We have had achievements, but we have also had setbacks.

Unpaid pledges are cancelled when a written request for cancellation is received.

The Committee apparently has utilized this as its policy in prior de listings.

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As we have seen time and again, the transition to democracy is delicate and difficult and can suffer severe setbacks.

The present high human cost of structural adjustment was reiterated as well as its contribution to the creation of political backlashes.

The political landscape seems to be becoming clearer, and we hope that the timetable can be adhered to without setbacks.

That reassures and convinces us that, with regard to these issues, there will be no regression.

In these follow ups, the secretariat has requested the field offices to ensure that government ministries and agencies submit the liquidation reports within the prescribed period and identify those that would qualify for write off.

When we talk about such a sequence, we have to think about harmonious transitions to avoid any gaps or relapses.

The withdrawal of the United Nations from Timor Leste at this time would lead to setbacks that would put at risk the achievements accomplished so far.

Tunisian activists and bloggers have been expressing concerns over rights setbacks in the aftermath of the deadly attack on the Bardo Museum, in Tunis, on Wednesday.

Various issues have been raised by Member States. Some countries say that they are hesitating to submit names for listing because they allege the system lacks a robust de listing mechanism.

Indeed, since the 2000 Review Conference, there have been serious setbacks to the implementation of that commitment.

It is much better and much cheaper to invest in post conflict peacebuilding, which is also preventive in nature, than to expend scarce resources on relapses that can be prevented.

As we mark the sixtieth anniversary of the United Nations, it is indeed proper and fitting to reflect on the achievements and setbacks of our Organization since its inception.

Many countries continue to accumulate high levels of precautionary reserves, especially to avoid future crises stemming from reversals on their capital and trade accounts.

Many countries, especially least developed countries (LDCs), have experienced alarming reverses in human development, with costs falling disproportionately on the poor in general, and on women, children and minorities in particular.

A large number of items are automatically earmarked for write off although they were recently acquired these are, for example, office furniture, safes, mattresses, televisions, video recorders, binoculars and night vision devices.

80. The Administration agreed with the Board apos s recommendation and advised that regional directors representatives had already been instructed to follow up on unliquidated balances of more than nine months and, if appropriate, initiate a write off action.

Despite momentary setbacks, the United Nations has taken a laudable role at each juncture of Somalia's history, from colonialism to independence and throughout our nationhood.

They have also contributed to the rifts among countries of the region and the set backs in cooperation to which failures in the region apos s performance and inadequate rapport between member States and the secretariat are attributed.

None of this is to say that the international financial realities a country faces are necessarily always reasonable. Sometimes global financial markets eagerness to lend results in unreasonable booms, followed by abrupt reversals.

Considering with concern that it has not yet been possible to overcome the devastating effects of hurricanes Mitch and Keith on sectors of Central American countries and which are causing setbacks in the efforts of the peoples and the Governments of Central America,

The Committee also has established a de listing process to enable those listed to petition for removal.24 The Team believes that additional relatively minor changes to the de listing process would address many of the widespread procedural concerns.

Of course, nobody can deny that setbacks and general disappointments were unavoidable in the history of the United Nations and that certain expectations were not completely fulfilled, but the ideals remain intact and as valid as on the day of the Organization's inception.

I. INTRODUCTION 1. Global progress towards the achievement of the goals of the World Summit for Children, and significant results from accelerated child survival activities in the late 1980s, are being registered, despite setbacks in some complex emergency countries.

During 2002 and 2003, the tourism industry experienced major setbacks following several natural disasters, the follow on effects of the terrorist attacks in the United States in 2001, travel fears over the war in Iraq and the advent of severe acute respiratory syndrome.

Today, the US is a more sober and realistic country than it was in the heyday of the early post Cold War period. But, in the aftermath of setbacks in regions where it intervened, and with heightened economic distress at home, the US finds itself uncertain about how to respond to changing global events.

Dampening the repo market could be economically useful, because this funding has proven to be unstable Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers used repo heavily in ways that made them unable to withstand investment reversals elsewhere in their business.