Sentences with phrase «government says the agreements»

Special Adviser to the Governor on Food Security, Mr. Ganiyu Okanlawon who signed the partnership agreement on behalf of the Lagos State Government said the agreement will ensure that residents get LAKE Rice not just from designated sales centres but also from the open market at the official government price.

The federal government says the agreements were unlawful referral - fee arrangements.

Not exact matches

«It is important that we achieve a two - year agreement that funds our troops and provides for our national security and other critical functions of the Federal government,» the statement from the White House, House Speaker Paul Ryan, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said.

Ed Bastian told CNBC it's too soon to predict when resuming flights to parts of the region might happen, but he says it's a possibility now that the U.S. has negotiated an agreement with the government Qatar that should limit subsidies for Qatar Airways.

If they fail to reach an agreement, more than 150,000 jobs at GM and suppliers will be «under threat,» the government said.

He's less hopeful about the Bangladeshi government's initiatives, but says, «I think that part of the key points of this agreement is that you've got some of the major buyers in Bangladesh working with some of the major trade unions and labour rights groups together to push on Bangladesh and I think that combination is going to be a powerful force.»

«Government officials will engage in the negotiations over the weekend in an effort to help reach a tentative labor agreement between the company and the union by 5 p.m. Monday,» GM said in a statement.

In April the company signed a «strategic cooperation agreement,» Rhee said, with the municipal government of Kunming City in the southwestern province of Yunnan, which will aid the company in robot building and developing artificial intelligence capabilities in Yunnan province for the purpose of making Kunming and other municipalities A.I. - enabled «smart» cities.

The statement said the government would be able to stop the sale of EDF's controlling stake before completion, without the prior notification and agreement of ministers.

Administration officials say no news is expected at the summit on the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement or on new sanctions on the Venezuelan government.

The state government is at odds with the Commonwealth over plans to shelve the second stage of the $ 1.7 billion Perth Freight Link, with the federal minister for cities saying today the funding agreement was for both stages of the project, not just stage 1.

Ellis Ross said the agreement gives the First Nation the certainty it was looking for around the government's LNG proposals.

In Cloud Peak's view, staying in the agreement and trying to encourage «a more balanced, reasonable and appropriate path forward» on fossil fuel technologies among signatories to the accord seems like a reasonable stance, said Cloud Peak's vice president of government affairs, Richard Reavey.

«We have an agreement with them where we own the drug, but anything that's funded by the U.S. government, it reserves the right to use that under certain circumstances,» says Mark Murray, president and CEO of the Burnaby, B.C., company.

Rich Coleman, the minister in charge of natural gas in the province, said in a news release the agreement is part of the foundation for the government's jobs plan.

«One of the most important anticipated changes is that the Government is likely to prohibit collective and individual workplace agreements from allowing for a separate unfair dismissal remedy,» Mr Drake - Brockman said.

The possibility of a government shutdown also loomed, though Warne said she believed it would have more impact on Wall Street's performance if an agreement was not reached by the end of Friday.

The government says deferred prosecution agreements (DPA), which were called for in public consultations last fall, will be another tool used by judges to hold companies accountable.

Goldman Sachs on Thursday said it reached an agreement in principal to resolve a long running government investigation into its sales of residential mortgage bonds in the run up to the financial crisis.

Doug Gurr, Amazon's U.K. Country Manager, said the company was pleased that both the British government and the EU have prioritized an early agreement on the position of non-U.K. EU citizens in Britain and UK citizens in Europe during the Brexit negotiations.

May's government has worked hard on pushing the idea that the U.K. could sign a free trade agreement with the United States, but, as the Guardian reported, EU diplomats have said that «while no one can stop Britain from talking to future trade partners, any concrete attempt to negotiate free - trade agreements before Britain leaves the bloc could rapidly sour Brexit negotiations.»

They said their hopes now rest on a report expected this summer from the alcoholic beverages working group struck under the Canadian Free Trade Agreement signed last year by federal, provincial and territorial governments.

The agreement is expected to save Ontario's electricity system about $ 70 million in costs over the seven years, but the two government's cited «commercial sensitivities» for refusing to say how much Ontario will pay for the electricity.

«When businesses get these breaks and special deals from governments, you see they promise a bunch of jobs that they usually can't deliver; they promise a bunch of economic growth that doesn't happen; and then once their 5 -, 10 -, 15 - year deal has expired, then... they're looking to either re-up those special agreements or they're going to move somewhere else,» Barnes said.

The Canadian government has too much vested in having the agreement seen as a success, he said.

The agreement went into effect thanks to some late revisions that Trade Minister David Emerson says allow remaining Canadian law suits to continue, and Julian says have the opposite effect, enabling the Canadian government to unilaterally quash the suits.

McKenna says the Canadian government remains committed to the Paris Accord amid concerns that the U.S. will walk away from the landmark global climate agreement.

Even though I do believe the Paris agreement we signed said all governments would end Fossil fuel subsidies ASAP.

In a press release government officials reaffirmed the country's role in meeting commitments under the Paris Agreement and said France wants to be the first to issue a sovereign green bond in 2017.

This irritant over distant imports is complicating the goal of a quick softwood agreement, something both North American governments say they want to achieve in order to start NAFTA talks in two weeks without a major trade irritant looming overhead.

Early this week I was with an Australian government representative in Beijing whom I have known for many years and he told me that iron ore prices were currently around $ 83 (I think they dropped another $ 2 last week), and that while some people in Canberra were reluctant to say it too loudly, he and others were increasingly in agreement with my lower forecast of less than $ 50 well before the end of the decade, in part because supply has come off much more slowly than predicted, but mainly because they now recognize that China's rebalancing was indeed going to be a far bigger deal for Chinese demand than sell - side research had predicted.

Jaish al - Islam, one of eastern Ghouta's main rebel groups, said on Monday it had reached an agreement with the government's ally Russia to evacuate wounded people, after communicating with Moscow through the United Nations.

And Sousa says the federal government has a co-operative agreement with the Quebec Pension Plan and made legislative changes to the Income Tax Act to allow higher contributions to the Saskatchewan Pension Plan.

The Leadnow community is shocked that the government is discussing how to resuscitate the TPP — a dangerous, costly, and lopsided agreement that the public widely rejects,» said Brittany Smith, campaigner at Leadnow.

A senior government official says Japan has been one of the countries applying pressure on Canada to come to an agreement on an updated TPP.

The company said that to proceed, it must reach agreement by May 31 with the various stakeholders: the British Columbia government, First Nations, municipalities, etc..

Genel said it was working with the Kurdish government on a gas sales agreement for mid-2014.

The Leadnow community is shocked that the government is discussing how to resuscitate the TPP — a dangerous, costly, and lopsided agreement that the public widely rejects,» said

«In your discussions with the Canadian government, we encourage you to raise concerns over the environmental and social problems associated with tar sands production and make no exemption for the tar sands in any binational agreement addressing climate change» says the open letter.

Yet our government would have us agree to sweeping economic agreements like CETA and the TPP without providing us any facts at all, just empty slogans about how wonderful things will be after we sign on,» says Larry Brown, national secretary - treasurer of the National Union of Public and General Employees and co-chair of the Trade Justice Network.

Experts say that those Canadian government sources might have actually been trying to provoke a reaction from investors to demonstrate to the Trump administration the perils of leaving the free trade agreement.

Milos Barutciski, a lawyer with Bennett Jones LLP in Toronto familiar with the SNC - Lavalin affair and who has co-operated with authorities on certain aspects of the case, said he believes the Trudeau government will study both allowing deferred prosecution agreements and changing the mandatory blacklist provisions in the Conservatives» controversial government procurement rules.

But it would be inflammatory,» said Jon Johnson, a negotiator in the original Canada-U.S. trade agreement, a government adviser on NAFTA and now a C.D. Howe Institute analyst.

«The premier said this week that she has completed a project development agreement with Petronas, a proponent that had already told her government that it intends to use up to 70 per cent foreign labour on construction,» Ralston said.

An exceptional case could be a corporation under a federal contract; the US government couldn't end an agreement with Chick - fil - A, for example, over its owners» faith statements, he said.

Although Mr Campbell warned of a tough 12 months ahead, he said the longer - term outlook for dairy was positive, citing the free trade agreement which the Abbott government signed with China this year.

Kraft Heinz corporate and government affairs senior vice-president Michael Mullen said: «We're thrilled to announce that Upstate Niagara Cooperative has agreed to purchase our Campbell dairy facility and has signed a long - term co-packing agreement with Kraft Heinz.

But APC deputy secretary general, Rahmat Ajiguna, said that «Syngenta, who owns the Golden Rice patents, can change the agreement regarding royalty any time they want adding that we can not trust any scientist or government officials with alleged financial ties to IRRI, Syngenta, Monsanto or to any agrochemical TNCs, whom we assumed to be lacking any credibility whatsoever.»

The Sydney Morning Herald reported that the Commission «launched a scathing attack on Australia's latest series of free trade agreements, saying they grant legal rights to foreign investors not available to Australians, expose the government to potentially large unfunded liabilities, and add extra costs on businesses attempting to comply with them».

After previous proposals were rejected, president Josep Maria Bartomeu said on Thursday that Barca had reached agreement with the local government.