaka Slank: Stop mining on small islands. Save Bangka – North Sulawesi! – Video

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Emirates vents over Persian Gulf islands

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Published: Sept. 30, 2013 at 12:22 PM

UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 30 (UPI) -- The Emirati government called on the international community to pressure Iran to settle issues related to disputed islands in the Persian Gulf.

Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan, foreign minister for the United Arab Emirates, told the U.N. General Assembly during its annual meeting his country had sovereignty over Abu Musa and the Greater and Lesser Tunbs, three islands in the Persian Gulf.

The Gulf Cooperation Council in 2010 ruled the United Arab Emirates has ownership of the islands near important shipping lanes in the Strait of Hormuz. Iran, which isn't a GCC member, denied any wrongdoing in its claims to the tiny Persian Gulf islands.

Nahyan said his government regrets the "continued Iranian occupation."

"We, therefore, call upon the international community to urge Iran to respond to the repeated peaceful, sincere calls of the United Arab Emirates for a just settlement of this issue, either through direct, serious negotiations or by referral to the International Court of Justice," he said in his Saturday address.

Iran seized the islands in the 1970s.

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Cook Islands Trust Business Grows

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Cook Islands Trust Business Grows

LawFuel.co.nz - The Law News Site - The Cook Islands is on the trust comeback trail looking for work from New Zealand, Australia and China as it produces newproducts and services focused on its reputation as a trust, rather than a tax haven.

New laws relating to captive insurance products and private foundations are the standard-bearers for a country that wasonce black-listed by the OECD for its involvement in tax-driven trust deals.

The Cooks' relatively new Financial Services Development Authority, set up to develop new products and services for the islands' half dozen trust companies, is focused on developing new business, but has no interest in providing tax-focused trust work says the FSDA's CEO, Jennifer Davis.

"Things may have been tax-driven earlier,but now the loopholes are closed," she told LawFuel. But even if they were not, the Cookshave no interest in developing tax-driven trust work.

The infamous winebox affair involving former merchant bank Fay Richwhite andothers and brought to the public's notice by MP Winston Peters, was something driven out of New Zealand's tax law rather thananything dreamed up by Cook Islands trust personnel, she said.

The long-running winebox enquiry and political and economic ramifications of it were widespread, including the blacklisting of theCook Islands by the OECD, a list that saw the Cooks emerge in 2003/04. They have no intention of going back to the bad old, taxdays."Our focus is Asia and also NZ and Australia because its a new, diversificationi for new client markets and services," Ms Davis said.

A US-trained lawyer with a bachelor of science from Cornell and an MBA from Notre Dame and a Juris Doctor from Fordham, Ms Davis iswell experienced in trust and business law internationally.

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Shetland Islands helicopter accident: helicopter crashes into water, four dead – Video

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