Germany has long standing ties with Afghanistan.

The European Community has long standing experience in helping to stabilize countries emerging from conflicts in all possible corners of the world from the Balkans to Indonesia, from Afghanistan to Africa.

Strengthening our ties with Africa has been a long standing aspiration of Brazil's.

There has been a recent reversal in the long standing tendency to place all protected areas under highly centralized management.

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OIOS is pleased to note that considerable effort has been made during the reporting period to address some of the long standing critical recommendations.

Flouting international law was a long standing practice of the Israeli leadership.

Now behavior change is something that is a long standing problem in medicine.

This regulation constitutes a long standing demand on the part of social movements.

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.

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The paragraphs in question undermined long standing agreement concerning the financing of peacekeeping operations.

We must avoid one long standing myth and stop equating multilateralism with absolute consensus.

The disagreement over the International Criminal Court (ICC) is long standing and well known.

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The work of the First Committee has a close and long standing connection to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) and the Chemical Weapons Convention.

Regional organizations, such as the African Union, have shown their commitment to resolving long standing conflicts.

Concern was also expressed about the long standing provisional status of the Council's rules of procedure.

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The stalemate in this long standing conflict has left tens of thousands of Saharan refugees living in deplorable conditions, relying for their survival on the generosity of the international community.

The long standing UNOPS partnership with IFAD, and services for GFATM and GAIN, will continue in 2005.

Among the reforms that have enjoyed Slovakia's long standing support is the reform of the Security Council.

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Because for so long I've been standing on the sidelines content to be a witness, just taking photographs.

This is a long standing Interpol policy, one that is shared by all the international law enforcement community.

The political will to remove long standing trade barriers would be the most critical element in this respect.

Because of a long standing lack of strategic expertise at the top, the Bank has lacked a clear direction. Many projects have catered to US corporate interests rather than to sustainable development.

Another long standing supporter of triangular cooperation has been the European Centre for Global Interdependence and Solidarity, better known as the North South Centre, established in 1989 by the Council of Europe.

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He has some experience in teaching English.

He has not only learning but experience.

These bodies are especially important in providing budgetary estimates, particularly for unfunded long term liabilities. As the experience of developed countries has shown, long term fiscal commitments, such as universal pensions and health care, can be easy to make, but difficult to fulfill.

21. Recognizes the difficulty of achieving the results of complex and long standing political activities within specific time frames

The issue of the full costs of delivering programmes is one of long standing concern to the Advisory Committee.

Lebanon s experience supports this assessment. Despite its long history of political violence, its creative industries are expanding.

The proposal for a standing fund for peacebuilding has merit.

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My Government appreciates the political obstacles faced by the two parties and encourages them to stay the course towards a peaceful settlement of what has been a long, complex and unpleasant experience.

He maintains that the long standing precedent of the Constitutional Court is to deny applications for amparo, rendering it ineffective.

Our long and bitter experience of war comes through human error, stupidity and a mutual lack of understanding.

A lot of the experience of people here who've been in the oceans for a long time has just been seeing this degradation, the places they saw that were beautiful getting worse, depressing.

The team noted the long standing military cooperation between the Syrian and Lebanese armies, which continues today even after the withdrawal.

Therefore, our delegation, reaffirming its long standing position on the Convention, will abstain in the voting that will take place shortly.

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