After this it survived as a geo political entity until the 7th century.

As part of the price for his release, Chiang recognized the Communists as legitimate.

In a number of respects the lower river and lake can be treated as one entity.

While it serves as the operational entity for convention financial mechanisms, it does not develop or implement projects.

That deal would appear to favor Russia, with Moldova recognizing Transdnistria as a legitimate entity.

The eurozone as such has no representation in the international financial institutions.

If the proprietor is foreign, it will have three months to register as a legal entity in Russia, the newspaper quoted Ampelonsky as saying.

The Republika Srpska has still not harmonized its entity legislation with the State Law on Refugees and Displaced Persons.

MINUGUA was seen as an impartial entity within a conflictive and often distrustful national political environment.

Only Europe as a whole, focused politically on the idea of better regulation, is big enough to block the neo liberal tsunami.

In this case, the mistake is to think that Israel can destroy Hezbollah or eliminate it as a political and military entity.

(g) Autonomy for the centre The host country should be willing to grant the centre autonomy to operate as a separate legal entity with appropriate immunities.

If Europe is to fulfill its role as a major global actor, its scope cannot be limited to that of a large common market.

Nor should all Palestinians suffer as though they acted as a single entity, posing a collective terrorist threat.

Part of the seeming disconnect on foreign policy emerges from a misunderstanding about what Europe is about.

Indeed, the ability to recognize oneself as the agent of a behavior is the way the self builds as an entity independent from the external world.

All these factors were contributing to the total disintegration of Palestine as a credible geographic and territorial entity, elements that usually make up a nation.

On the contrary, the way in which the various religious and ethnic groups in Iraq responded to his execution is emblematic of the difficulty of holding Iraq together as a coherent entity.

The US had a unique opportunity at the end of the Cold War to use its benevolent and enlightened superiority to establish a better international order.

(d) Special arrangements for the direct inclusion of North Cyprus as an economic entity in the European Union customs union and for enjoyment of its full benefits by all Turkish Cypriots

No doubt, Russia has regained strength from high oil and gas prices, and it is reclaiming its position as an independent global actor.

My focus is Israel as a political entity, as a government, their armed forces being a satellite of U.S. interests in the Middle East, and especially Israeli policies toward the Palestinians.

Human beings as a collective entity are only beginning to become aware of the Earth as our common home, but we have not yet begun to realize that we also have a common destiny

The Security Council stresses that the United Nations should function as one integrated entity at country level under effective overall leadership in post conflict peacebuilding.

The Convention further appoints the GEF to serve as the principal operational entity on an interim basis, until the COP decides to designate a permanent entity or entities.

Whereas we tend to view it as an intruder, a stranger, certainly an organ whose powers need to be limited or defined and constrained, the Chinese don't see the state like that at all.

As a preliminary objection, Iraq contends that Saudi Arabia has no standing to submit this claim, as it is not the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia but individual farmers who suffered the alleged losses.

Tolerance becomes the cardinal European virtue in this vision, and the EU s character as an entity with federal law but without federal statehood is viewed as a strength, not a weakness.

Further such actions had recently included attempts to assert an international presence for the Malvinas Islands as a separate entity from Argentina, to confer upon its government a status that it did not have and to extend international conventions to the disputed area.

As to the role of the United Nations, it is essential that cooperation among its members be strengthened in order to affirm its identity as an entity that embodies human aspirations for peaceful coexistence and mutual interest among nations.

Member State pressure for rational division of labour within the United Nations may inspire recognition of UNOPS unique role as an operational project management, contracting and complex procurement entity.

If the EU is divided on an issue lying at its geographic heart and at the heart of its interests its credibility as a foreign policy actor on matters beyond its borders will suffer dramatically.

The review will apply specific performance criteria to evaluate the level of funding, the effectiveness of the GEF in its capacity as principal operational entity, and the ability of the financial mechanism to respond to the needs of the Convention and the policy guidance of the COP.

Israel progressively and systematically seeks to crush and obliterate all the elements that would help in the creation of a future State of Palestine as a contiguous geographical entity and a viable State, which would be a factor in consolidating peace and stability in the region and the world.

Almost all of this happens automatically, without long, contentious negotiations among state governors and federal officials, assistance from the IMF, or calling into question the existence of the United States as a unified political economic entity.

There would be on board a crew of artists, musicians, that would allow the thing to become actually kind of a conscious object that would respond to the moment, and to interact as an entity that was aware, that could communicate.

In fact, the fate of this group is perhaps the best example of how individual identities of the new member states are beginning to assert themselves now that membership in the EU and NATO are secured.

His election inevitably enhanced the standing of the US as a land of genuine opportunity, a nation whose multicultural credentials were as great if not better than polyglot and poly ethnic India.

In sum, the widespread prostitution, trafficking and other forms of violence against women that mark women's experience today, mutually reinforce and are not separate from the existing attitudinal, economic and political prejudices that denigrate the personhood and dignity of woman.

This would be a way for Japan to escape its reputation for insularity, avoid the mistakes of its military history, improve its relations with Asian neighbors who still remember the 1930 s, and increase Japan s soft or attractive power.

In this case, the mistake is to think that Israel can destroy Hezbollah or eliminate it as a political and military entity. To claim otherwise plays into the hands of Hezbollah, Syria, and Iran, which want to define their victory as Hezbollah s survival.

Saddam Hussein is dead, but not all Iraqis are celebrating. On the contrary, the way in which the various religious and ethnic groups in Iraq responded to his execution is emblematic of the difficulty of holding Iraq together as a coherent entity.

However, this division was far from absolute, and in the nineteenth century, Western Europe, Central Europe, and Russia were closely linked as a united cultural and economic space, which grew and developed despite religious diversity and political upheavals.

In the same way, the Europeans will eventually find themselves having to speak with one voice and act as one body in the wider world, if only because a globalized world will not allow them the luxury of doing anything else.

But the more hopeful scenario is that China, through piecemeal evolution, will continue to shed its historical sense of victimization and its old, bankrupt ideology of revolution to emerge as a more self confident, democratic, and constructive world player.