Finance is another great barrier.

Across the Middle East, water is a security issue.

Climate change remains the defining issue of our era.

Israel s main concern continues to be security.

LONDON Privacy has become a big issue in contemporary jurisprudence.

Traditionally, an overwhelming obstacle for firms wishing to internationalize has been the issue of scale.

An anti missile defense system in Europe is a European, not a bilateral, issue.

Race has always been a provocative subject when the needs of science and statistics intersect with politics.

Furthermore, the question of including Hamas in the Palestine Liberation Organization is crucial.

China is, with the exception of Tibet, a satisfied and confident status quo empire.

How to forge a single community out of a state so diverse remains an elusive challenge.

Indeed, rebalancing the pattern of growth is a central economic goal of China s leadership.

The final result of the accession process is therefore an open question for both sides.

Because it poses a real threat to international peace and security, the question of the Middle East deserves special attention.

9.4 The fact of torture does not, of itself, necessarily violate article 3 of the Convention, but it is a consideration to be taken into account by the Committee.

Pressure to place food security on the regional political agenda is clear evidence of this.

Water management is an inherently difficult challenge, and experience counts for a lot.

With countries headed toward growth at different speeds, global strategy must continue to be a priority.

As the science has become increasingly clear, climate change is now a major political issue at the global and national levels.

It is assumed that since religion is a private matter for everyone, personal religious symbols are just that personal.

As the US, China, and many other nations now realize, climate change is much more than an environmental issue.

Creating meaning and preserving values is probably the one task that Europe has to undertake on behalf of the entire world.

The importance of empowering the people and their local communities in the implementation of any development programme must be a centrepoint of these activities.

That is no doubt part of the problem but the underlying problem is that financial markets made some very bad loans.

The West has never owned Turkey, so debating who lost it is pointless.

PARIS With the deepening of the economic crisis and the prospect of another recession looming large on the horizon, growing social inequality has become an increasingly urgent issue.

But relations between Israel s Jewish majority and Arab minority is an internal, delicate question in which it is not wise to involve Palestinians outside of Israel.

The presence of insurgent or terrorist sanctuaries in non belligerent countries is one of the most intractable, explosive issues in international relations.

As with the French declarations in the Nuclear Tests case, in this case there were a series of acts or statements that formed a single unilateral act, even though the statements were not identical, as will be demonstrated below.

But it is also the EU s growing complexity that is at the root of voters waning enthusiasm, so their indifference is a matter for serious concern.

Third, the world s leaders should recognize that commitments to fight poverty, hunger, disease, and climate change are life and death issues that require professional management for serious implementation.

In particular, factional clashes a prominent feature of insecurity three years ago have become a localized issue and are no longer a threat to national security.

Then, of course, there is Tibet, perhaps China s greatest domestic security concern, and also a perennial source of tension with India, owing to territorial disputes.

And it is here Europe s external relations, an issue absolutely vital to the future of all EU citizens that renationalization is rearing its ugly head again.

This is an issue which has repeatedly appeared on the agenda of the Council in the past two years, and one that has been a source of great preoccupation to the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the African Union (AU).

Decisions to endorse or otherwise acknowledge SAICM and to reflect its objectives in the work programmes of the various organizations will be a matter for each of their respective governing bodies.

Finally, the energy security problem has been complicated by the problem of global climate change. As the science has become increasingly clear, climate change is now a major political issue at the global and national levels.

For India and China separately, and certainly together, sustainability is no longer mainly a global issue it is a domestic challenge to long term growth.

Underlying the contradiction between the military and the Muslim Brotherhood is not only the question of religion, but also all of the social problems, including inequality, that riddle Arab societies.

To me, attempting to discern the economic prospects for 2011 is not a particularly interesting question the answer is bleak, with little upside potential and a lot of downside risk.

According to the State party, the Court had not held against him the fact that he did not accept the break up since it was not an element of the offence, contrary to the author's claim.

Visa liberalization can be a strategic step in the direction of shock integration, but if it is not followed by bold political action from the EU, it could merely become a re packaging of thestatus quo.

Addressing drug use through criminalization and rehabilitation centers does nothing to curb demand, however, and usage rates have failed to decline.

Contact with non State actors by humanitarian organizations for the purpose of securing access to the civilian populations in need remains a sensitive issue and can prove a serious obstacle to ensuring better protection for the civilian population.

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