We hope that discussions aimed at breaking the impasse will continue on this very important issue.

Mobile teams travel to reach the most isolated patients.

Entrance of a Caravanserai in Isfahan (1840), by French Orientalist painter Eugène Flandin.

Even convoys escorted by the police are attacked by groups of armed men.

Armed convoys transport raw opium around the country unhindered.

The Silk Road has been historically a caravan route linking the markets of China with those of the Western world.

The convoys even threatened Bamako, the capital, composed mostly of black Africans.

They must ensure the convoys' security, guard them and guide them pursuant to regulations governing the supervision of convoys and stipulating their routes and stopping points.

In the north, Tuaregs traveling to Mauritania, Algeria and Niger, were particularly weakened by persistent drought and the collapse of the caravan economy.

In Northern Darfur, SLA ambushed several convoys and vehicles belonging to or engaged by humanitarian organizations along the Kabkabiya El Fasher road.

Although scientists did not become aware of the Wabar craters until 1932, they were located near a caravan route from Oman and were very likely known to the inhabitants of the desert.

At the same time caravans from Morocco brought tobacco to the areas around Timbuktu and the Portuguese brought the commodity (and the plant) to southern Africa, establishing the popularity of tobacco throughout all of Africa by the 1650s.

However, the State has never completely re established its authority over all the territory of Ituri, which remains divided into zones controlled by different groups exploiting the goldmines, smuggling goods and arms to Uganda, extorting money from the civilian population and attacking humanitarian convoys.

3.5.b In this connection, the directives relating to the protection of convoys, issued on 9 January 1995, stipulate that public safety units must provide appropriate protection to convoys crossing Jordanian territory.

Indeed, the disruption of trade, the deterioration of major roads by humanitarian convoys and all the other costs eat up our meagre resources and are the most common source of political unrest among our own people, who feel that they have been abandoned.

On the night of October 15, 2011, I lay awake listening to the Kenyan military convoys passing through the border town of Dadaab on their way to Somalia to launch the first foreign military campaign in Kenya s history.

A total of 119 incidents of armed robbery involving significant United Nations assets were reported as well as 9 attacks, resulting in the death or injury of United Nations personnel, on humanitarian convoys and operations, compared with 7 such incidents during the previous reporting period.