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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Such situations are additional to long standing complex emergency situations, while new ones are rising as a result of armed conflicts, many of them in developing countries.

The WTO General Council decision of 1 August 2004 (July package) WT L 579 responded to those concerns by reaffirming the importance of long standing trade preferences.

The special case of long standing signatory States to a human rights treaty should be considered in the light of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties.

She was therefore convinced of the need, in the long term, to consolidate the working of the treaty bodies through the creation of a unified, standing treaty body.

building up important bridges and ties. Li Keqiang pointed out that both China and Russia are possessed of long standing cultural traditions and profound cultural heritages.

There was a long standing request for the CPC structure to be more responsive to the needs of agricultural statistics, requiring more detail in this area.

The Group faces a dilemma in regard to the long standing contention by the Kampala authorities that much of the Ugandan gold derives from domestic mining.

She called on the President of the United States to put an end to the long standing discrimination against Puerto Ricans by granting the island statehood.

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.

This election afforded an opportunity to return to the long standing issue of double citizenship and the related issue of dual voting rights for Bosnia and Herzegovina Croats.

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.

1.23 UNRWA enjoys close cooperation and long standing partnerships with a number of UN organizations including UNAIDS, UNDP, UNESCO, UNFPA, UN Habitat, UNHCR, WFP, UNICEF and WHO.