Примеры использования It was therefore surprising на Английском языке и их переводы на Русский язык
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It was therefore surprising that the issue kept resurfacing three decades later.
It was therefore surprising that the Legal Counsel had issued its nine-page accusation.
That had been consistent with the General Assembly's concern to eliminate as soon as possible the distortions in the applicable scale of assessments; it was therefore surprising that the Committee should attempt to hamper that process by introducing a three-step phase-out of the effects of the scheme of limits that was not compatible with resolution 48/223 B.
It was therefore surprising that the Secretariat had processed them for the consideration of the Fifth Committee.
In the same context, he said that the ONUMOZ budget included a provision for staff assessment for the local staff although, so far as he knew,local staff did not pay taxes to the Government of the United States; it was therefore surprising that the United States would have to pay 31 per cent of the amount budgeted for local staff assessment for local staff as a part of its ONUMOZ assessment.
It was therefore surprising that so little attention had been devoted to that option in the Secretary-General's report.
The issues involved were hardly new, and it was therefore surprising that doubts were being expressed about the value of the whole project; it seemed that States were reluctant to have any settlement, in particular a binding one, of responsibility for violating the rules that were established.
It was therefore surprising that one office should not have a guided tour service simply because it was unprofitable.
It was therefore surprising that year after year the resolution on the right to development should be called to a vote in both Geneva and New York.
It was therefore surprising that the progress report said nothing about productivity, either in terms of gains pursued or in terms of gains achieved.
It was therefore surprising that the Secretariat was seeking to charge a 13 per cent support cost to donors of such voluntary contributions.
It was, therefore, surprising that the Registrar, unlike all other parties involved, had questioned the objectivity and professionalism of the follow-up review.
It was therefore surprising that not until 22 November had the Democratic People's Republic of Korea announced its decision to ask for a separate vote on those provisions.
It was therefore surprising that the Special Rapporteur supported the sanctions against Burundi, which were unjust and affected the people most of all.
It was therefore surprising to learn now from paragraph 19 of the Secretary-General's report that there had been a change of position between July and November and that the resources had been found.
It was therefore surprising to hear Israel decrying Palestinian"terrorism", and even more so to hear it claim to be an island of democracy and development in a sea of dictatorships and backwardness.
It was therefore surprising that a few years later, a change had occurred in the authorities' attitude with regard to the confiscation of books for reasons which had been explained, but which were not completely convincing from a legal standpoint.
It was therefore surprising that the Family Unit had been reduced to a mere coordinating activity, and the representative asked about the grounds for such a decision, adding that clearly they could not be related to scarcity of resources.
It was therefore surprising that, despite an intensification of international efforts to move the peace process forward, the Israeli Government continued to encourage Israeli factions that supported the establishment of settlements in the Syrian Golan Heights.
It was therefore surprising that in the proposed programme budget for 1998-1999, it was proposed to abolish the D-1 post assigned to the Office of the Special Coordinator, the only post in the entire United Nations system responsible for activities relating to landlocked developing countries.
It was therefore surprised that some members were not satisfied with the results.
It is therefore surprising that, by interpreting General Assembly and Security Council resolutions in an arbitrary way, the representative of Croatia should oppose the positions taken by authoritative United Nations organs.
It is therefore surprising that the report refers to the organization in the territory of the Dominican Republic of operations aimed at overthrowing the constitutional order in Haiti.
It is, therefore, surprising that the strategic doctrines, those concerning nuclear weapons and the declared readiness to use them remain basically unchanged.
It is therefore surprising that only two days after the resolution was adopted, the Amir of Qatar, Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, made statements explicitly contradicting its spirit and letter.
It was therefore surprised at the references to Guatemala made in the report of the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences(E/CN.4/2002/83), which did not reflect either the provisions of the Penal Code or any widespread cultural practices.
Mr. Tosato(Italy) said that his delegation felt that the draft report should reflect the content of the discussion that had taken place; it was therefore surprised that amendments were being proposed that appeared to concern the substance of the discussion.
It was therefore surprised that the Commission had presented its work on the second and fundamental part of the topic, namely that relating to liability, in the form of draft principles.
It was therefore surprised to read in the first sentence of paragraph 82 of the report, that human rights ranked second among the concerns of the United Nations, Article I, paragraph 3 of the Charter of the United Nations notwithstanding.