Mr Prescott has not yet revealed how he plans to solve the dispute.

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But since May 2012, Buzz score has been trending upwards under interim CEO, Ross Levinsohn, who worked with Facebook to solve the patent dispute.

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However, East Belfast MP Naomi Long - from Alliance - said unionists alone cannot solve the union flag dispute.

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Most importantly though, one should find pragmatic solutions to solve the recurrent norms dispute the EU and the US have frequently had (i.e. on low-key issues such as beef hormones).

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The city's youth need to get out of the mindset that violence is the only way to solve a dispute, he said.

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And Europe's aspirations for a bigger role in the world would be dented: if it cannot solve a dispute in its own back yard, how can it do much elsewhere?

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