Of course, the mandates of peacekeeping operations need to be more ambitious. They should include more peacebuilding activities, particularly during protracted conflicts.

Protracted refugee situations, which had lasted for more than five years, were a different type of obstacle.

Protracted situations

At the beginning of 2004, 38 protracted refugee situations accounted for 6.2 million refugees who had been in exile for five or more years.

Farther afield, we have also assisted the responses to protracted crises in Africa, including in the Sudan, the Niger, Malawi and in southern Africa more broadly.

Many protracted situations remain, with little prospect of early solutions.

The tragedy of that protracted stagnation isn't sufficiently recognized, I think.

Our young democracy is struggling with the difficulties of transition and suffers as it has for more than 13 years from a protracted, unsolved conflict inspired and supported from abroad.

UNHCR and its resettlement partners also sought to use resettlement more strategically, to maximize benefits for resettled refugees, facilitate comprehensive solutions to protracted refugee situations, improve the asylum space in countries of asylum and share burdens and responsibilities more equitably.

They have also accumulated large protracted arrears with the international financial institutions.

Future efforts will focus on situation specific approaches, notably for protracted refugee situations.

Ms. Mtawali (United Republic of Tanzania) said that her Government continued to host the largest protracted refugee caseload in Africa and that it needed more international assistance to provide essential facilities and services.

Those protracted conflict situations are terrible problems for the regions in which they linger.

As I observed in my last report, however, the protracted stalemate is inherently destabilizing.

China should brace itself for a period of deflation, which may be even more protracted than the last one. But, with the right approach and a bit of good luck it can make sure that, this time, it recovers more sustainably than in the past.

New Zealand was not prepared to continue the protracted and inconclusive process for another decade.

Protracted check ins and check outs reduce the effective stay of UNMOs in the field.

Protracted civil conflicts have provoked some of the largest occurrences of forced displacement in recent times.

In 2004, some two thirds of the global refugee population remained in limbo in protracted situations.

This brings us to a third, and even more unsettling possibility a longer and more protracted negotiation, resulting in greater disruptions to government entitlement payments, other contractual obligations, and public services. Creditors would then ask many more questions before adding to their already considerable holdings of US government debt, generating still more headwinds in a US economy that already faces an unemployment crisis and uneven growth.

While the share of the least developed countries in world trade was still minimal, even more worrying was their future in the multilateral trading system, as their accession to the World Trade Organization remained a protracted and complex process.

People without income or security fall prey to crime and violence, and often get trapped in protracted conflict.

The protracted nature of the conflict and lack of active hostilities meant that international attention had also faded.

Resettlement was another important solution for refugees, particularly for the many who lived in limbo in protracted situations.

The adoption of section XI of General Assembly resolution 59 276 had been the result of protracted negotiations.

Although the number of conflicts has decreased during the last 10 years, today's conflicts tend to be protracted.

Protracted displacement with little hope of solutions in sight remains the situation of millions of displaced persons worldwide.

Many protracted situations remain, with little prospect of early solutions. The situation in Darfur remains of gravest concern.

These protracted delays are dangerous and have contributed to a deep uncertainty that continues to affect Côte d'Ivoire.

However, there have been protracted and dangerous delays in the implementation of other key provisions of the Pretoria Agreement.

Moreover, the protracted negotiations on the draft decision had delayed the adoption of a number of important draft resolutions.

The United Nations needs to reach out more systematically to those regional organizations, and steps should be taken to increase their accountability, particularly in the case of protracted or frozen conflicts, where a situation does not improve or even worsens over the years.

I reiterate my earlier call on the witnesses to the Algiers Agreements, and especially on those States having influence with the parties, to play a more concerted role with a view to assisting the parties in breaking the protracted and dangerous stalemate.

When We bless man, he is disregardful and turns aside but when an ill befalls him, he makes protracted supplications.

When We bless man, he is disregardful and turns aside but when an ill befalls him, he makes protracted supplications.

Burundi had recently emerged from a protracted period of civil war, but recent elections had given the country democratic institutions.

If you think of it, the whole system of public education around the world is a protracted process of university entrance.

These costs might result, for example, from debt relief for countries which may enter the HIPC process or for protracted arrears.

A protracted hostage situation involving United Nations staff in Kabul was successfully resolved during the months of October and November 2004.

A protracted hostage situation involving United Nations staff in Afghanistan was successfully resolved during the months of October and November 2004.

UNHCR must play a mobilizing role in that area and focus greater attention on the necessity of resolving protracted refugee problems.

Unless decisions were taken by consensus, Member States would not support or trust the new body, and negotiations would be protracted.

Investors were originally worried that the protracted legal battle would only further hit the electric car company, which was still losing money.

Now, however, a new generation of organized criminal groups is emerging from States embroiled in or emerging from protracted periods of conflict.

Meanwhile, millions remained trapped in situations of protracted displacement, significantly reducing their ability to exercise the full range of their human rights.