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No country would sit idle as a terrorist organization played Russian roulette with the lives of its citizens. The Security Council has a responsibility to help maintain the ceasefire between Israel and Gaza.

The discovery of a “wheel of torture (in Filipino roleta ng kamalasan)”, a roulette which describes various methods of torture, on January 24, 2014 inside a private subdivision operated by and controlled by policemen in Biñan, Laguna, clearly demonstrates that the use of torture is deeply part of the security apparatus.

The bill on combating the financing of terrorism and the laundering of income obtained by criminal means makes it compulsory to report information on suspicious transactions and transactions involving monetary assets or other movable 7 S/2004/660 or fixed property that are covered by the list of criteria for compulsory monitoring of transactions and applies to the following entities: “Information-reporting entities, namely any of the following natural and/ or legal persons: banks (including subsidiaries), financial/credit and other institutions that are licensed and regulated by the National Bank, including exchange bureaux and pawnshops; professional stockbrokers; commodity exchanges; insurance companies; organizations and individuals entrusted with the management of property; casinos and other gaming institutions possessing slot machines, roulettes, or other gaming equipment or devices, betting shops, as well as creators and organizers of lotteries, totalizators and computer (electronic) games; organizations that register rights to fixed and/or moveable property with the State Vehicular Inspectorate; postal and telegraph services performing money transfers and other organizations making settlements and/or payments; agents for transactions involving fixed assets, if they are involved in transactions for the purchase or sale of fixed assets on behalf of their clients; precious-metal and precious-stone merchants involved in any cash transactions with clients; lawyers, notaries, accountants, auditors and other persons planning or carrying out transactions or business deals on behalf of their clients in the following areas: purchase and sale of fixed property; management of monetary assets, shares or other assets on behalf of their clients, opening and management of share portfolios, raising funds to establish organizations or to ensure their functioning, management, purchase or sale; leasing operations; charities; entities of offshore zones conducting activities in the Kyrgyz Republic.”

Such countries are facing a Russian roulette of conflict risk. Even countries that have had long periods of peace do not seem to be safe, as shown by recent conflicts in Côte d’Ivoire and Nepal.

A series of supporting technical papers will be made available online. The publication was implemented under the direction of Tarik Alami, Director of ECRI, and Youssef Chaitani, Chief of the Conflict, Occupation and Development Section, who provided critical feedback, conceptual guidance and substantive inputs at all stages of the research. (...) Defining risk Economists generally define risk as the expected value or expected utility of some event, where: EV = (probability of an event occurring) * (expected loss in case of that event) (1.1) A simple example is a gambler betting on dice or roulette in a casino: the likelihood of all potential outcomes of a dice roll or a roulette spin are well known, as are the amounts wagered and the payoffs offered by the casino for each potential outcome. (...) Essential steps in a risk assessment As mentioned in the previous section, a supplementary technical paper, available online, reviewed some of the most relevant methodologies available, none of which exactly fits the requirements for a comprehensive risk- assessment framework for the Arab region.

Casinos (including those authorized to do business in Mauritius, with a slot machine or roulette or card games), bookmakers or totalisators under the Gaming Act; !

United Nations A/AC.259/13 General Assembly Distr.: General 22 April 2005 Original: English 05-31980 (E) 250505 *0531980* United Nations Open-ended Informal Consultative Process on Oceans