Security Council, or its diplomatic leverage in Khartoum, to help resolve crises such as the five-year conflict in Darfur, Sudan.

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The organisation's secretary general, Francesco Frangialli, said in a statement that it was important that world tourism ministers demonstrated through their presence at the meetings that their sector was a resilient one which had demonstrated many times in the past its ability to overcome problems and resolve crises.

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From 1998-2000, Roubini served as the senior economist for International Affairs at the White House Council of Economic Advisors and then the senior advisor to the under secretary for international affairs at the U.S. Treasury Department, helping to resolve the Asian and global financial crises among other issues.

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India knows that its ambition to be a global power will depend partly on its ability to mediate and resolve the rising number of crises in neighbouring countries.

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