Task 1. Fill in the gaps choosing the correct word. Only one word is correct.

Model: 1- b

The Rainbow Warriorsinking ____(1) did not have ____ serious consequences for peace. It was an officially inspired ____(2)_____ operation with strictly limited intentions. Nevertheless, ____(3)_____ the UN Charter was signed inter­national _____(4)_____ have increasingly addressed the problem of low-level uses of force. French action clearly fell within the broad concept of international _____(5)_____ encompassing acts short of belligerency such as “violation of the _____(6)_____ of a foreign State, violation of foreign territorial _____(7)_____, or any other internationally illegal act”. The attack and the _____(8)_____ of New Zealand sovereignty _____(9)_____ universally condemned as contrary to international law, and the French _____(10)____ Memorandum presented to de Cuellar conceded in section 5 that the abuse of New Zealand sovereignty ______(11)_____ illegal.

The French government initially claimed that its agents had merely engaged in _____(12)______. A more accurate description, ____(13)____ the covert nature of the job, would be “spying”. Unfortunately, as Richard Falk observed: “traditional international law is remarkably oblivious to the peacetime practice of espionage”; and while Articles _____(14)_____ of the 1907 Hague Convention deal with spying in _____(15)_____, there is no peacetime equivalent. Many ____(16)_____, however, would agree ____(17)_____. Falk who characterized espionage as illegal but ____(18)_____ in many countries. By contrast, Julius Stone argued that spying ____(19)____ was not illegal – as distinct from the collateral activity such as territorial intrusion. Stone advocated “reciprocally tolerated espionage” for the superpowers as a kind of confidence-building measure. But such an approach is inappropriate to New Zealand and ____(20)_____ for whom, as far as one can tell, reciprocal spying is ____(21)_____ an assumed aspect of their relationship. In the event the New Zealand authorities ____(22)_____ the “surveillance” by French agents and concentrated on the attack itself.

Task 2.Use your knowledge of English law and International Law and law terms to choose the correct alternative and complete each of the sentences below.

23. Two Direction Generate de la Securite Exterieure – the French Secret Service (DGSE) agents using _______ were arrested in New Zealand.

24. The agents plead guilty and were sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment for __________.

25. The parties continued ________ for several months before a settlement to the dispute was finally reached.

26. New Zealand had notified France that it would take _______ to secure compensation from the French State.

27. A number of crimes against international law are created by _______ and convention.

28. France reached a settlement with the family of Fernando Pereira, encompassing a formal __________.

29. The UK Government refused to ______ the accused on the grounds that she was a political offender.

30. A State may have to make reparations to victims for _____ of its agents abroad.

31. There can be no ________ some of the rights protected by the European Convention of Human Rights.