Why Free Trade Matters

In delivering a better life for people on the ground, one should be more concerned with substance than with form, Obama stated in an interview just before his inauguration.

The implementation of those commitments must now engage our urgent attention.

Our attention was focused on preventing recession from turning into depression.

We should not focus attention exclusively on economists, however.

They deserve our continuing interest, our help and our support.

We believe that God calls us to place people struggling with poverty at the centre of our concern.

The lack of support for so called forgotten emergencies is a subject that requires our careful attention.

What should be of greater concern is the potential plight of countries in the last group.

The goal now must be to unite the Dutch people.

In my delegation's view, the part of the report devoted to freedom from fear requires our utmost attention.

But that cannot distract our attention from the parties' responsibilities to each other.

Let us stay focused in the year ahead, and make those reforms a reality.

They argue that only poverty reduction matters.

There are billions of stories like Dulu Bibi s and billions of other stories that demand our attention.

Given their gravity and magnitude, the humanitarian crises of Africa merit more of our attention and our political and financial resources.

He also said, In our search to know God, I've come to believe that the life of Jesus Christ should be the focus of our efforts and inspiration.

It captured our attention because it was so bad in terms of lives and property damage.

Mr. Rupel raised some insightful points today, which also will remain the focus of our attention throughout 2005.

As Indigenous women in Canada, we are concerned with the collective and human rights of our Peoples.

Faced with a difficult situation, we should intensify our efforts rather than turn our attention elsewhere.

The outcome was the reaffirmation of our interest in negotiation of the  cut off in the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva.

So that's a very good reason beyond curiosity to justify what we're doing, and to justify having some interest in what is going on in our brains.

But, in the last ten years or so, we have become concerned about something else rapid world economic growth.

As we focus attention on addressing humanitarian crises, we should not forget to ask why there is conflict in the first place.

Most of the oppression is not made by our country, it s made by our silence, by our lack of interest, or sometimes because we are too oblivious to our surroundings.

The lesson is clear We should focus our attention on making production more efficient, reducing waste, and addressing the problem of unsustainable consumption.

The vicarious experiences generated by Greek tragedies, televised sitcoms, and newspaper stories have all played an important role in expanding the scope of moral concern.

The report makes it clear that there are many social, economic and political issues that should engage our attention as we move forward.

So the silence of scientists, of technologists, of public policy makers, of the change agent, drew our attention that this is not on, this is not on this is not the way society will work.

While we worry about the far off effects of climate change, we do nothing to deal with issues facing the planet today.

However, we wish to emphasize that there are many other facets of United Nations reform that are, by the same token, critical and that need our equal attention.

As the report notes, the frequency with which natural disasters are occurring and their increasingly devastating impact on nations is one area of concern that needs our serious attention.

One, that we can put our attention wherever we want it to be two, that we will always be heard and three, that we will never have to be alone.

Adoption of the draft resolution now will also allow us to redirect our full attention to the many other important and pressing issues on the United Nations reform agenda.

Institutional change must be the focus of our attention over the next few months, both through the creation of new bodies and the adaptation of existing ones.

Our first concern should therefore be to ensure compliance with and implementation of resolution 59 95, adopted by consensus last year, the ink on which is still fresh.

Our second concern was that for the country modified estimates, it was not possible to distinguish the slightly modified from the significantly modified estimates of indicators.

Indeed, our concern for the vulnerable population of Guatemala extends beyond our borders to include those Guatemalans that have migrated abroad some 11 per cent of our population.

We must increase our interest in and efforts for the development of quick impact projects that can provide economic occupations, in particular to ex combatants and, within that group, to the youth and the women.

How can I care about the fate of people like that? If this is what Americans are feeling, if that is who we are, we don t deserve our Constitution and Bill of Rights.

What happens? They give better service not worse, but better.

At present, our focus is to ensure in this respect that the cases of six more accused are ready to commence trial in 2006, subject to readiness of the defence and the availability of courtroom space.

Our third concern is that the tables do not distinguish between indicators based on surveys conducted by national statistical offices (perhaps with funding assistance) or those conducted by international agencies.

There are many topical aspects of the law of the sea and international fisheries that are worthy of our close attention, but their prominence is only obscured by our collective insistence on repeating the same things year after year.