Tragically, genocide is happening again, this time in Sudan.

They have been tragically deprived of the basic capacities for human development.

Tragically, the signals from former Taliban in their southern Afghan stronghold of Kandahar were misread.

Tragically, all this is not only about human victims, but also about the Palestinians political horizon.

We must ensure that this does not continue, as has happened so tragically in the past.

Over the past year, we have been tragically reminded of human vulnerability in the face of natural disasters.

Left to our own devices, we have proven ourselves tragically incapable of breaking the genetic code of our dispute.

And that's more or less the story of the coral reefs of the Caribbean, and increasingly, tragically, the coral reefs worldwide.

And the regimes were considered to be too brutal, as we see tragically in Libya, to go down without a fight.

Similarly, youth are becoming involved in conflict around the world with alarming frequency, either as victims or, just as tragically, as soldiers.

That is a particularly sensitive matter for the small island developing States most vulnerable to natural disasters, as has been tragically demonstrated.

Tragically, another, unprecedented natural disaster has struck brotherly countries of the Asia Pacific region and we express our solidarity to those countries.

Tragically, Paraguay is landlocked, which is a considerable obstacle to our aspiration to build an economy based on production and international trade.

As a nation tragically aware of the human costs of terrorism, Australia remains a strong ally in your Committee's efforts to combat this scourge.

Threats, sanctions, or aid cutoffs would only cause further damage to an economy already in free fall, tragically punishing Kenya s poor while fomenting further violence.

But we also need to say in this forum that the protectionism of rich countries is like a vice that, tragically, is strangling our peoples.

We also wish to pay tribute to the memory of the former Prime Minister of Lebanon, His Excellency Mr. Rafik Hariri, who was tragically assassinated yesterday.

Tragically, that peace did not save the lives of many others who continued to fight and die in the Pacific for another four or five months.

This tragically small sum amounts to just three cents for every 100 of US gross national product, which is less than two days of US military spending.

History is not particularly encouraging when it comes to adjusting to profound changes new actors and shifting balances of power as the twentieth century tragically and repeatedly demonstrated.

By playing this endless game, our ministers leave for tomorrow what they lack the courage to face today, knowing full well that this ruse will end tragically for Argentines.

It has become tragically obvious that colonization and the peace process are incompatible there can be no peace with the continued colonization of the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem.

Tragically, three civilians were killed two Palestinians and one Chinese citizen all of whom were working in the Gush Katif settlement block in southern Gaza five Palestinians labourers were also wounded.

Tragically, it has become clear that the most affected group has been young children, of whom at least 50,000 were swept away but there are also tens of thousands left orphaned.

The obvious solution to the euro crisis would be a federal solution. But federation has been made less, not more, likely by a crisis that tragically set one proud nation against another.

Now political Islam can no longer be contained, because democracy cannot be built by driving underground parties that have a strong social base, as was tragically demonstrated in Algeria 15 years ago.

I refuse to accept the view that Ukraine is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of communism s legacy that we can never see the bright daybreak of peace and true European unity.

A recent World Bank study estimated that the damage from the triple disaster (earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear crisis) in March might ultimately cost Japan 235 billion (excluding the value of lives tragically lost).

The President I begin this morning by expressing our solidarity with the people of Pakistan and of its neighbours India and Afghanistan who have been tragically affected by a devastating earthquake this weekend.

And tragically, in 1999, when she was in Colombia working with the U'wa people, focused on preserving their culture and language, she and two colleagues were abducted and tortured and killed by the FARC.

After more than a century of oil production in Venezuela, which possesses the world s fifth largest reserves (and the largest gas reserves in Latin America), the state is rich, but the people remain tragically poor.

Tragically, however, Morocco had been able to persist in its illegal and brutal occupation of Western Sahara and its flagrant violations of United Nations resolutions and international law and the United Nations had done next to nothing.

Mr. Assaf (Lebanon) (spoke in Arabic) In Lebanon today, we seem to be in a constant state of sorrow we have lost the former Prime Minister of our country, Mr. Rafik Hariri, who was tragically assassinated yesterday.

The day ended tragically for those who committed the typical mistakes that people make in a fire in a panic, they jumped from great heights, and they ran without thinking in every direction, except farther from the flames.

Tragically, the current conflict is part of the inevitably repetitive cycle of violence that results from the absence of a comprehensive settlement in the Middle East, exacerbated by the almost unprecedented six year absence of any real effort to achieve such a goal.

Extending our deepest sympathies and condolences to the victims of the recent tsunami disaster and their families and to the people and Governments of those countries who tragically suffered huge loss of life, serious injuries and extensive material damages from the tsunami disaster,

Yet tragically, in a misguided attempt to thwart the spread of HIV and AIDS, lawmakers in many parts of the world have passed criminal statues that promote ignorance about the disease, punish its victims, and enhance the chances that the virus will infect new victims.

And yet tragically, when you now go to those northern communities, you find to your astonishment that whereas the sea ice used to come in in September and stay till July, in a place like Kanak in northern Greenland, it literally comes in now in November and stays until March.

From this rostrum, I would like to express my sincerest sympathy for the afflicted populations of the southern part of the United States of America that have been so tragically affected by the passage of Hurricane Katrina in August, one of the most devastating hurricanes ever to strike our continent.

And I happen to know that company pretty well because John Heinz, who was our U.S. senator who was tragically killed in a plane accident he had heard about my desire to build a new building, because I had a cardboard box and I put it in a garbage bag and I walking all over Pittsburgh trying to raise money for this site.