The bilateral talks are now chiefly over inducements to the Pakistanis to reopen the supply route.
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Iran remains Hezbollah's most important patron, but Syria is a crucial supply route.
Officers believe they have closed down the supply route through Immingham, North East Lincolnshire, after a series of drug seizures.
In April, opposition forces managed to take Bamiyan, in central Afghanistan, cutting off the Taliban's supply route to the north-west.
It can serve as the most cost-effective supply route for withdrawing our troops and equipment from Afghanistan or block their passage.
Pakistan shut down a key Nato supply route to Afghanistan and demanded an end to the drone attacks following that incident.
The supply route was closed in November after the US air strike.
The majority came from the poorest parts of Europe - Moldova, Romania and Ukraine - but the main supply route is through Serbia.
The country's main supply route, a railway connecting Brazzaville and Pointe Noire, the oil-producing town, has been disrupted for the past seven months.
The border area around the town, a rebel stronghold, is a strategic land link for Hezbollah in Lebanon with its ally Iran, and a supply route between Hezbollah and the Syrian regime.
It is one of the highest human settlements in Tirah, overlooking both a Pakistani military supply route to the border with Afghanistan in the north, and the Taliban-infested Orakzai region in the south.
"This significant move not only allows for free movement of the population, but also opens up this key supply route and allows for the provision of humanitarian aid, " it said in a statement.
The tempo of drone attacks against al-Qaeda figures had slackened in the weeks before the NATO summit, partly because of the Obama administration's desire to get a deal on the southern supply route.
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Twice he made the dangerous journey down the Ho Chi Minh Trail, which was the main military supply route from the North through the Laotian panhandle to the South during the American phase of Vietnam's wars of independence.
Tensions are also high over continuing US drone strikes in Pakistan and Islamabad's refusal to re-open a Nato supply route to Afghanistan which it closed down in November after 24 of its soldiers were killed on the border in a Nato air strike.
Some Arsaal residents and Sunni politicians believe Mr. Hmayyed was killed in order to draw the army into a confrontation with Arsaal residents and then besiege the town, cutting off a vital supply route for Syrian rebels while securing Hezbollah control of the area.
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Pakistan has shut its border, which will temporarily hurt NATO's supply chain to Afghanistan, but the country continues to rely on billions of dollars in military and civilian aid from the U.S. Washington, likewise, needs Pakistan to keep up pressure on Taliban militants in the tribal region, and as a supply route.
Lining the southern road to Fallujah, an important supply-route for the insurgents, the towns are patrolled but not controlled by American marines.
His successor at the helm of the world's first tin canning business, John Gamble, moved the factory to Cork in Ireland in 1830, where there was a larger supply of cattle and the shipping route to the US offered an endless supply of custom.
U.S. and British airstrikes have cut off the Taliban air supply routes to the north, leaving the Taliban only a long circular route through western Afghanistan to supply the north, Abdullah said.
First, companies have to re-route carefully orchestrated supply lines, which adds days and extra logistics costs.
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The company said some residents in and around Liverpool city could notice temporary low water pressure or a loss of supply as engineers re-route water supplies to all customers.
So the more you can do to be prepared now -- making a plan, make a supply kit, know your evacuation route, follow instructions of your local officials -- the quicker we can focus our resources after the storm on those who need help the most.
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Without this land route, the government can supply its troops in the Tamil-dominated peninsula only by sea or by air.
If the rebels took them, it would enable their forces to cut off the single route in Idlib that the government uses to supply troops operating in Aleppo.
The Taliban and other Islamic militant groups have infiltrated many towns and villages along the route, and there are reports of attacks of supply trucks, where windows are smashed and the drivers intimidated.
Parts of the long-derelict route were first opened by the Allies during the second world war to supply Chiang Kai-shek's Chinese army in its war with the Japanese.
Although it could never become the most common route by which to enter teaching, the scheme could help to boost the supply of good head teachers (Teach First applicants are screened for leadership potential).
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