The purpose of this meeting was kidnapped through tortuous manipulations.

Since the early 1990s, our country has travelled a tortuous path.

Timing is another problem. Legislative processes are slow and often tortuous, while international diplomacy can change overnight, owing to shifting coalitions, unexpected opportunities, and well hidden traps.

3.4 The author finally claims a violation of article 7 of the Covenant in that it allows abortion which he defines as a cruel, tortuous and inhuman practice.

The adoption of An Agenda for Development this year, following protracted and tortuous negotiations over a period of three years, is a welcome sign for the renewal of development cooperation between the North and South.

Both sides have known throughout the tortuous negotiations of recent months that failure to reach an agreement would benefit no one. Greece s economy would contract even further, and its creditors would have to accept even larger write offs.

But instead of bashing or seeking to undermine Al Jazeera, politicians should encourage this bastion of free expression, recognizing that Arabs will need to endure a messy process on the way to democracy. Along that tortuous route, the world's major powers are bound to be offended, probably quite regularly.

Sadat s spectacular leap into the future needed to be met by Israel s prime minister, Menachem Begin, at almost every juncture down a tortuous road to peace. Arguably, only a political hawk like Begin, a man with a keen sense of the dramatic and a political romantic with a beady eye to the judgment of history, could have responded in such a way to Sadat s initiative.

It could, in effect, pave the way for the new Obama administration to convene an international conference to implement the two state solution for Palestine, which should follow the ceasefire. Such initiatives should not become bogged down in tortuous negotiations, but should focus on implementing the basic principles for a two state solution, along the lines proposed by the Clinton administration before it left office eight years ago.

But no solution is possible until we abandon the savings shortage and savings glut hypotheses and connect today s global financial imbalances with global production patterns and inadequate demand in developing countries. Tortuous claims that saving is merely the flip side of consumption and investment spending are the economic equivalent of Humpty Dumpty s argument in Through the Looking Glass When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean.

The Agenda is the result of tortuous and painstaking negotiations carried out over a period of four years. It is a matter of gratification to have achieved a development consensus that was so badly needed and clearly warranted. It is, of course, most vital that, along with the Agenda for Development, follow up and implementation should match the outcome of these conferences. Bangladesh believes that without the full involvement of civil society this process will remain incomplete.

Elsewhere on the continent, in Angola and in Somalia, the road to peace is winding if not tortuous and uncertainty continues to prevail. Allow me to pay once again from this rostrum a respectful tribute to the memory of Maître Alioune Blondin Beye, Special Representative of the Secretary General in Angola, and of his companions in misfortune, who included our fellow countryman Moctar Gueye, a journalist, all of whom died in an accident on the field of honour in the service of peace.

Achieving agreement in these circumstances was a major challenge for all of us involved in the long, tortuous and difficult negotiations. As one of those privileged to have had such a role, I can verify that there were times during the long days and nights in Castle Buildings, Belfast, when success seemed like some distant dream. But the determination of all sides not to be deflected was stronger than any obstacle. On the dawn of Good Friday, the dream of agreement finally became a reality.