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

Argentina favoured the broadest possible protection under the draft protocol, but realized that concessions would be necessary in order to ensure a large number of ratifications.

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.

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

In Brazil, the television channels are public concessions.

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

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

Calling for Israeli concessions is perfectly legitimate, even necessary.

That will require both sides to make substantial concessions.

Major economic and geopolitical concessions were offered to both suitors.

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

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.

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

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).

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

The adoption of the text was the result of a lengthy negotiation process in which all parties made important concessions.

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

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

The law is one of several concessions President Dmitry Medvedev offered in response to the Bolotnaya Square protests last winter.

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

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

The Chinese demanded a resumption of talks on the unsettled border, though there seems little prospect of either side making new concessions.

This could lead to a situation where Members negotiate their mutual concessions on the basis of different understandings of the various sectors.

With an influx of itinerant labour into these remote and largely lawless regions, the potential for conflict over concessions is growing.