Future efforts will focus on situation specific approaches, notably for protracted refugee situations.

Protracted displacement with little hope of solutions in sight remains the situation of millions of displaced persons worldwide.

A protracted hostage situation involving United Nations staff in Kabul was successfully resolved during the months of October and November 2004.

A protracted hostage situation involving United Nations staff in Afghanistan was successfully resolved during the months of October and November 2004.

Protracted situations

Everything about the man was, indeed, protracted.

One approach to address a protracted refugee situation during the reporting period concerned the Convention Plus initiative to establish a comprehensive plan of action (CPA) for Somali refugees launched in July 2004.

He carried out a protracted war of national liberation.

Moreover, it is likely to be a protracted performance.

The plight of the Saharawi refugees in camps in Tindouf in Algeria who have been separated from their communities of origin in Western Sahara for decades represents another example of an ongoing protracted situation.

Particularly troubling is France's protracted incarceration of pre trial suspects.

Yet high and protracted unemployment plagues many less skilled workers.

They should include more peacebuilding activities, particularly during protracted conflicts.

Many protracted situations remain, with little prospect of early solutions.

Many protracted situations remain, with little prospect of early solutions.

(b) Acknowledges the importance of comprehensive approaches especially for the resolution of protracted and large scale refugee situations, which incorporate, as appropriate and given the specifics of each refugee situation, voluntary repatriation, local integration and resettlement

The result of protracted US weakness is also a weaker Europe.

The same applies to the protracted negotiations between developed and developing nations.

They have also accumulated large protracted arrears with the international financial institutions.

The visit provided an opportunity to further raise interest among donor countries concerning this protracted refugee situation and to clarify a number of points regarding, in particular, issues relating to food distribution, including recurrent breakdowns in the food pipeline.

Microsoft s advantage, and its business model, goes back to another protracted legal struggle.

As the Security Council knows and as is normal in any situation of protracted conflict, such as that in Côte d'Ivoire deep seated mistrust among the Ivorian leaders continues to hamper the advance towards the resolution of the Ivorian crisis.

He died of pneumonia in Paris on 6 March 1950 after a protracted illness.

Those protracted conflict situations are terrible problems for the regions in which they linger.

As I observed in my last report, however, the protracted stalemate is inherently destabilizing.

The United Nations needs to reach out more systematically to those regional organizations, and steps should be taken to increase their accountability, particularly in the case of protracted or frozen conflicts, where a situation does not improve or even worsens over the years.

That means paying down debt and rebuilding savings, leaving consumer demand mired in protracted weakness.

New Zealand was not prepared to continue the protracted and inconclusive process for another decade.

Protracted check ins and check outs reduce the effective stay of UNMOs in the field.

But currency swings, if too wide and protracted, can hurt competitiveness and require costly resource allocation.

Following protracted development, blue laser diodes operating at 405 nanometers became available on a production basis.

They were aimed at improving Germany's ability to survive a long, protracted war in the West.

Protracted civil conflicts have provoked some of the largest occurrences of forced displacement in recent times.

In 2004, some two thirds of the global refugee population remained in limbo in protracted situations.

He withstood a series of protracted sieges in Amman (1970), Beirut (1982), and in Ramallah (2002 2004).

All of this, according to Reinhart and Rogoff, involves a protracted and pronounced contraction in economic activity.

Fortunately, an L shaped period of protracted economic stagnation Japan s experience in the 1990 s is unlikely.

But none of the reserves could be exploited until 1988, when Chad s protracted civil war finally ended.

Protracted refugee situations, which had lasted for more than five years, were a different type of obstacle.

Strikes were not illegal although a protracted procedure of mediation and reconciliation had to be exhausted first.

Norway welcomed the High Commissioner's decision to conduct an annual review of all the protracted refugee situations with a view to formulating comprehensive plans of action, when conditions allowed, and stressed that the patience of the international community with regard to the refugee situation was running out.

Advanced economies will face sluggish (call it 2 ) growth and persistently high, increasingly structural (and therefore protracted) unemployment.

World monetary conditions seem to point to a protracted period of high liquidity and low international interest rates.

People without income or security fall prey to crime and violence, and often get trapped in protracted conflict.

The protracted nature of the conflict and lack of active hostilities meant that international attention had also faded.