But Americans invested generously in the survival of democratic ideas and leaders.

The leaders of the democratic revolutions in Eastern Europe quickly faded in the new environment.

Support democratic transition. Incumbent leaders must have the proper incentives to initiate gradual processes of reform.

It is not clear at this point how much determination Iraq s emerging democratic leaders will have.

And, as a rising power, China is not a force that leaders, even democratic ones, dismiss lightly.

That includes leaders of the Fanmi Lavalas who have accepted the democratic process and have rejected violence.

In fact, they are probably typical of leaders in countries with little or no history of democratic government.

At times like these, the two countries similarities and differences can point Iraq s leaders toward a stable democratic future.

The country s two major political parties, the governing Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) and the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) recently chose their leaders, yet ordinary Japanese responded with a collective shrug.

In any democratic system of checks and balances, leaders usually require coalitions in order to get what they want done.

Backroom decisions and top down guidance was replaced by a democratic free for all that saw many of Fatah s historic leaders fall to the wayside, making room for younger, locally popular leaders.

Now Yanukovich is trying to reverse the country s democratic gains, but he is finding it difficult, despite imprisoning many opposition leaders.

For instance, in the mid 1980 s, Chinese leaders seriously discussed and later drew up a blueprint for modest democratic reforms.

His strategy was designed to appeal to white Southerners who were more conservative than the leaders of the national Democratic Party.

I would like to commend the determination of the Timorese people and their leaders to consolidate a democratic and viable State.

Europe s leaders, who helped broker a peaceful and democratic end to the Orange Revolution, should once again help Ukraine avoid political deadlock.

Putin s Russia is not a place for democratic leaders to hold a summit, especially after the paltry results of the last one.

The reformist viewpoint was introduced into Marxist thought by Eduard Bernstein, one of the leaders of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD).

Yet, as long as such leaders respect the democratic constitution, they are not likely to get very far the next election will dislodge them.

Of course, it may take some time for the Tamils and their leaders to learn the mutual tolerance and self discipline of democratic government.

A presidential election at a moment of great uncertainty, and in the absence of experienced democratic parties or broadly accepted leaders, is filled with danger.

(g) The building of a modern, developed and democratic nation by the State leaders elected by the legislative bodies, the Government and other central organs.

Because Sunni Arabs, comprising less than 25 of the population, knew that they could not win a democratic election, many of their leaders urged a boycott.

It may be xenophobic, but its leaders never denigrate the Republic there may be fascists members within it, but the party plays by the democratic rules.

Encourages political leaders, civil society and the media to remain vigilant against the penetration of racist and xenophobic ideas in the political platforms of democratic parties

Insurgent movements that succeed do so because the government s will collapses. It is not clear at this point how much determination Iraq s emerging democratic leaders will have.

Chinese leaders recall that the US promised Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev that German reunification and democratic transition in Eastern Europe would not mean eastward expansion of NATO.

Serbia s democratic leaders of today must understand that the loss of Kosovo although not their doing is an irreversible reality with which they must come to terms.

The FMLN s most reform minded, democratic, modern, and brilliant leaders Facundo Guardado, Joaquin Villalobos, Salvador Samayoa, Ana Guadalupe Martinez, and Ferman Cienfuegos have all left the party.

The political leaders of the Nationalist (Christian Democratic) Party and the Labor Party have enacted a law whereby, since 1994, they alone share more than 200,000 state financing.

In the meantime, the Transitional Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo is still considering issuing international arrest warrants for the leaders of the Ituri armed groups.

Congress may also prove less willing to remove hurdles to Russia s admission to the World Trade Organization, given what is widely judged to be its leaders anti democratic behavior.

PORTO The military coup that has overthrown Egypt s first democratically elected president and led to the arrests of Muslim Brotherhood leaders across the country poses an enormous danger not only for Egypt s democratic transition, but for the democratic hopes of the entire Arab world as well.

Furthermore, participants agreed to step up pressure to disarm militias operating in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and to negotiate bilateral extradition treaties concerning the remnant militia leaders.

Despite the renewed commitment under NEPAD by African leaders to conflict prevention and democratic governance, the international community has as yet failed to provide sufficient resources to achieve these objectives.

If Arab leaders fail to overcome these deficiencies, the latest Arab force could become the Middle East s newest source of anti democratic, sectarian based instability, potentially intensifying the Sunni Shia conflict.

But there are more positive reasons for Obama effort at bipartisanship. In any democratic system of checks and balances, leaders usually require coalitions in order to get what they want done.

Europe s soft power has changed many things in many countries over the past two decades, spurring leaders and citizens to reform their economies and embrace or strengthen democratic values and institutions.

Indeed, whereas resistance to foreign intervention and assistance has been strong with respect to democratic reforms, new Arab leaders seem more receptive to a partnership with the West on economic objectives.

Now its leaders maintain that they would welcome democratic changes in the region as a guarantor of peace and common values, though they express skepticism about whether such developments are actually imminent.

1. Welcomes and supports the inter Korean summit and the joint declaration adopted on 15 June 2000 by the two leaders of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and the Republic of Korea

PRINCETON Russian President Vladimir Putin s anointment of Alexander Medvedev to succeed him in what is supposed to be a democratic presidential election next March shows that Russia s leaders have not changed a whit.

3. Recommends also that the Extraordinary Chambers should have personal jurisdiction over the senior leaders of Democratic Kampuchea and those who were most responsible for the crimes referred to in paragraph 2 above

According to Eurobarometer data collected over the last two decades, Italy s political system, its leaders, and its democratic institutions have the lowest level of citizen satisfaction among the first 15 European Union countries.

(d) The measures taken in 2005 by the authorities of the Democratic Republic of the Congo to arrest and detain leaders of militia groups suspected of committing killings and other serious crimes against civilians