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Even where new examiners have been appointed, it is still unlikely that the patent system will satisfy the demands for quick and relatively inexpensive delivery of high quality patents.

[...] disparities had been aggravated by the “financial paradox” of the international [...] [...]

The volume of policy evaluations and academic literature on post-conflict countries is now vast, but their conclusions emphasize two explanations for the discouraging results they document: a donor-driven agenda, and what one might call the paradox of international State-building.

We all agree on the paradox that the African continent produces few weapons but is beset by the scourge of the illicit arms traffic, the consequences of which range from massive violations of human rights and international humanitarian law due to violence to the phenomenon of child soldiers and the traffic in small arms and light weapons, as well as to an almost endless list of such phenomena as terrorist networks and piracy in certain areas of the continent.

The dangers of this approach are that the paradox of State-building — designing governance processes as aid-delivery mechanisms, with the accompanying fragmentation and lack of strategy — will grow more pronounced; alternatives under current conditions of global financial and economic crisis will not be explored; and an increasing number of resources will be consumed by the international coordination process rather than by country-programmable aid.

In her conclusion, ADG/CLT pointed [...] [...]

In Latin America — the region to which my Government is committed — we live the daily paradox of poverty in the midst of the best basic conditions for generating wealth.

For example, his mission to Mexico, where the right to food was a constitutional right, had highlighted a paradox in that country: while there were significant numbers of very poor people who were malnourished, 70 per cent of the adult population was overweight or obese.

In terms of a conclusion, a paradox [...]

Let us be true to our purpose and let us not open the way for a paradox whereby, in the midst of renewed momentum in the multilateral disarmament agenda and recent modest but encouraging signs pointing towards the reduction of stocks, the negotiations that ought to take place in this Conference are not even able to begin.

However, many resource-rich countries that China does business with have fallen victim to the ‘resource curse’ – the paradox that countries and regions with an abundance of minerals and hydrocarbons tend to have less economic growth, more conflict and corruption, and worse development outcomes than countries with fewer natural resources.

The concurrence of high vulnerability to the risk of external shocks and relative prosperity in comparison with other types of economies (the “island paradox”) was noted as a unique characteristic of SIDS.

[...] [...] inconsistent with World Trade Organization [...] [...]

The mission of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) to Bosnia and Herzegovina and the United Nations Development Programme welcomed the decision in the light of the recent weapons exports by Bosnia and Herzegovina to Armenia and Azerbaijan in breach of the Bosnia and Herzegovina commitments to the OSCE Principles Governing Conventional Arms Transfers, and in conflict with the European Union Council Common Position 2008/944/CFSP.

The representative concluded by saying that UNASUR rejected the United Kingdom’s conduct of military exercises in the Islands, which ran counter to the region’s policy of seeking to resolve the dispute by exclusively peaceful means (see A/C.4/66/SR.5).

One of the documents currently before the committee (A/C.5/63/3/Add.1) was presented as containing the views of Secretariat staff, but in fact it contained views of both management and staff representatives, some of whom were not even part of the Secretariat, as required by General Assembly resolution 35/213 and regulation 8.2 of the Staff Regulations.

For its part, Eritrea is not willing to endorse invasion and domination under the umbrella of IGAD and be party to the atrocities perpetrated against the Somali people in contravention of justice and truth.

Having agreed that the Secured Transactions Guide was consistent with the guiding principles of UNCITRAL texts on e-commerce, the Working Group also considered certain issues arising from the use of electronic communications in security rights registries to ensure that, like the Secured Transactions Guide, the text on registration would also be consistent with those principles (A/CN.9/714, paras. 34-47).

Accordingly, the Plurinational State of Bolivia has not enacted any laws or applied any measures that restrict trade with any country, including the fraternal Republic of Cuba, as they would be contrary to the purposes of General Assembly resolution 64/6.