Translation of "Tache des feuilles " (French → English) :

4. Urges swift implementation of the roadmap, in order to sustain the transition until the constitutional order and the rule of law has been re-established throughout the country through the organisation of democratic, free, fair and transparent elections in 2013; welcomes the commitment on the part of the Malian authorities to organise the elections on 28 July and 11 August 2013, as well as the declarations by leaders of the transitional government not to stand for election; acknowledges the challenges that the organisation of the elections pose, including tasks such as ensuring security in the northern areas, issuing biometric voter ...[+++]cards and registering refugees on the electoral rolls, and calls on the EU and its international partners to step up their support for the upcoming electoral process; welcomes, in this respect, the intention of sending an EU electoral observation mission, as requested by the Malian government;

M. whereas the EU welcomes the progress that the ‘Garowe principles’ constitute in implementing the Kampala Agreement and the Roadmap to end the transition; whereas many of the deadlines for the completion of the tasks in the Roadmap have been missed which may delay the full implementation of the Roadmap;

31. Calls on Israel to help facilitate as far as possible the enormous and highly difficult task facing the Palestinian Prime Minister in seeking to achieve the objectives set out in the roadmap, since, only if he enjoys broad popular support among the Palestinian people, prompted by a clear sense that the political prospects for a fair, honourable and lasting peace exist, will the new Prime Minister be able to achieve these objectives and avert the clear danger that failure of the roadmap would result in an unstoppable rise of fundamentalist extremists;

26. Calls on Israel to help facilitate as far as possible the enormous and highly difficult task facing the Palestinian Prime Minister in seeking to achieve the objectives set out in the Road Map, since, only if he enjoys broad popular support among the Palestinian people, prompted by a clear sense that the political prospects for a fair, honourable and lasting peace exist, will the new Prime Minister be able to achieve these objectives and avert the clear danger that failure of the Road Map would result in an unstoppable rise of fundamentalist extremists;

And so we say in our resolution: it is time for the Council and the Commission to come up with a roadmap: a roadmap setting out precisely what tangible aims have to be achieved over which period of time; stating that the Council imposes an obligation to make an effort to actually do that, that EU legislation will be implemented and that this is then very carefully maintained, and that there is a coherent, consistent division of tasks between the European Council and the relevant national ministers, because that is generally lacking.

Yet, though our athletes and many of our fighting personnel wore the maple leaf with pride, it was not until 1964 that a veteran of World War I, Prime Minister Lester Pearson, took up the difficult task of persuading Canadians to formalize their private love affair with the red maple leaf in a new national flag.