15. Complete the sentences with your own words.

Example: _________ whether I feel better or not.

I have to go to work tomorrow whether I feel better or not.

1. Getting that job depends on whether or not _______.

2. ________ whether you want me to or not.

3. I’m really angry! Maybe he’ll apologize, and maybe he won’t. It doesn’t matter.

4. I’m going to ______ whether ______ or not.

16. Choose the correct form of the verb in brackets to complete the following sentences. Nuclear, chemical and biological weapons

Although no treaty specifically prohibits the use of nuclear weapons, it is widely agreed that IHL ___(1)____ (to apply) equally to their use. The International Court of Justice ____(2)____ (to hold), unanimously, that IHL applies to the threat or ____(3)____ (to use) of nuclear weapons, but _____(4)____ (to decide), although only by the casting vote of its President, that it ____(5)____ (can not) “conclude definitively whether the threat or use of nuclear weapons would be lawful or unlawful in an extreme circumstance of self-defense, in which the very survival of a state would ____(6)____ (to be at stake)”. The Court does not appear to _____(7)____ (to consider) the possibility that in certain exceptional situations the threat or even use of nuclear weapons might _____(8)____ (to do) altruistically to support demands by it or the United Nations for the observance of fundamental human rights, such as the prohibitions on genocide or, indeed, the use of other weapons of mass destruction against a third state. The advisory opinion may _____(9)____ (not to weigh) that heavily with a state that feels that morally it _____(10)____ (to have) no choice but to use a nuclear weapon, however terrible that would ____(11)____ (to be).

17. Translate the following sentences into English.

1. Гуманітарне право передбачає участь як регулярних так і не регулярних військових сил у конфліктах.

2. Всі учасники збройних конфліктів, як представники держав так і недержавні об’єднання, обмежені міжнародним гуманітарним правом.

3. Один з основних принципів міжнародного гуманітарного права, будь-то невоююча сторона чи військовополонені, хворі чи поранені особи, повинні утримуватися гуманно.

Section d Listening

Pre-listening task

18. You are going to hear the text about “International Committee of the Red Cross” ( icrc), one of the most important organization of the ihl.

Read new words and try to memorize them.

1. endeavour	намагатися, докладати зусиль, прагнення
2. disturbance	заколот, заворушення, порушення порядку
3. emergency	надзвичайний стан, крайня необхідність
4. artificial limbs	штучні кінцівки, протези
5. bore	свердловина
6. pumping	викачування води
7. nutrition	харчування
8. dissemination	розповсюдження
9. be tailored	спеціально пристосовані
10. synergic relationship	взаємне посилення взаємовідносин
11. incumbent on	доручений, покладений на
12. take cognizance of	помітити, звернути увагу на
13. deem	гадати, вважати
14. denounce	оголошувати недійсним
15. exception	виняток