The Council normally extends the mission every six months, but the standoff prevented a six-month extension.
While disagreeing on tactics, both have made it clear that time is short, probably measured in months, to resolve the standoff over Iran's nuclear program.
But it attracted the votes of many Democrats, if only because the many months of standoff had brought the country perilously close to default.
The standoff lasted months and cost India thousands of crores – millions of pounds.
Negotiators have already largely agreed on the revenue split, which was at the heart of the standoff for months and which was the most critical issue.
The challenges to its new leadership are clear: the need for financial reform; the perils of shadow banking and corruption; thick urban pollution; and, above all, the free flow of information, as seen in the standoff this month between a state censor in Guangzhou and journalists at the Southern Weekend and their supporters.
The seven-month standoff between the United States and Pakistan over the closure of Nato supply routes should be seen in the context of choices each country has been making in resolving the conflict in Afghanistan.
In spite of this, the standoff continued for months and grew violent as fighting increased between forces loyal to Gbagbo and those who supported Ouattara, creating a crisis with political, economic, and humanitarian dimensions that lingered even after Gbagbo was arrested on April 11 , 2011 and removed from power.
This move followed months of standoff and the capture of Yugoslav military installations in Dalmatia and elsewhere.
The government did not immediately move to take Elian, and the standoff of more than four months continued.
