Similar steps had to be taken in the West Bank, including the immediate implementation of the recent political understandings, the implementation of the road map and the immediate resumption of negotiations on final status issues.

Unfortunately, it appears that we will be considering texts that put the General Assembly in the position of attempting to prejudge and prejudice the settlement of final status issues.

There should not be any automaticity as to the start of talks on the final status.

The principals reminded both parties of the need to avoid unilateral actions that might pre judge final status issues, and they urged the parties to implement their obligations under the road map.

Local government reform programmes must not await final status negotiations.

Of course, to put on the table a comprehensive settlement plan that addresses all of the final status issues, with compromises that all sides could be persuaded and pressured to accept, would require statesmanship.

In the view of the Committee, that decision would prejudice the outcome of final status negotiations.

Israel's actions should not prejudge final status issues or threaten longer term prospects for peace by making the creation of a viable and contiguous Palestinian State much more difficult.

On final status issues, EU ministers on 18 July recalled that the Union will not recognize any change to the pre 1967 borders other than those arrived at by agreement between the parties.

Failure to do so will obstruct the beginning of the process to determine the final status of the province.

Specific timetables for reaching the 2012 end state envisaged in the Moscow Treaty and greater specificity as to exactly what that end state will be (we admit a preference for the lower number) would be useful complements to the Treaty.

The onus lies with the people of Kosovo to make the necessary progress themselves to allow a final status process to start.

Obviously, Olmert is thinking of fusing an agreement on the final status with the Road Map mechanism.

His successor, Ehud Olmert, began negotiating a final status agreement with the Palestinian Authority s president, Mahmoud Abbas.

With the comprehensive review imminent and the prospect of final status talks approaching, we also look to Serbia and Montenegro to engage constructively.

The matter of Jerusalem's final status should be resolved through peace talks by the parties concerned on the basis of the relevant United Nations resolutions.

Those actions would ensure a successful outcome to the withdrawal from Gaza and a serious resumption of negotiations on the issue of final status, which has been postponed for too long.

And these are not talks about talks, but a full blown revival of final status negotiations, with an undertaking by both parties to remain in the process for at least nine months.

Once an agreement on Kosovo's final status has been found, we can look forward to a more peaceful and prosperous future that the peoples of South Eastern Europe deserve.

Moreover, the continued construction of the wall on Palestinian land threatens to prejudge the eventual outcome of the final status negotiations between the parties.

Permanent status issues concerning borders, the West Bank, Jerusalem, and refugees must be dealt with bilaterally.

The school had been closed for four weeks prior to the attack due to the deteriorating security situation, but students from multiple schools had been called in to take final exams in physics.

It was the Authority's view that UNRWA must continue to serve the Palestine refugees even after Israel's disengagement, until the refugee issue was settled in final status negotiations.

That construction is also taking place in an area that is considered one of the most sensitive in the final status negotiations and that has a large number of people who will be adversely affected.

Fortunately, existing taboos about what is acceptable in the final status talks have fallen on both sides.

The primary test of whether Kosovo has overcome the tragic problems of the past and matured sufficiently to allow the start of a final status process will be its treatment of its minority communities.

At the same time, cooler heads will struggle to postpone a potentially divisive 2007 referendum on the final status of the oil rich city of Kirkuk.

The Palestinian Authority was committed to the implementation of the road map, which would facilitate the revival of the peace process and the resumption of final status negotiations based on the relevant resolutions of the Security Council.

Some time over the next month or two, the Balkan Contact Group the US, UK, France, Germany, Italy, and Russia will consider Ahtisaari s recommendations on Kosovo s final status and possibly propose a solution to the Security Council, which must make the final decision.

We also call for a strengthening of the role of the Security Council, as final arbiter of international peace and security, in order that it can take appropriate action in the event of non compliance with NPT obligations.

Negotiations this year in Vienna, brokered by the United Nations, showed that an agreed settlement between Serbia and Kosovo on final status will not happen.

Secondly, the construction of the wall inside the Green Line which the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice determined to be contrary to international law is adversely affecting the livelihood of Palestinians and is prejudicial to the outcome of the final status negotiations.

That is ultimate measure of our success and the ultimate measure of our Organization's effectiveness.

Decides to convene a ministerial conference to discuss the issue of refugees in the Muslim world during the 2nd half of 2005, the final date of which will be decided in consultation with the country willing to host the conference.

That review will have a major impact on the timing of final status talks, and it is therefore in the common interest of all concerned to ensure that real, verifiable progress has been made in the implementation of the standards.

It will provide the basis to judge whether there has been sufficient progress to justify the start of a political process to determine Kosovo's final status, which has remained undetermined during the last six years.

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In other words, it is a group with which Israel can work on status quo issues, though not on a comprehensive agreement.

Both parties should concentrate on fulfilling their respective obligations and commitments under the road map. They should also refrain from any and all unilateral actions that threaten to prejudge the

Here's the final hamburger.

Monitoring and final resolution.

6. Urges the Palestinian and Israeli sides, as agreed between them, to deal with the important issue of Palestine refugees' properties and their revenues in the framework of the final status negotiations of the Middle East peace process

5. Urges the Palestinian and Israeli sides, as agreed between them, to deal with the important issue of Palestine refugees' properties and their revenues within the framework of the final status negotiations of the Middle East peace process

5. Urges the Palestinian and Israeli sides, as agreed between them, to deal with the important issue of Palestine refugees' properties and their revenues within the framework of the final status negotiations of the Middle East peace process

5. Urges the Palestinian and Israeli sides, as agreed between them, to deal with the important issue of Palestine refugees' properties and their revenues in the framework of the final status negotiations of the Middle East peace process