And again, Praise the Lord, all ye Gentiles and laud him, all ye people.

We laud the efforts of the Spanish and Croatian Governments in facilitating his arrest and his transfer to the ICTY.

By Continental standards, the level of violence over religion was not high, but the casualties included King Charles I and Archbishop of Canterbury William Laud.

We laud all the efforts of the two Tribunals in referring middle and low level cases to competent national jurisdictions and undertaking measures to build the local capacity of national courts.

We equally laud and welcome the initiative of the G 8 to cancel 100 per cent of the debt of the highly indebted poor countries, 14 of which are in Africa.

The Sakharov Museum exhibition was subjected to a vituperative media campaign, and the matter was almost immediately taken up in the Duma, where nationalist deputies vied with each other to denounce the artists and laud the vandals.

To laud the efforts to achieve peace and national reconciliation in the Sudan with the participation of all Sudanese political forces, and to call on the Islamic States and the international community to support the reconstruction of the Sudan such as to achieve prosperity and preserve its unity.