Protracted situations

Nor should the United Nations not lose sight of one long standing problem which has been confronting the Organization since its inception the question of Palestine.

Longstanding conflicts remain unresolved and complex new challenges are emerging.

Iran s long standing opposition to relations with the US is a bit more complex.

What is needed is more intense bilateral diplomacy among Asian governments to settle long standing disputes.

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

We are confident that a successfully negotiated settlement of that long standing issue, maintaining the essential verification role of the IAEA, would be a significant accomplishment for international peace and security.

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

Mr. Lallah commented on the wooliness of the ideas expressed in regard to a problem that was longstanding.

Intense and long suffering, Argentines know how to create universal heroes like Eva Perón and Ché Guevara.

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

Yet high and protracted unemployment plagues many less skilled workers.

The long running economic miracles of South Korea and Hong Kong ended, as did surging growth in Indonesia and Thailand.

The Egyptian army was also engaged heavily in the protracted North Yemen Civil War, and the brief Libyan Egyptian War in July 1977.

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

PARIS In the last few weeks, the idea of establishing a European banking union has become the latest remedy advanced as a solution to the long running euro crisis.

And, as in Egypt, the protracted transition risks faltering under the weight of rising political violence and socioeconomic decline.

But around 2015, China will face a third dramatic change a demographic shift reflecting the effects of its long standing one child policy.

I reiterate my earlier call on the witnesses to the Algiers Agreements, and especially on those States having influence with the parties, to play a more concerted role with a view to assisting the parties in breaking the protracted and dangerous stalemate.

Some prolonged disputes on inheritance especially of land use rights have made women hesitant to take part in court proceedings.

A current issue that could also threaten to imperil the global economy, and which this Organization should address, is the prolonged and sustained increase in oil prices.

In recent years, this long running debate has become increasingly contentious and the costs of stalemate are mounting.

In situations where, because of the protracted experience of war, national institutions have been weakened, the rejuvenation of those institutions should be a priority for all international partners.

India would persevere in seeking a solution to a long standing problem caused by the refusal of some Member States to pay their assessed contributions to those missions.

The self reliance of refugees is a vital means to reduce dependence on humanitarian assistance and to prepare refugees for durable solutions, particularly in protracted refugee situations.

We never saw it coming, they confessed. The Cold War had lasted so long that change seemed unimaginable until freedom burst forth.

In 2004, the challenges of ensuring access to protection, making major voluntary repatriation movements sustainable and promoting the resolution of protracted refugee situations persisted.

Even in the midst of a protracted currency crisis, European governments can surely sign on to an agenda that prioritizes transfers of know how over cash infusions.

The French Air Force participated in several protracted colonial wars in Africa and Indochina after the Second World War, and continues to employ its air power in Africa.

Moreover, these violations increase insecurity, maintain a climate of tension in a particularly sensitive region and undermine the efforts made to achieve progress in resolving the long standing Cyprus issue.

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.

He was encouraged, however, by positive developments which would enable millions of such persons to return to their countries in safety and dignity as durable solutions were found to various protracted refugee situations in Africa.

7. Encourages the international community to improve its response to humanitarian emergencies, including those of a protracted nature, including efforts by donors with regard to policies and practices of good donorship

Even worse, in the absence of strong American leadership, longstanding global problems from climate change to urgently needed reforms of the international monetary system will continue to fester.

Further measures are being actively considered vis à vis member States of the Institute that consistently fail to meet their financial obligations and new initiatives are being explored to deal with long standing arrears of assessed contributions.

In June, the ECB jettisoned its long standing practice of not changing rates outside of Frankfurt, increasing them by 25 basis points in Madrid.

Owing to the protracted civil war, a dearth of economic development, and the absence of vocational schooling in southern Sudan, there is a critical shortage of skilled labour, especially in the construction, building, automotive and communications trades.

Unfortunately, under the far too long leadership of Guido Westerwelle, the FDP has degenerated into a party notable for defending the freedom only of a few privileged individuals bankers and businessmen.

In 2004, the challenges of ensuring access to protection, making major voluntary repatriation movements sustainable and promoting the resolution of protracted refugee situations persisted.

For too long, the international community has tolerated terrorism the intentional killing of civilians and noncombatants by non state actors for political purposes on the grounds that, on occasion, one man s terrorist is another man s freedom fighter.

But such agreements will produce only truces of shorter or longer duration, not a comprehensive settlement that ends the conflict.

The French Socialist Party s lingering statism, ethnocentrism, and reluctance to accept coalitions with movements to its right reflects its violent and troubled history and the long intellectual domination of the French Communists.

For instance, in Afghanistan, a country afflicted by the protracted internal conflicts, the implementation of DDR is imperative to attain sustainable peace and security.

However, despite this positive picture, a climate of protracted social and humanitarian crisis endured through the year, punctuated by an intensification of the conflict, ongoing barrier construction and persistent fiscal crisis.

Particular refugee groups targeted are ones in protracted situations who chose not to repatriate or who come from extremely volatile and insecure areas and for whom return is not an option.