Neither the UN-REDD Programme nor any of its partner UN agencies have been involved in any action to expel any people from the Mau forest or anywhere else.

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Nor should Mr Putin's continued blocking of UN Security Council resolutions authorising intervention in Syria be treated as an insurmountable bar to action, any more than it was in Kosovo in 1999.

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Nor to the presentation then-Secretary of State Colin Powell made on the subject to the UN Security Council the following month.

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Israel's peace treaties with Egypt (1979) and Jordan (1994) are instructive that neither nationalism nor religion are insurmountable obstacles to reaching an Arab-Israeli settlement on Palestine as proposed in the UN plan of 1947.

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