Yet this, too, entailed a troublesome result.

Security Council reform is an important issue which requires a productive outcome.

Anything short of that would be very bad news.

negotiations to be not only pursued, but to be brought to a conclusion.

However, no conclusions have come out of these discussions up till now.

The international community has great expectations for reaching a positive outcome in Copenhagen.

The aim should be to produce a result which is both practical and realistic.

We are certain that your experience and your diplomatic skill will lead to a very positive outcome for the work of this session.

A satisfactory outcome in both places is within reach.

That is not enough to ensure a substantive result, but it is a necessary precondition.

So, from a realistic point of view, a positive outcome for the Annapolis talks seems almost impossible.

Yet, as a result of goodwill and laborious negotiations, compromises can be sought and achieved without sacrificing universal principles.

He urged all Governments to make every effort to achieve a successful conclusion of the negotiations on the draft protocol.

NAM member countries will give their full cooperation towards achieving a successful outcome at the High level Plenary Meeting.

We hope that an early conclusion on this matter can be reached.

This is a general practice supported by the law, and, as such, was not raised before the Constitutional Court, given that there was no prospect of a successful outcome.

All of those issues would need to be studied further before any conclusion could be reached about an appropriate net remuneration adjustment mechanism.

The international community s objective should be restricted to a peaceful outcome that allows Burma s people to work out their own solution.

We deeply regret that 2005 NPT Review Conference was unable to reach a substantive outcome.

Intensified efforts and a readiness to compromise are essential, and an early and satisfactory conclusion must be reached.

Assuming a strong outcome in Dubai, there is cause to hope that such support will continue through the implementation phase.

We are prepared to engage our partners and interlocutors in dialogue and discussion to further enrich our understanding of the questions at hand with a view to achieving a positive and constructive outcome.

The result of this approach can be readily observed in the quality of the Agreement that has been reached.

We look forward to further debate on this question and hope that an acceptable outcome will be put in place by 1995 to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the United Nations.

In other words, this conflict is still far from reaching a conclusion, wrote journalist Elaine Tavares on the Brasil de Fato website

In that connection, a favourable outcome of the negotiations with Syria should have a positive effect.

To ensure a positive outcome, policymakers should develop a fully transparent framework with well defined rules of engagement.

At the same time, however, they must not concentrate on their own problems to the exclusion of a balanced result for all participants in the negotiations.

His delegation therefore continued to believe that a comprehensive convention on international terrorism, covering every aspect of the problem, would be useful.

Lastly, New Zealand believes that these issues have to be brought to some conclusion by the end of the forty ninth session.

Given the role of services in development, technology transfer and trade, a balanced outcome in services negotiations is imperative.

However, we regret that no significant result was reached at the recent world summit in that important area of Security Council reform.

Soon, it became clear that even the best human chess players would have little chance to do better than an occasional draw.

ICCD COP(5) 7 Outstanding items Consideration of rule 47 of the rules of procedure

Getting to

Maybe we could... reach an understanding.

Yet, while the official summit in Cancún struggled to a conclusion, an unofficial one being held a few minutes away also concluded.

The COP was unable to reach a conclusion on the matter and decided to include this item in the provisional agenda for its ninth session accompanied by an appropriate explanatory footnote.

With regard to the draft comprehensive convention on international terrorism, it was to be hoped that all States would approach the negotiations in a spirit of compromise so as to reach a successful conclusion.

In accordance with his mandate, my Special Representative actively followed the discussions among the parties involved in the formation of the Government and provided encouragement and advice to ensure a successful outcome.

We recognize the fact that today's success would not have been possible without the willingness of several delegations to put aside their political differences in order to ensure a successful outcome.

It is the hope of my delegation that at the current session an appropriate resolution will be adopted, enabling the Open ended Working Group to continue its consideration of the question with a view to reaching an early conclusion.

Fiji therefore strongly supports an effective outcome from the Conference, an outcome that would ensure the long term conservation and sustainable use of the fish resources of the seas and oceans.

quot 6. Calls on all States to refrain from any action which might contribute to increasing tension and to impeding or delaying a peaceful and negotiated outcome to the conflict in Somalia, which would permit all Somalis to decide upon and to construct their future in peace

When urging a colleague to come to the meeting, one committee member noted that if somebody were to catch cold, a completely different decision might be reached.