Its borders are not impervious to encroachment by universal ills.

That, in turn, implies less human encroachment into natural ecosystems, enabling greater biodiversity.

Forests have deteriorated, due to illegal harvesting and encroachment for agriculture and settlement.13

encroachment of the Azerbaijani forces into the border regions of the Republic of Armenia

Alarmed by European encroachment in China, Britain also feared for the security of Hong Kong.

Encroachment on the Islamic holy sites will not contribute to peace or stability for the parties concerned.

Gansu s challenges range from modernizing its heavy industries to resisting desertification and the encroachment of the Gobi desert.

The Chinese Government and people strongly condemn and firmly oppose such a gross encroachment on China's internal affairs.

Women have led the way to protest corporate encroachment on the rain forest and its life sustaining, planet sustaining environment.

Nevertheless, fiscal rules and common banking supervision are still regarded in many quarters as an illegitimate encroachment on member states sovereignty.

From the current French viewpoint, however, laws and regulations based on ethnicity are regarded as an unwelcome encroachment on the Republican ideal.

My delegation shares the growing concern at the Security Council's gradual encroachment on the powers and the mandate of the General Assembly.

(v) Significant flows of refugees or displaced persons resulting from a pattern of racial discrimination or encroachment on the lands of minority communities.

Encroachment on their lands and their displacement from lands should not be resorted to in the name of development projects or perceived security considerations.

Nigeria had embarked on an ambitious project to check and reverse the rate of desert encroachment and ensure the sustainable management of forest resources.

At the height of America s power, Russia had resigned itself to the apparently unstoppable encroachment of NATO on the Soviet Union s former sphere of influence.

Diminished biodiversity, due to habitat encroachment, fragmentation and pesticide misuse, also leads farmers to rely on greenhouse gas generating chemical inputs to increase their yields.

(a) Causes of depletion of energy sources. Increasing pressure on agricultural land due to a growing world population has led to encroachment on forest reserves.

Niger, which has had to deal with the galloping and frightening encroachment of the desert, is following with close interest the work of this committee.

Such an approach has in no way deterred, but indeed encouraged, the Serbs in their continued encroachment on territory, calculated duplicity and bypassing of agreements.

The transformation of grasslands into deserts due to deforestation, encroachment into forests for subsistence farming, overgrazing, and loss of biodiversity and soil threaten the entire continent.

Encroachment by the Council on issues that fall within the purview of other organs of the United Nations, particularly the General Assembly, has regrettably become commonplace.

Declining rainfall contributed directly or indirectly to crop failures, the encroachment of the desert into pasturelands, the decline of water and grassland for livestock, and massive deforestation.

German rule Namibia became a German colony in 1884 under Otto von Bismarck to forestall British encroachment and was known as German South West Africa ( Deutsch Südwestafrika ).

Roles should, however, be demarcated clearly to ensure complementarity of purpose and support, without any undue influence or encroachment on each other's mandates or spheres of competency.

The international community was most concerned about the wall's encroachment on Palestinian land and interests and the great hardships created for the people affected by its construction.

In this context, we are further concerned over certain aspects of the restructuring of the Secretariat of the United Nations that strengthen the tendency to such encroachment.

The Masai of East Africa can say that their pastoral tradition has been destroyed in that way because of the massive encroachment on their lands and territories.

Energy Infrastructure The RapidEye constellation can monitor pipeline and transmission corridors and identify problems on the ground such as vegetation encroachment, nearby buildings, development of roads or leaks.

1. The new international humanitarian order should oblige States to recognize human rights in their constitutions in order to ensure constitutional protection of human rights from any encroachment thereon.

Keynes demonstrated that the main cause of bouts of heavy and prolonged unemployment was not worker encroachment on profits, but the fluctuating prospects of private investment in an uncertain world.

It constitutes overt encroachment on the territorial inviolability of Ukraine, an interference into its internal and external affairs and is incompatible with the aims and principles of the United Nations.

8. Soil pollution, urban encroachment onto agricultural land and the potential effects of global climatic change, while well recognized as actual or potential problems, have not been assessed in this study.

It will be important for the Conference to build on the understanding reached at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, while avoiding encroachment on ongoing negotiations relating to environment issues.

At the same time, Romania s experience demonstrates that official secrecy remains a threat to the core values of democratic governance, and that only constant vigilance, in both established and young democracies, can prevent its encroachment.

No one could object to the construction of the wall in areas coinciding with the Green Line, but its encroachment on Palestinian land and interests brought great hardship for the people and exacerbated the situation.

On the issue of accountability, in particular the relationship between the Security Council and the General Assembly, my delegation is concerned about the Council's gradual encroachment on the powers and mandate of the General Assembly.

Those who encourage the Armenian community of Nagorny Karabakh to continue the fighting and the encroachment on the surrounding territories share responsibility for the continuing loss of Armenian lives and the destruction of Armenian economy.

2 To disseminate useful results based on field experience, UNSO prepared two, more technical publications, the first on quot Reforestation the Ethiopian Experience, 1984 1989 quot and the other on quot Sand Encroachment in Mauritania quot .

Those who encourage the Armenian community of Nagorny Karabakh to continue the fighting and the encroachment on the surrounding territories share responsibility for the continuing loss of Armenian lives and the destruction of the Armenian economy.

For many African countries desert encroachment and increasing bouts of drought are issues which deserve urgent solutions in order to increase agricultural output and to assure a better and higher standard of living for the growing population.

The wall's encroachment on Palestinian land and interests creates great hardships for the Palestinian people affected by its construction and exacerbates the situation by placing populations, agricultural land and a part of the West Bank aquifer beyond their reach.

Even in Turkey, a non Arab Muslim country with strong aspirations to reconcile Islam with democracy, the agreement between Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan s Islamist government and the urban middle class to limit official encroachment on secular lifestyles is unraveling.

Because of the potential for significant social harassment and human rights violations as well as encroachment on long established procedural rights, persons unduly affected by such measure should be able to challenge them judicially and on an expedited or priority basis.

Reference in such a manner to that northern part of Iraq by the organization constituted an encroachment on the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Iraq and interference in its internal affairs, which was contrary to the principles of the Charter of the United Nations.