After hesitating, I nodded yes.

Central government has been reluctant to decentralize revenue generating sectors such as forests and mining, and the involvement of NGOs and civil society remains weak.

Conversely, Parties have sometimes hesitated to accept efforts from other organizations to support the process.

Governments reluctant to sign the Kyoto Protocol today have a responsibility for the disaster and suffering caused by Hurricane Katrina.

When I was in Japan I went to an art school in Japan I had a nice sort of situation, because somehow I was connected to Paul Rand.

Throughout the Cold War, Japan's national security policy appeared to waver between UN first ism and an Alliance first principle.

The national debt is a burden on future generations. This fallacy is repeated so often that it has entered the collective unconscious.

There were allegations that 12,000 Arab houses would be demolished in the near future in East Jerusalem and other parts of Israel.

I moaned about it, I hesitated, I went on and on and on to my long suffering wife, and eventually I decided to resign from the British Foreign Service.

The government pitted the conflict as a Shia population trying to wrestle power from a Sunni leadership, a storyline often echoed in international media.

Its decision reverberates across the Continent not just for the Roma, but for all who have a stake in promoting the values of tolerance and equality in a democratic Europe.

Lebanese authorities have been reluctant to investigate the cases of the disappeared, instead passing a law five years after the end of the war that shortened the time required for an absent individual to be declared dead.

And it got big enough to the point where there was a float last year at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade, and Rick Astley pops out, and rickrolls millions of people on television.

That stark message was echoed by the Millennium Project, which declared that integrating the principles and practices of environmental sustainability into country policies and planning programmes is therefore key to successful poverty reduction strategies.

Last March, as rumors circulated that he was losing the vote, Maliki asserted that state security would be threatened if he lost, noting his responsibility to maintain order.

My delegation is therefore alarmed at news of increasing settlement activities in the West Bank and, even worse, Israel's revision of the route of the wall and the acceleration of its construction around Jerusalem.

But, instead of choosing, major European countries, such as Germany, have dithered, first dangling NATO membership as a juicy carrot, and then withdrawing the offer, leaving the Americans to indulge in heroic rhetoric without the necessary follow through.

Other States may have forgotten that they have this opportunity to up date the Committee on their implementation of the measures and or clarify issues of concern, or may have hesitated to do so for fear that they might face cross examination.

But the crushing defeat of Senator Richard Lugar in the recent Indiana Republican primary, in a Tea Party supported campaign of shocking mindlessness, has reverberated in capitals around the world, including my own.

Throughout the Cold War, Japan's national security policy appeared to waver between UN first ism and an Alliance first principle. In essence, however, fostering alliance with the United States dominated Japan's course.

Ms. Louis (Haiti) (spoke in French) When I learned that I had been appointed by the Secretary of State for Youth to represent Haitian youth at the General Assembly, I hesitated, because on the one hand I know how complex and multifaceted the needs of youth are, and, on the other, I was unsure about the follow up to such an event.