All of the speakers expressed their gratitude to Thailand for the extraordinary hospitality and tremendous efforts in the organization of a very successful Eleventh Congress.

In 1935, there were 150,000 cases a year of malaria in the United States, but DDT and a massive public health effort managed to squelch it.

Malaysia believes that the award is testimony to and recognition of the great efforts carried out by both the Agency and its Director General in ensuring the safe and peaceful development and use of nuclear technologies.

Separating competition law enforcement from regulation means sacrificing certain synergies and having to adopt measures ensuring firms that are not subjected to inconsistent demands, but it also ensures that both policies are administered by agencies thoroughly understanding them and having cultures suited to their implementation.

Improvement in the working methods of the Security Council and necessary changes in its structure and composition remain central components of the strenuous efforts being made to reform the United Nations as a whole.

When I grew up and realized that science fiction was not a good source for superpowers, I decided instead to embark on a journey of real science, to find a more useful truth.

Despite the tremendous effort behind the Disarmament Commission, we were unable to agree on an agenda that would have enabled us to bring that body of utmost importance out of stalemate.

The decisive questions now are whether she musters the courage to concentrate all the necessary responsibilities for this mega project in the energy ministry, and whom she entrusts with overseeing this Herculean task.

We believe that big history will be a vital intellectual tool for them, as Daniel and his generation face the huge challenges and also the huge opportunities ahead of them at this threshold moment in the history of our beautiful planet.

In his titanic efforts to stem decline and reform America, Obama has shown vision and talent, but he also learned the hard way that, as Henry Kissinger put it in his memoirs, the pledges of new administrations are almost invariably like leaves on a turbulent sea.

Villagers huddling in fear at the sound of Government bombing raids or the appearance of murderous militias on the horizon find no solace in the unimplemented words of the Geneva Conventions, to say nothing of the international community's solemn promises of never again when reflecting on the horrors of Rwanda a decade ago.

Slow growth of greenhouse gas emissions in rapidly growing economies must be accompanied by credible promises to deliver massive amounts of assistance in the mighty tasks of industrialization, education, and urbanization that China, India, Mexico, Brazil, and many other developing countries face.

The mountains of evidence in its records make the horrendous crimes committed in the wars in ex Yugoslavia comparable in the extent of their documentation to those by the Nazis. Inevitable efforts by demagogues to revise the history of what took place in ex Yugoslavia in the 1990 s will be complicated by the availability of that evidence, including the facts compiled during the Milosevic trial.