Unblocking Corporate Governance Reform

They have conditioned constructive engagement on Kosovo issues on a shifting series of prerequisites.

Lack of adequate funding for the existing mechanisms is a case in point.

Thinking of how many obstacles he would have to overcome, I was overwhelmed by a sense of hopelessness.

Such impediments serve only to further postpone the democratization process in Myanmar.

The main brake on development lies in these countries economic institutions.

On the Ethiopian side, the Mission encountered some restrictions on freedom of movement in Subsector East.

There is a need to find concrete, effective methods of preventing, detecting, and removing these obstacles from development initiatives.

The educational authorities have started taking positive steps to remove the obstacles that prevent equal access to education.

The programme is also very focused on the identification of the obstacles hampering the effective implementation of preventative measures.

It also noted the obstacles faced by many developing countries in mobilizing the necessary resources to finance their sustainable development.

The failure to achieve real agrarian reform has been one of the major obstacles to development in Africa.

The assessment of trade in services, an ongoing exercise to be used at a later stage to adjust the negotiations, continues to be a main concern for developing countries.42 Lack of assessment and information is one of the main impediments to their more active participation in the service negotiations.

We also launched a comprehensive process to unify and rehabilitate our destroyed security apparatus, and have achieved considerable progress despite the obstacles that we have faced.

The obstacles which the Netherlands encountered, are primarily related to the level of evidence that is required before a person or entity can be placed on the so called freezing list.

Aside from the physical obstructions, an ID system regulates the movement of people within the OPT and from one side of the wall to another.

In some countries, including the United States, there are major political obstacles to taking even modest steps.

But efforts to tackle health care costs continue to be hampered by widespread reluctance to tackle sensitive issues, as epitomized by the death panel tempest of a year ago.

When terrorism indicators are taken into account, Lebanon, Turkey, Jordan, and Israel emerge as resilient innovators.

In addition to short term policy headaches, stronger currencies carry potentially significant costs in terms of hollowing out industrial and service sectors.

The statements have been met with widespread anger from the activist community, who continue to force their voices to be heard in a climate of seemingly never ending government crackdowns.

These ranged from unwarranted arrests and detention of UNMEE personnel to recent restrictions imposed on the UNMEE military police contingent within the city of Asmara.

AT UNMIL, the scarcity of staff required for receipt and inspection at the mission start up was a major constraint.

The report examines payroll service delivery in different organizations in order to ascertain major obstacles and to develop recommendations for future improvement of payroll systems and processes.

Expressing deep concern about the obstacles to the effective implementation of the recommendations of the Secretary General, including the lack of financial and technical resources for development in Africa,

These same Republicans also argued for government spending restraint while blocking the institutional changes to Congressional procedures needed to make spending restraint possible.

of certificates (e.g. certificates of origin) and to lack of uniformity regarding which certificates are required and which parties are entitled to issue such certificates.

In Uganda, most of our successes have been attained in the face of opposition, indifference or distracting, superficial heckling by quite a number of our external partners.

We urge the Conference to put renewed energy into overcoming the obstacles to achieving a resumption of negotiations on an FMCT.

The US political system s persistently low approval ratings stem in part from the fact that it seems to reward obstructionism rather than constructive bipartisan action.

In some countries, reduced or lack of access to legal aid or to appropriate interpreters prevented or undermined effective presentation of cases.

Not even the Secretary General's appointment, in 1997, of a Personal Envoy for Western Sahara had made it possible to overcome the obstacles erected by the Moroccan side to prevent the holding of the referendum.

While it has deployed monitors in the major diamond mining areas nationwide, their efficiency remains limited, owing to a lack of transport and other logistical constraints.

Since December 2001 the Netherlands has identified some obstacles with regard to enforcing effective and preventive freezing measures, especially with regard to creating an effective freezing mechanism on a European level.

The implementation of the positive measures undertaken by society towards the Roma population had sometimes encountered obstacles deriving mainly from the difficulties in coexistence between different lifestyles.

c) Raise awareness about women's right to equality and the importance of women's participation and representation in all spheres and at all levels in order to eliminate obstacles to women's equality

Those continual obstacles, provocations and breaches of the agreements by Morocco had led the United States representative, in 1994, to accuse the Government of Morocco of behaving like gangsters .

They resorted to videoconferencing to circumvent these obstacles, but such measures have proven unsatisfactory, leaving gaps in governmental communication.

If anything, China has proven that a country can blend control, coercion, and patronage to stymie the Internet s politically liberalizing elements.

Some who believe in the imminence of peak oil consider these barriers essentially irrelevant, arguing that their removal would merely delay the peak for a few years.

India, long feared to be a spoiler, has said that it is ready to adopt a significant national action plan to move towards a trajectory of sustainable energy.

On the contrary, the G 7 has lost relevance, the International Monetary Fund is hampered by its representation and legitimacy deficits, and the G 20 is still finding its feet.

It demands the SLM A, the JEM and the Government of the Sudan to immediately cease violence, comply with the N'Djamena ceasefire agreement, end impediments to the peace process and cooperate fully with the African Union Mission.

Furthermore, this policy precludes the possibility of establishing a viable and contiguous Palestinian State, prejudges the outcome of the final status negotiations and undermines international efforts at achieving a comprehensive, just and lasting peace in the Middle East.

The next moment Putin balks at removing Russia s military garrison from Moldova s secessionist Transdniester region while prosecutors talk ominously of putting more oligarchs in the dock.