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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Because of this diversification, concerns have been raised that in case of crisis it would be difficult to reach an orderly and collaborative debt restructuring agreement and that aggressive creditor litigations and protracted negotiations would lead to a stalemate or produce an outcome which would not correspond to the financial needs of debtor countries.

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.

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.

Recognizing the complementarity of bilateral, plurilateral and multilateral negotiations on nuclear disarmament, and that bilateral negotiations can never replace multilateral negotiations in this respect,

Recognizing the complementarity of bilateral, plurilateral and multilateral negotiations on nuclear disarmament, and that bilateral negotiations can never replace multilateral negotiations in this respect,

Recognizing the complementarity of bilateral, plurilateral and multilateral negotiations on nuclear disarmament, and that bilateral negotiations can never replace multilateral negotiations in this respect,

Negotiations must continue.

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.

If negotiations truly need proper argumentation of this sort, it surely makes sense that many differences are resolved outside the context of negotiations. Likewise, certain negotiations are not negotiations at all, but are better understood as processes of extortion and blackmail.