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

Protracted rescheduling negotiations and the associated onerous conditionalities are compounding the uncertainties facing policy makers in the region.

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

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

Such guidelines will prevent the analysis from requiring protracted annual negotiations before it can be prepared for the benefit of Member States.

Protracted situations

In addition, every effort must be made to surmount the protracted political impasse at the Conference on Disarmament and to begin negotiations on the fissile material cut off treaty.

In Ukraine, this event is perceived as evidence of the fact that even the most complicated and protracted conflicts can and should be settled by political means, through negotiations.

While protracted negotiations were under way on an optional protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child which might raise the minimum age for military service, it would be inappropriate for the General Assembly to prejudge the outcome of those negotiations.

52. Jamaica was gratified to learn of the positive outcome of the difficult and protracted negotiations on the resolution on small Territories which had resulted in its adoption by consensus.

WFP protracted refugee and displaced projects

Women's needs and concerns continued to be ignored in peace agreements, and women's organizations are often not given the necessary support to enable them to participate, especially in protracted peace negotiations.

That decision, in many respects, was the culmination of longstanding dreams and of a commitment made real through years of protracted struggle and negotiations leading up to the Bougainville Peace Agreement.

After protracted negotiations, Paris Club creditors agreed to provide relief that went beyond the 80 per cent reduction under the Lyon terms, including special treatment of post cut off date debt.

There have been similar revaluations in the past and it is quite possible that additional revaluations will occur in the future, following upon protracted negotiations with the Member States that are involved.

The adoption of An Agenda for Development this year, following protracted and tortuous negotiations over a period of three years, is a welcome sign for the renewal of development cooperation between the North and South.

Owing to protracted negotiations on the final day of the session, no time was available for major groups to make closing statements, but these statements were later made available on the website of the Commission's secretariat.

Conversely, where important issues remain open after the selection process and little guidance is provided to the negotiators as to the substance of the project agreement, there might be considerable risk of costly and protracted negotiations.

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

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

Twelve months of protracted negotiations between the Government of Israel and the Palestinian Authority on these matters will allow Israel to complete construction of the wall, the consolidation of settlement blocks, and fundamental changes to the character of Jerusalem.

111. When the conference had concluded its work, there must be a mechanism to bring the negotiations to an end even if unanimity had not been reached as in the process leading to a ban on landmines, it was unacceptable for negotiations to be protracted unnecessarily through insistence on consensus, as the result was an alternative process.

As stated by Her Excellency the Vice President of the Gambia during the special session, The difficult and protracted negotiations and the intellectual, expert and statesmanlike efforts that made these agreements possible reflected the goodwill and good faith of all Governments ...

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

Often protracted, such conflicts expose successive generations of children to horrendous violence.

The issue of performance bond, and labour and material bond was the subject of protracted negotiations between the Secretariat and the contractor, who had claimed that it was unable to secure a performance bond in the form required by the United Nations.

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

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.

Any pause in this sphere, especially a protracted one, may turn into a setback.

a Including country strategy outlines, development projects and protracted refugee and displaced person projects.

Demonstrations and protracted negotiations were followed by the intervention of British security forces in 1969 and the Anguilla Act of 1971, whereby the United Kingdom reassumed direct responsibility for administration of the Territory, appointed a Commissioner and provided for the establishment of an Island Council.

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.

The same is true for the still unresolved and protracted conflicts in the Black Sea area.

The protracted payment period is a major contributor to the tight cash situation of the Organization.

In addition, they are prevented for very protracted periods of time from talking with their families.

The General Assembly of the Organization of American States had recently issued a Declaration on the Question of the Malvinas Islands (Falkland Islands), in which it reiterated the need to begin negotiations as soon as possible, to resolve the protracted sovereignty dispute between Argentina and the United Kingdom.

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

The others are all national southern organizations, more frequently involved in protracted refugee operations or development projects.

Many societies exposed to protracted conflicts have seen their community values radically undermined if not shattered altogether.

Negotiations evolve.

In 2001, Irish voters rejected the Nice Treaty, which threw the EU into a protracted period of crisis and introspection, which ended only with agreement on the so called Constitutional Treaty in 2005. Almost immediately, however, French and Dutch voters rejected that Treaty, bringing the negotiations back to square one.