So we started out thinking this was a stopgap measure.

One of its major functions should be to help ensure predictable financing for early recovery activities an important stopgap measure to overcome delays in disbursement.

Under continued market pressure, the European Council might have to find a stopgap arrangement to avoid a calamity. It could authorize the ECB to lend directly to governments that cannot borrow from the markets on reasonable terms until a eurobond regime is introduced.

We wish, however, to reiterate the Nigerian position that such an instrument should be considered as only a stopgap measure, for we believe that it is only through a legally binding international instrument that the transfer of small arms and light weapons to non State actors can be controlled and criminalized.

Building up Afghanistan s security forces is at most a stopgap measure, as the country cannot sustain forces of the size that it now needs. Only a regional and global agreement to place Afghanistan s stability above other objectives can make long term stability possible by enabling Afghanistan to survive with security forces that it can afford.

The bill that Abe has submitted aims to establish a Japanese National Security Council, based on lessons from the successes and failures of similar institutions in other countries, such as the NSC in the United States. The Security Council of Japan something of a stopgap measure created to provide advice from relevant cabinet members to the prime minister in times of crisis will now be reorganized as a formal institution.