We were at an impasse earlier this morning.

The process of recognizing the right to self determination of the Saharan people, which had been discussed for so long, was at an impasse.

We hope that discussions aimed at breaking the impasse will continue on this very important issue.

While the peace and reconciliation process is at an impasse, the socio economic and humanitarian situation of the country continues to deteriorate, directly affecting the people of Côte d'Ivoire.

But it is harder to explain that we keep these priorities hostage to each other, to the extent that we end up in a total deadlock and at an impasse.

Making Sense of the Climate Impasse

I believe that this is the way that we, back in our capitals, should look at the CD's impasse.

After having been in an impasse for a long time, these negotiations now have a genuine chance of being relaunched.

Although it seems we are still at that impasse, I discern some potential avenues to take us out of it.

Despite the protracted impasse, of course, there have been some noteworthy inputs to the consideration of the PAROS issue at the CD.

First, the Conference on Disarmament (CD) is passing through a prolonged impasse.

Thus, while the Likud referendum seems to have left the Israeli Palestinian dispute at yet another impasse, both sides are on the verge of enormous changes.

But pro European euphoria proved short lived for all practical purposes, the accession negotiations are now at an impasse. Euro skepticism is now at an all time high in Turkey, fueled by some European political leaders rhetoric opposing Turkey s accession, and by the EU s own failure to dispel doubts about the feasibility of Turkey s eventual membership.

It was because of an impasse in the implementation of action plans, especially in West Africa, that the IUCN decided to reintroduce a new process to implement action programmes.

I am not sure what the prospects are for truly emerging from that impasse.

In addition, every effort must be made to surmount the protracted political impasse at the Conference on Disarmament and to begin negotiations on the fissile material cut off treaty.

Frankly speaking, the stakes are too high for the present impasse to be allowed to continue.

In an effort to break the current impasse, Africa will continue to hold consultations with all interested groups, regions and individual Member States, with a view to finding a solution satisfactory to all.

Under your able leadership we hope that 2005 will be a turning point in the efforts to overcome an impasse that has prevented the CD for seven consecutive years from launching substantive work.

The primary responsibility for completing the Round now rests with the US, Brazil, China, and India. This group s inflexibility is at the root of the current impasse, and, should the Round fail,

For those reasons, I deeply regret the fact that this year the Commission is facing the same impasse.

Second, divergence of views on a possible fissile material treaty is one of the reasons for the impasse.

In the past, when state economic decision making reached such an impasse, wars and or revolutions were the inevitable result. As we face the type of turning point decisions not seen since the darkest days of the 1930 s, can we avoid such an outcome?

We must stop believing that the impasse in the CD can be resolved by clever procedural drafting exercises among ourselves.

We hope that reason will prevail, as we count on a fair resolution of the present banana trade impasse in Europe.

It is important for us to look forward rather than to ruminate as to how we got to the present impasse.

There are no signs of this impasse going away because there is no political will amongst key actors to remove it.

In the context of that hope, it is difficult to understand the procrastination and disputes that caused the impasse at the 2005 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT).

The current impasse on economic reform highlights a larger point subsidy and tax regimes cannot be reformed without first redefining the underlying social contract, which has long exchanged welfare distribution for political acquiescence. But such a move is far too risky for an individual politician, or even a single country, at a time of economic uncertainty and high unemployment.

LONDON Europe has a strong tradition as a leader in the fight against climate change. Lately, however, the continent has reached an ideological impasse over how to address the problem, with environmental sustainability and growth often portrayed as being mutually exclusive.

The Conference on Disarmament is already going through a period of chronic impasse and the Disarmament Commission is in a state of paralysis.

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) National Human Development Report 2003 for Colombia, El conflicto, callejón con salida (Solutions to escape the conflict's impasse).

The Conference on Disarmament opens its current session with renewed hopes of overcoming the impasse that has impeded its work for so long.

PRINCETON The task was never going to be an easy one impose losses worth about 5.8 billion ( 7.5 billion) on lenders to the Cypriot government and depositors with the country s banks. And now that effort has led Europe to its latest impasse.

The continuing impasse between the major actors in Côte d'Ivoire jeopardizes even the October elections and, in consequence, the stability of the entire region.

Aware of the urgent need for revitalized and active international involvement to support both parties in overcoming the current dangerous impasse in the peace process,

Aware of the urgent need for revitalized and active international involvement to support both parties in overcoming the current dangerous impasse in the peace process,

The Panel expects this impasse to continue until international donors have had an opportunity to discuss the agreement with the National Transitional Government of Liberia and WAMCO, raise their specific concerns with regard to relevant details in the contract and then resolve those outstanding issues.

This is exactly the same proposal, made after the impasse and after the failure of two groups of delegations to help me remove the square brackets.

If in the course of the coming negotiations none of the current proposals gains acceptance as a starting point for an agreed solution, Costa Rica will be ready to offer an alternative model that would move us away from the extremes and lead us out of the impasse on Security Council reform that we now face.

My Government believes that the international community could break the impasse in disarmament negotiations with a strong recommitment to upholding multilateralism and working for multilaterally agreed solutions.

The solution to the impasse over Europe s Constitutional Treaty certainly does not lie in the direction of diminishing its scope, and thus perhaps making it just an ordinary treaty. Minimalist solutions respond to neither the expectations of the citizens nor the requirements of a rapidly changing world.

It is now essentially concentrating on dealing with the symptoms of the crisis, which, with the continuing impasse in the peace process, are getting worse day by day.

They back President George W. Bush s Proliferation Security Initiative aimed at stopping traffic in weapons of mass destruction. On terrorism, they break the long UN impasse over finding a definition, condemning all attacks against civilians, and propose a number of measures that member states should take.

Constitutional debt limits have yet to be tested in times of emergency, when new funding is needed quickly. And, as the recent impasse in the US demonstrates, political minorities with effective veto power can abuse statutory ceilings in an economic downturn, when dependence on external debt finance increases.