{"id":235,"date":"2009-03-04T05:43:03","date_gmt":"2009-03-04T11:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/itn.mattrock.ca\/2009\/03\/04\/itn-newsletter-march-2009\/"},"modified":"2010-10-12T09:35:35","modified_gmt":"2010-10-12T14:35:35","slug":"itn-newsletter-march-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/2009\/03\/04\/itn-newsletter-march-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"ITN Newsletter March 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/ITN_March_2009_Issue.pdf\"><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips60'>ITN<\/span> March 2009<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In this issue: Meg Kinnear elected as Secretary-General of <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips18'>ICSID<\/span>; Tribunal rebuffs defense of necessity in recently published award: National Grid p.l.c. v. 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