The mayor said that he hoped the question of which was valid would be resolved through mediation.
Some are resolved through mediation while others have gone to court, where the children are forced to pay or are sometimes jailed for neglect.
Where the dispute was resolved through mediation, the online settlement would be enforceable only to the extent allowed by contract law.
He said that the inquiry would not begin until civil claims have been resolved through mediation or settled with compensation, and until Scotland Yard investigations into the conduct of two intelligence officers had been concluded.
Less than 1% of the complaints made to it ever go to adjudication; many more are resolved through "mediation", which, to outsiders and some complainants, looks suspiciously like stitching up a backroom deal.
In a situation currently marked by threats of the use of power, Carter has stood by the principles that conflicts must as far as possible be resolved through mediation and international cooperation based on international law, respect for human rights and economic development.
"In a situation currently marked by threats of the use of power," the Nobel citation read, "Carter has stood by the principles that conflicts must as far as possible be resolved through mediation and international cooperation based on international law, respect for human rights and economic development".
"In a situation currently marked by threats of the use of power, Carter has stood by the principles that conflicts must as far as possible be resolved through mediation and international cooperation based on international law, respect for human rights, and economic development," the citation said.
"In a situation currently marked by threats of the use of power," the citation read, "Carter has stood by the principles that conflicts must as far as possible be resolved through mediation and international cooperation based on international law, respect for human rights, and economic development".
When the Saudi-led group released a list of 13 "non-negotiable" demands for Qatar — including shutting down Al Jazeera and expelling a number of people deemed terrorists — the State Department suggested that they were unreasonable and that the terrorism funding issue was a smokescreen for long-standing regional grievances that should be resolved through mediation and negotiation.
