In his November report to the General Assembly and the Security Council on the peaceful settlement of the question of Palestine, Secretary-General Annan cautioned that the situation had deteriorated, undermining many of the past achievements of the peace process.
Despite the settlement of this case, The Atlantic Wire reports that questions about the treatment of elephants in circus-type shows continue to linger.
These include signs that the authorities in Jakarta are more committed to a settlement of the Aceh question than before.
There will be no end to the vicious circle of escalating violence without a political settlement of the Palestine question.
What we need is less symbolism and more diplomatic heavy-lifting aimed at a practical settlement of the Tibet question.
His settlement of the Bechuanaland question was also soon threatened, for the deputy commissioner in the new area antagonized the Boers.
Convinced that further resistance was useless, Peel proffered his resignation and urged the prime minister to make a final settlement of the Catholic question.
When Lord Salisbury's short-lived Conservative government rejected Gladstone's proposal for a new bipartisan settlement of the Irish question in January 1886, the Act of Union became the most divisive issue in British politics.
Indeed, the London debt agreement deferred settlement of the reparations question – including the repayment of war debts and contributions imposed by Germany during the war – to a conference to be held after unification.
For Palestinian leaders, John Paul II is the pope who began his papacy by telling the United Nations in 1979 that Middle East peace talks "cannot fail to include the consideration and just settlement of the Palestinian question".
