Major economic and geopolitical concessions were offered to both suitors.

Of that total, 3,374,328 hectares were forest concessions, 973,101 hectares were economic land concessions and 268,316 hectares were mining concessions.

This would also require marginal improvements in concessions by the major developing countries, and by the US and the European Union on services.

It also recently signed new mining concessions for bauxite, in addition to existing concessions for diamonds, titanium, and gold.

Hollande, too, will have to make concessions.

There was a very wide gap between the expressed political commitment to the Round and willingness to make the kinds of concessions which would give a major boost to the process.

In Brazil, the television channels are public concessions.

Calling for Israeli concessions is perfectly legitimate, even necessary.

That will require both sides to make substantial concessions.

Then there are a variety of concessions, exemptions, and surcharges.

In particular, they allow for the removal of concessions when exports increase, exempt sensitive items and reduce the effective scope of preferences while still extracting concessions unrelated to trade.14

No one should be deceived by any concessions that the Kremlin makes.

The Frente POLISARIO could not be asked to make any more concessions.

We and the sponsors made concessions in the drafting of the resolution.

We have made substantial concessions during negotiations on the Protocol before us.

Second, with Likud s Benjamin Netanyahu as prime minister, Israel now has a government which is far less likely to be willing or able to make major concessions and evacuate hundreds of thousands of Israeli settlers from the West Bank.

In addition, the world didn t reward Israel for making concessions and taking risks.

Mutual concessions can be crafted that ensure negligible political fallout for both leaders.

But, for Khamenei, nuclear concessions might also undermine his monopoly over domestic politics.

They want you to make concessions to them and then they will reciprocate .

They want you to make concessions to them and then they will reciprocate .

The committee then established criteria for maintaining or revoking concessions (see annex V).

Can he make sufficient concessions on borders and Jerusalem? Similar doubts apply to Abbas.

Uganda had made several concessions in the hope of accelerating progress towards that end.

We will always remember the difficult concessions they made in order to reach agreement.

The EU must promote democratic development in neighboring countries without expecting or demanding reciprocal concessions.

The international community expects them to make additional efforts and to agree to mutual concessions.

The Millennium Development Goals are achievable, so long as we all make efforts and concessions.

Recently, some concessions were made by the government. They don't have a choice , she points out.

Before the Western powers, Koo demanded that Germany's concessions on Shandong to be returned to China.

(d) Improving budgetary and expenditure processes, procurement and concessions practices and the Sierra Leone revenue base

Agreement was reached on the launching of negotiations regarding the question of trade concessions, one of the four questions which were left, by agreement, outside the scope of the Doha Programme of Action investment, competition, trade and environment and trade concessions.

The left offered big concessions and was ready to take high risks for the sake of peace.

Stalin presented the crop failure as a sign of Ukrainian national resistance, requiring firmness rather than concessions.

Russia, France, and Germany (and later Italy) also had been pressing the Ottoman government for railway concessions.

Also, attempts to obtain oil concessions from the Ottoman government added to the complexity of commercial arrangements.

(b) Strive to reach agreements with the peoples concerned, as far as possible, before awarding any concessions

One of the iron ore concessions in Sierra Leone is estimated to hold 10.5 billion tons of ore.

Yet Hamas continues to reject territorial concessions, insisting that all of historic Palestine must be under Muslim jurisdiction.

Palestinian and Arab opinion is waiting for the US, as Israel s ally, to intervene and press for concessions.

Britain offers generous tax concessions for oil and gas exploration, including bumper deals for companies involved in fracking.

In part, this reflects political hedging by the MILF in the face of Manila s incapacity to make meaningful concessions.

The Swedish government felt that it was in no position to openly contest Germany, and therefore made some concessions.

The waning influence of Istanbul in the Gulf forced it to make concessions without much to gain in return.

Our peoples do not need gracious concessions, but equitable distribution of the wealth that everyone in the world produces.