However, councillor Richard Cornelius insists Barnet Council have offered a resolution to the current stand-off.
Even a continuation of the current stand-off between the Kremlin and the West would be bad enough for business.
Last night, he described the current stand-off as "Europe's biggest crisis since the fall of the wall".
Cadbury ended around 1.5 percent higher but investors remain skeptical that the current stand-off between the two companies can be ended.
All told, there is far more at stake in the current stand-off in South Ossetia than control over 2,500 square kilometres of sparsely populated territory of little economic value.
Many Lebanese, including quite a few Shias, now accuse the group of holding the country hostage to Iranian policy, particularly during the current stand-off between Iran and Israel.Examples of recent sectarian hostility proliferate.
Whilst the Tolmachevy twins refused to discuss the current stand-off, Yaremchuck, 21, a supporter of Ukraine's Party of Regions, the previous ruling political force under ousted President Viktor Yanukovych, seized her moment.
As a result, many Middle Easterners see the current stand-off not as the upholders of international law and order challenging a rogue state, but as the great powers ganging up to crush an upstart rival.
Talks between Iran and the United States to resolve the current stand-off over the Middle Eastern country's nuclear programme are entering their final hours ahead of a deadline this evening.
There is some allure, therefore, in a solution to the current stand-off that would allow American, Japanese and South Korean aid and investment to flow in more freely and thereby reduce North Korea's reliance on China.
Even as the current stand-off might be coming to a conclusion, with the LTTE reportedly offering a ceasefire, there are also grave concerns about the long-term implications of this decades-old conflict on the ethnic Tamil community.
