Pakistan and India, the world's two newest nuclear powers, regularly skirmish in Kashmir, which has been the main issue between overwhelmingly Muslim Pakistan and Hindu India since the two nations were created from the British Raj in 1947, leaving the status of the Himalayan territory unresolved.
But the two sides have a history of making deals and never fully carrying them out, and many thorny issues — especially over disputed territory — remain unresolved.
However, Nato is unlikely to admit Ukraine as long as the conflict on its territory is unresolved, according to the terms of the alliance's enlargement policy.
Two-thirds of Kashmir has been occupied by India and one-third by Pakistan since the two nations gained independence in 1947 and the future of the territory was left unresolved by Britain.
"In Loreto province alone there are hundreds of requests for environmental concessions by NGOs and private investors while thousands of hectares of indigenous territory applications remain unresolved". Several British-based companies are said to be linked to offset deals, says the report.
Unfortunately, the crisis in Ukraine is not the only unresolved conflict in the OSCE territory.
The greatest hurdle was then to convince them that Washington was doing its best to persuade Israel to ease its grip on the occupied territories, an issue unresolved three decades later.
South Ossetia declared independence in 1990 and Abkhazia in 1992; despite the relatively short duration of the initial conflicts, with ceasefires declared in 1992 and 1994, respectively, the statuses of these territories have remained unresolved (Wheatley, 2005; Popescu, 2010).
According to Pakistan and to United Nations resolutions, Kashmir remains a disputed territory, its final status unresolved.
Meanwhile, the status of the disputed territory of Abyei remains unresolved, though it has been in the hands of the Sudanese Armed Forces since May.
