NEW YORK Preoccupation with Afghanistan s disputed presidential election is understandable.

In other words, it is their job to sort through disputed accounts presented in evidence.

In 1969, the Chinese and Soviet armies exchanged fire across their disputed border.

However, contested claims to self determination challenged the standard definition of mercenarism.

The Government forces were instructed not to approach disputed areas.

reach a mutually satisfactory agreement concerning the territory of Abyei, a key disputed border area

Despite these similarities, the relationship with development is one of the most contested areas of human security .

The only clear lesson to emerge from Iran s disputed presidential election is that the country has a vibrant and indeed dynamic civil society.

demarcate the uncontested 80 of the border and refer the remaining 20 to binding international arbitration

The country remains on a war footing with Eritrea over the disputed border village of Badme.

By contrast, vast tracts of disputed land are at stake in the resource rich Himalayan region.

But the most likely explanation is the simplest one China was deliberately asserting its authority over the disputed border.

Weeks later, he provocatively visited the contested islets known as the Dokdo Islands in South Korea (which controls them) and the Takeshima Islands in Japan.

As Ukrainska Pravda journalist Kateryna Avramchuk commented via Twitter on the situation at one of the contested voting districts

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

On 13 November 2005, Chinese soldiers crossed into the disputed territories between China and Bhutan, and began building roads and bridges.

To protest the expropriation of lands that they believe was theirs for decades, farmers fought with police forces that came to evict them from the disputed land.

The Argentine Government regards as inadmissible the unilateral British actions in the disputed area, which are in violation of General Assembly resolution 31 49.

Despite India s historically established territorial claims to the region, China terms the area disputed, a description that it has now begun to extend to the whole of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir.

Following a series of military campaigns from 1876 to 1878, the United States asserted control over the area, a claim that is still disputed on the basis of the 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie (see section Controversy below).

As recently as 1944, the USSR granted Russia the Abrene region, which Latvia contested after the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

The digging work led to the removal of a hill on the contested land quite close to houses owned by Palestinians.

Moreover, surrendering territorial claims in the Arctic the stakes in the dispute with Norway is no small matter.

In its 9 to 3 verdict, the ICJ ruled that Cambodia s map, drawn up by French surveyors in 1904 1907, put the temple area in Cambodia, and that Thailand (known as Siam until 1939) had not objected previously.

This will provide China with necessary capabilities to invade, should China s rulers wish, Japan s most remote islands, including the disputed Senkaku Islands, as well as Taiwan.

Prior to the ruling, US destroyers had been patrolling the contested waters as part of what one US official described as the US Navy s routine presence in the region.

On 15 May 2005, Ethiopia held a third multiparty election, which was highly disputed, with some opposition groups claiming fraud.

He drew attention to the plight of refugees stemming from the conflicts in such areas as the occupied Palestinian and Arab territories and the disputed territory of Jammu and Kashmir.

If we fail to accept that simple fact, come the 2012 elections, we will find ourselves right back where we were after the disputed elections of 2007.

Unlike the much broader terms at issue in the present case, therefore, this conclusion was possible as the designation was used to refer to persons originating from specific countries.

Since 1989, the two countries had reached provisional understandings under the sovereignty formula on practical aspects in the disputed geographical area.

The Committee recalls that the concept of suit at law under article 14, paragraph 1, is based on the nature of the rights in question rather than the status of one of the parties.

Noting the peace negotiations in the Middle East, which should be of a comprehensive nature and represent an appropriate framework for the peaceful settlement of contentious issues in the region,

Noting the peace negotiations in the Middle East, which should be of a comprehensive nature and represent an appropriate framework for the peaceful settlement of contentious issues in the region,

Such ventures now dot Asia s geography, even as tensions over unsettled boundaries and sovereignty claims are fueling turbulence.

When Israel attempts vainly to defeat Hezbollah, it tries to avoid painful but necessary political compromises over disputed territory.

Afghanistan's national unity government was set up in 2014 in the wake of a disputed election result in an attempt to unite Afghans for the purpose of a stable and peaceful Afghanistan.

Another possible crater thought to have been formed at the same time is the larger Shiva crater, though the structure's status as a crater is contested.

Early in October, senior officials from the two countries, assisted by technical experts from the United Kingdom and France, conducted an on site inspection of the disputed area and held consultations at Koindu.

One more point of major concern to us is the illegal presence of the Russian military base in Gudauta, on the conflict territory of Abkhazia, Georgia.

(b) An order securing the amount in dispute or

That the referendum on the new constitution was voted upon so peacefully only a few short years since my country was wracked by a violently disputed presidential election is also worthy of celebration.

Noting the peace negotiations in the Middle East, which should be of a comprehensive nature and represent an appropriate framework for the peaceful settlement of contentious issues in the region,

What, then, should we make of Mexico and its disputed election? Here, too, a large segment of the electorate told pollsters that they doubted the legitimacy of the official result.

And what would Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga say if Gbagbo asks him why he unlike Alassane Ouatarra, whom the AU recognizes as Côte d'Ivoire's rightful president accepted a power sharing agreement after a 2007 disputed presidential election?