Ms. Wang Xinxia (China) said that the current scale methodology had been agreed after long hours of difficult negotiations.

All those who made this possible through painstaking and complicated negotiations, with persistent efforts and tenacity, are to be commended.

All those who made that possible through painstaking and complicated negotiations, with persistence and tenacity of effort, are to be commended.

Mr. Bernardini (Italy), introducing draft resolution A C.2 59 L.67, observed that difficult negotiations had in the end produced a good text.

Tough as negotiations can be on these issues, they simply cannot be shelved.

After long and difficult negotiations the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty was concluded. The Kingdom of Morocco signed the Treaty on 24 September 1996 in New York.

The Shannon report was not easily arrived at it was the result of hard negotiations, the common denominator of all the interests concerned representing a delicate balance of concerns for all the parties.

Negotiations turned out to be rather difficult because of efforts to introduce political elements which, we feel, were not appropriate in a text of this nature.

Hard Landings

Definition of hardship

Life has been very hard.

That's tough.

Even though agreement had been reached after lengthy and arduous negotiations on the first two chapters of the agenda for development, the substantive content of the third chapter still needed to be strengthened.

Some years ago, I was involved as a facilitator in some very tough talks between the leaders of Russia and the leaders of Chechnya.

Of a tough neighborhood.

But the Conference still faces the demanding task of finding ways to move forward.

Those negotiations made concrete progress last year in some difficult and controversial areas.

Exceptions authorized for cases involving arduous journey, 1 July 1997 30 June 1998

The positive result achieved in that round embodied the political will of the leaders and Governments of the six countries to resolve the nuclear issue through dialogue. That result is also the product of over two years of intensive negotiations and unremitting efforts.

They work in the field.

This work is laborious and time consuming.

We were really on our arse then.

It's very harsh conditions.

I'm strong. I'm used to hard work.

For the purpose of the hardship scheme, hardship categorization assesses the overall quality of life at a duty station.

Mobility and hardship allowance

MOBILITY AND HARDSHIP

Mobility and hardship

It'll be tame after where you've been.

It was the longest and roughest operation I ever saw.

I think you did. I think you've had a hard, tough climb.

Today, I wish to limit my statement to nuclear disarmament, one of the hardest agenda items which the Conference on Disarmament has been addressing since its inception.

It's hard work every day.

So they really were working under tough conditions.

There are good times. There are bad times.

Tough job, driving a truck.

Here. In the dignity of toil.

Did you have a tough childhood, Mrs Taylor?

If you could see how hard we've been working here...

We also thank other Member States for coming to agreement after two weeks of difficult negotiations.

With regard to the mobility and hardship scheme, the decisions to separate the mobility element from the hardship element and to delink both the mobility and hardship allowances from the base floor salary scale were welcome.

C. Mobility and hardship allowance

And I've got to fight for my country a hard way.

What do you know about toil?

(e) The hardship element of the allowance shall be payable to eligible project personnel who are assigned to duty stations which carry a hardship entitlement, as determined by the Secretary General.