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

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,

Firstly, the initiative presented by Ambassador Chris Sanders, the  food for thought document, which puts forward interesting procedural and substantive proposals with the aim of breaking the current impasse.

Making Sense of the Climate Impasse

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,

We were at an impasse earlier this morning.

Reiterating its call upon the parties and States of the region to continue to cooperate fully with the United Nations to end the current impasse and to achieve progress towards a political solution,

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.

It is crucial for us all to work together to try to end the current impasse in the negotiations of a comprehensive convention on international terrorism, so that we can conclude the convention as soon as possible.

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

The Advisory Committee notes the observation of the Secretary General concerning the impasse regarding the current methodology for submission of data, with one group of Member States expressing satisfaction with the current methodology, preferring that it be maintained, and another believing that it is flawed and requires further refinement (see A 59 292, paras.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Regardless of how the current impasse is resolved, the ruling raises many questions for issuers and holders of sovereign debt. If creditors now believe that holding out makes it more likely that they will receive full value at a later date, restructuring sovereign debt and restoring a debtor economy s normal functioning will be more difficult.

The Committee will maintain its support for revitalized and active international involvement aimed at encouraging both parties to overcome the current impasse in the peace process, including through the Quartet and the continued personal engagement of the Secretary General of the United Nations and the United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process.

In the wake of the recent failed history of disarmament diplomacy and the continued non compliance with and the non entry into force of key multilaterally negotiated disarmament instruments, it becomes of vital importance that we continue our deliberations on how to overcome the current impasse and move ahead to execute our mandated agenda.

Undoubtedly, overcoming the current impasse in the peace process in the Middle East requires intensified and concerted international efforts to achieve a peaceful settlement that will enhance peace in the region through the implementation of the relevant United Nations resolutions particularly Security Council resolutions 242 (1967) and 338 (1973), as well as other resolutions.

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

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 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.

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.

Ms. Schöpp Schilling said she appreciated the difficulties surrounding abortion but insisted that the Government had an obligation to recognize the health and human rights dimensions of the issue and could not simply say that it had no plans to revisit it, which would be to accept the inequality of results produced by the current 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

The question is whether this Greater Eurasia can help Europe find a way through its current security impasse. Some in Europe will doubtless prefer to strengthen the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe but the truth is that the OSCE, burdened by its Cold War history and its failure to secure the post Cold War peace, is too tarnished to play a decisive role.

The global economic crisis and new fears of US protectionism have motivated India to rethink its attitude toward the Doha Development Round. If Obama can weather domestic resistance to new international trade negotiations and modify America s current position on sectoral tariff reduction by developing countries, the US and India will have an opportunity to break the impasse that has stymied the Doha Round s successful conclusion.

But, by continuing to build settlements on Palestinian land, the Israeli government has undermined the authority of Abbas and his Fatah government almost to the point of impotence. More and more Palestinians, fed up with the futility of what is still called the peace process, believe that Fatah s fierce rival, Hamas, the Islamist movement that rules Gaza, has more effective ways to break the current impasse.

Lastly, he asserted that it would be impossible to deal with the worsening humanitarian situation in the occupied Palestinian territories without effectively addressing the issue of the Israeli occupation and attendant practices in the context of international and regional efforts to move beyond the current impasse in the peace process with a view to achieving a just and comprehensive settlement of the Palestinian question.

In 2004, the Government of Guam narrowly avoided a Government shutdown when the Legislature and the Governor experienced a serious impasse on the budget for the fiscal year 2005.