Germany has long standing ties with Afghanistan.

How long have they been standing in what positions?

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.

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

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

And knowing that starts to explain a lot of long standing mysteries in science.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

How long that common heritage of mankind can continue to be kind to us is a question to which we must all find a collective solution.

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.

and gave their land for a heritage, a heritage to Israel, his people.

and gave their land for a heritage, a heritage to Israel, his people.

And gave their land for an heritage, an heritage unto Israel his people.

And gave their land for an heritage, an heritage unto Israel his people.

And in fact, that's actually sustaining a long standing trend that predates human beings, OK, that biological evolution was doing for us.

I urge the Council to exert that pressure in the context of OSCE mediation efforts to help resolve those long standing conflicts.

Mr. Yao Wenlong (China) said that development was a long standing goal, recently reaffirmed by national leaders in the 2005 World Summit Outcome.

The partnership between Asia and Africa is long standing and was further strengthened at the inaugural Asia Africa Conference in Bandung in 1955.

In 2007, the World Heritage Convention listed the Lavaux terrace vineyard as a world cultural heritage.

World Heritage Centre cooperation with the African Heritage School in the countries of the Accra Cluster

Mr. Guan Jian (China) said that long standing differences on the issue of State immunities and conflicting national practices had adversely affected international exchanges.

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

XII. Underwater cultural heritage

Cultural heritage key achievements

Similarly, the Advisory Committee recommended acceptance of the Secretary General's proposal for UNIFIL which, like UNDOF, was a long standing, stable, and well run mission.

The independent expert views these long standing bans as economically detrimental to Somalia, which relies on the livestock industry for much of its economic activity.

In 2003, the Government fulfilled a long standing commitment to make some of the shares of the Anguilla Electricity Company available to the general public.

As they grew more acute, many of the region's long standing problems of poverty, overpopulation and economic deprivation were threatening the stability of the region.

He said his Government would engage constructively and amicably in such a process, which coincides with its own long standing policy to the same effect.

It is obvious that long term preservation of cultural heritage in Kosovo, which includes Serbian Orthodox, Ottoman Islamic, Catholic and vernacular sites, must become an increasing priority in the coming months.

Protection for indigenous peoples' cultural heritage shall recognize the intrinsic link between indigenous cultural heritage and indigenous languages.