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The right to independence had been seen as opposition to the United States but now that the Cold War was over, and colonialism could not be justified, things had changed.

Considering measurement in a practical way needs to ask what can be measurable.

While concerns about man-portable air defence systems are very serious, authorities in the region and security agencies around the globe have acknowledged the fact that other weapons that are largely available in Libya, such as explosives, rocket-propelled grenades, anti-tank guided weapons and heavy machine guns, are likely to be particularly attractive for use in insurgencies and to increase the capacity of armed or terrorist groups to fight regular military forces.

She pointed out that any process of decentralization puts into question old habits, practices, acquired advantages and visions and must be accompanied by a change of culture and of mentality in order to succeed.

At the same time, the lack of progress in nuclear disarmament is not the only challenge facing the international community, as some nuclear-weapon States are proliferating nuclear weapons horizontally and vertically by continuing nuclear-weapon-sharing arrangements with non-nuclear-weapon States and other nuclear-weapon States alike.

Al-Sulayman emphasizes that the massacre, timed to coincide with the arrival in Syria of the United Nations Special Envoy Kofi Annan, was carried out by the armed terrorist groups as part of a plan to make the international community believe that Syria was on the brink of civil war: those groups had failed to undermine Syria, which had responded to all constructive initiatives by offering genuine cooperation.

Nevertheless, in discussions we had, there remains some confusion as to the respective roles of the governing bodies in providing strategic direction and at what points that direction is best provided during each biennium.

In each of these positions, AWEYS's statements and actions have demonstrated an unequivocal and sustained intention to dismantle the TFG and expel AMISOM by force from Somalia.

Accordingly, it requests States to adopt measures, including legislation, to prevent and eliminate formal and informal discrimination and to ensure that individuals and entities in the private sphere donot discriminate on prohibited grounds.

At the time, Brazil did not have a leniency programme and as a result, was unable to attract the same level of cooperation from the cartelists as other jurisdictions.

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We have developed a beautiful school garden and hold bi-monthly community garden days where staff and families come together to have fun and work together on behalf of the school.

He entertained the children with his pranks but also engaged them in a collective hand-washing activity.

Research on important diseases or new crops affecting developing countries, but carried out in developed countries, may be hampered or promoted by the IP system.

We might say that the international community views the United Nations through the prism of the Security Council and the resolutions it takes, but it is also correct to say that it is urgent to clarify the reasons for the Council’s failure to find solutions to issues so that all of the Member States can help settle those problems.

A few days ago, Mr. Posada Carriles admitted in an interview on CNN in Spanish to being a CIA agent and boasted of having carried out numerous political assassinations in several Latin American countries.

Every national project is at core designed to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, specially adapted to the Russian Federation in 2005 as part of a United Nations Development Programme project.

A toolbox of development-enhancing trade and related policies could be considered, combining a trade-led growth model with proactive, modern industrial and labour-market policies adapted to an increasingly open trade environment.

A far greater challenge involves understanding why so many ethnic Somali youth have become so susceptible to radicalization and recruitment in their home countries, and beginning to address the root causes.

In emergency situations, education provides physical, psychosocial and cognitive protection, which could be both life-sustaining and life-saving, and that education in emergencies offered an opportunity to build back better and work with government and communities for social transformation by creating programmes which allowed excluded groups, like young children, girls, adolescents and disabled children, to attend school, improving access and quality of education.

To see whether roosters simply crow in response to external stimuli or according to a circadian rhythm—an internally driven, cyclical pattern of behavior that occurs over a 24-hour period—the team put one group of birds into a room with continuously dim lights and tracked the birds' crowing over the course of a month.

It wouldbe interesting to see how the Secretariat planned to manage surge and standby capacity requirements, further develop the integrated mission planning process and improve the timeliness of staff recruitment and appointment.

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Accordingly, peacekeeping operations should comply strictly with the mandate conferred upon them by the Security Council, respect the sovereignty of the parties, guard against their own members becoming involved in conflicts, desist from attempts at regime change and ensure that activities conducted ostensibly to protect civilians did not in fact cause more civilian casualties.