Direct negotiations to determine the permanent status of Gaza and the West Bank had begun in September 1999 after a three-year hiatus, but have been derailed by the al-Aqsa Intifada that began in September 2000.

Direct negotiations between the EU and Canada eventually restarted, and a deal was reached on April 5.

: Direct bilateral negotiations will begin four days after the opening of the conference ... those ... focus on region-wide issues such as arms control and regional security, water, refugee issues, environment, economic development, and other subjects of mutual interest.

By the end of 1996, Martin Khor, Director of the Third World Network based in Malaysia, obtained a document prepared for the OECD Ministerial meeting of May 1995 as well as for future WTO negotiations by the European Commission ( Commission of the European Communities 1995: A Level Playing Field for Direct Investment World Wide, March 1, Brussels ).

Direct negotiations between Chile and Argentina began after the announcement of the binding arbitration ruling, on 2 May 1977, and ended with the Act of Montevideo, Uruguay, on 9 January 1979, where both countries accepted papal mediation after Argentina aborted Operation Soberanía.

Direct reciprocity and cooperation in a group can be increased by changing the focus and incentives from intra-group competition to larger scale competitions such as between groups or against the general population.

Although the terms are sometimes used interchangeably, there are important differences between cinéma vérité ( Jean Rouch ) and the North American " Direct Cinema " ( or more accurately " Cinéma direct "), pioneered by, among others, Canadians Allan King, Michel Brault and Pierre Perrault, and Americans Robert Drew, Richard Leacock, Frederick Wiseman and Albert and David Maysles.

The members of the task group were not able to come to an agreement choosing between two technology proposals, Multi-band Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing ( MB-OFDM ) and Direct Sequence UWB ( DS-UWB ), on the table backed by two different industry alliances and was withdrawn in January 2006.

Direct funding of the Contras insurgency had been made illegal through the Boland Amendment, the name given to three U. S. legislative amendments between 1982 and 1984 aimed at limiting US government assistance to the Contras militants.

Direct copying was supported between any two 8-bit registers and between any 8-bit register and an HL-addressed memory cell.

The problems associated with long-term weightlessness would be addressed in the same manner as the baseline Mars Direct plan, a tether between the Dragon habitat and the TMI ( Trans-Mars Injection ) stage acting to allow rotation of the craft.

Direct links between electrotonic coupling and wakefulness were provided by Beck et al.

Direct conflict between the East and West erupted in the Korean War, when the United Nations Security Council, with the absence of the Soviet Union at the time of the vote, voted for international intervention in Korea to stop the civil war.

Direct gap semiconductors are particularly important in optoelectronics because they are much more efficient as light emitters than indirect gap materials ; an electron movnig between two bands need not exchange momentum with phonons in the crystal lattice.

Direct maritime shipping commenced between the two countries in 2008 to supplement rail connections that remained uncertain.

Direct flights between Victoria and the San Francisco Bay Area ( San Francisco, Oakland, Silicon Valley ) began service on June 5, 2008 ( Victoria Times Colonist, February 6, 2008 ).

Direct copying is supported between any two 8-bit registers and between any 8-bit register and a HL-addressed memory cell.

In his 1920 book, Direct Action, William Mellor placed direct action firmly in the struggle between worker and employer for control " over the economic life of society.

NJ Transit currently operates weekday rail service between Netcong and Hoboken Terminal, with service to Penn Station in New York City via Midtown Direct.

Direct maritime trade between Europe and China started in the 16th century, after the Portuguese established the settlement of Goa, India in December 1510, and thereafter that of Macau in southern China in 1557.

* Direct to Physician-A engagement and transaction channel directly between health care companies and physicians

Direct travel between mainland China and Kinmen re-opened in 2001, and there has been extensive tourism development on the island in anticipation of mainland tourists.

Direct comparisons between Jōmon and Yayoi skeletons show that the two peoples are noticeably distinguishable.

Direct observation procedures are also used in research, for example to study the relationship between intrapsychic variables and specific target behaviors, or to explore sequences of behavioral interaction.

Then followed the rapid succession of the last Direct Capetian kings of France between 1314 and 1328, the three sons of Philip IV.

* Direct branches of the vertebral artery: The vertebral artery supplies an area between the other two main arteries, including the nucleus solitarius and other sensory nuclei and fibers.

Godalming railway station is on the Portsmouth Direct Line between London ( Waterloo ) and Portsmouth, and is served by South West Trains.

Direct comparison is, however, almost impossible due to the sheer size differences between the two media.

* 1854 May 14 – 15, The Texas State Convention of Germans meet in San Antonio and adopt a political, social and religious platform, including: 1 ) Equal pay for equal work ; 2 ) Direct election of the President of the United States ; 3 ) Abolition of capital punishment ; 4 ) “ Slavery is an evil, the abolition of which is a requirement of democratic principles ..”; 5 ) Free schools – including universities-supported by the state, without religious influence ; and 6 ) Total separation of church and state.

* 1854 May 14 – 15, The Texas State Convention of Germans meet in San Antonio and adopt a political, social and religious platform, including: 1 ) Equal pay for equal work ; 2 ) Direct election of the President of the United States ; 3 ) Abolition of capital punishment ; 4 ) “ Slavery is an evil, the abolition of which is a requirement of democratic principles ..”; 5 ) Free schools – including universities-supported by the state, without religious influence ; and 6 ) Total separation of church and state.

: May 14 – 15, San Antonio-The Texas State Convention of Germans adopt a political, social and religious platform, including: 1 ) Equal pay for equal work ; 2 ) Direct election of the President of the United States ; 3 ) Abolition of capital punishment ; 4 ) “ Slavery is an evil, the abolition of which is a requirement of democratic principles ..”; 5 ) Free schools – including universities-supported by the state, without religious influence ; and 6 ) Total separation of church and state.

* Chief of the Army Air Corps ( Direct subordination ), 19 May 1941-1 April 1942

1976 saw the withdrawal of the Paris – Athens direct service, and in 1977, the Direct Orient Express was withdrawn completely, with the last Paris – Istanbul service running on May 19 of that year.

On May 3, 2003, a detachment of U. S. Army Special Forces led by United States Navy Commander David Beckett and eight nuclear experts from the United States Department of Defense's Direct Support Team conducted a survey of the facility, finding the looting, similar to the situation in the nearby Tuwaitha Nuclear Research Center.

ING Direct began operations in the UK in May 2003 and has over one million customers.

In May 1910 she finished her paper, “ About the Direct Development of Platinum Paper for Brown Tones ”, describing her process to increase printing speed, improve clarity of highlights tones, and produce sepia tones.

* 21 May – International Direct Dialling to countries in the Gulf, the SAARC region, Saudi Arabia, Africa, Australia and New Zealand will cost Rs.

Direct weekend trains were discontinued on 20 May 2007.

Established in November 2005 as a result of a merger of the former Littlewoods and Shop Direct companies, the retailer was known as the Littlewoods Shop Direct Group until a corporate rebranding in May 2008.

In May 2008 Littlewoods Shop Direct Group announced it would change its corporate brand name to Shop Direct Group, to reflect the multi branded nature of the business.

Quinn Direct Insurance sponsored the British Masters tournament there in May 2006.

On 1st May 2012, CSR acquired Direct Digital Feedback Amplifier ( DDFA ) technology, a proprietary, highly scalable digital Class-D audio amplifier technology.

A book of collected essays, Possibilities: Essays on Hierarchy, Rebellion, and Desire was published by AK Press in November 2007 and Direct Action: An Ethnography appeared from the same press in August 2009, as well as a collection of essays co-edited with Stevphen Shukaitis called Constituent Imagination: Militant Investigations // Collective Theorization ( AK Press, May 2007 ).

This station can also be seen on EastLink TV channel 6, Bell Aliant TV channel 4, Bell TV channel 204 ( channel 198 for the Saint John feed ) and Shaw Direct channel 329 ( the New Brunswick feed was previously available through Star Choice / Shaw Direct on channel 330, but was dropped in May 2008 for capacity reasons ).

David Bender, who hosted another Air America program, Politically Direct, first appeared on the show when Air America 2. 0 was launched in May 2007.

* Alfonso F. Agnew, Alexandru Bobe, Wladimir G. Boskoff, and Bogdan D. Suceavă Gheorghe Ţiţeica and the origins of affine differential geometry, Historia Mathematica, Elsevier ( Science Direct ), Volume 36, Issue 2, May 2009, Pages 161-170.

In May 2005 under a reorganization, he was named Direct Reporting Program Manager ( DRPM ) for NMCI, and under another reorganization in February he became the Program Executive Officer – Enterprise Information Systems.

Closures were as follows :- Direct service to Franeker in October 1933 ; Direct service to Harlingen in May 1935 and freight in January 1938 ; All other passenger services ceased in July 1936, but were reopened as far as Tzummarum and Dokkum-Aalsum in May 1940.