to respect and ensure the rights and freedoms set out in Articles 4(1) and 5(1) of the Pact in the sense that they infer the obligation of the States Parties to the Pact to respect the norms of international environmental law that seek to prevent any environmental damage which could restrict or preclude the effective enjoyment of the rights to life and to personal integrity, and that one of the ways of complying with that obligation is by making environmental impact assessments in an area protected by international law, and by cooperation with the States that could be affected? If applicable, what general parameters should be taken into account when making environmental impact assessments in the Wider Caribbean Region, and what should be the minimum content of these assessments? 60