He has been Chairman of a Thai commercial bank and head of the Thai national petroleum enterprise, as well as founding partner of a leading commercial law firm.

The growth in 2005 has been mainly attributed to increased tourism, continued strength in the financial services industry, important gains in the petroleum sector, as well as increases in rum sales and in construction.

The treaty will provide certainty of jurisdiction over both the water column and seabed, including over fisheries and petroleum resources, as well as in relation to protecting and preserving the marine environment and undertaking marine scientific research.

98 Figures for 1982 are from the International Petroleum Encyclopedia. Figures for 1995 are from the American Petroleum Institute as well as communications with an expert, Tom Kelleck of ODS-Petrodata Group.

The Chairman informed the Council that the goal of the Committee, which was to oversee embargoes on the sale of diamonds, arms and petroleum, as well as travel restrictions later imposed on certain members of UNITA, was not to inflict collateral damage on the legitimate diamond trade.

In resolution 1237 (1999), adopted on 7 May 1999, the Council established a Panel of Experts with a six-month mandate to trace violations regarding arms, petroleum, and diamonds, as well as the movement of UNITA funds.

The first was the promotion of export-oriented industrialization focusing on agro-processing and other manufacturing activities, and the second was a domestic market-oriented industrialization drive aimed at producing locally a significant proportion of all non-petroleum imports as well as imports of processed foods and agricultural productsThat called for the development of a strong capability in manufacturing, justifying the establishment of a metalworking and machine tools centre, for which Ghana was soliciting support from UNIDO.

By its resolution 1132 (1997), the Security Council, determining that the situation in Sierra Leone, following the military coup of 25 May 1997, constituted a threat to international peace and security in the region, imposed a mandatory ban on the sale or supply by States to Sierra Leone of arms and related materiel as well as petroleum and petroleum products.

During the seminar, legal, economic and policy experts, including experts from the offshore oil and gas industry and relevant international organizations, including the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea and the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, as well as the private sector and academia, reviewed the studies and provided commentaries on specific aspects of the issues concerned.

By its resolution 1132 (1997) of 8 October 1997, the Security Council, determining that the situation in Sierra Leone, following the military coup of 25 May 1997, constituted a threat to international peace and security in the region, imposed a mandatory ban on the sale or supply by States to Sierra Leone of arms and related materiel as well as petroleum and petroleum products.