Two more for tired cattle.

These are not new points, and it is tiresome to have to repeat them year after year.

But since Saddam was toppled in 2003, there have been efforts to restore the suffering marsh ecosystems.

Furthermore, waves of Syrian refugees are threatening the sustainability of the Jordanian monarchy, already roiled by profound internal cleavages.

Nor can a weak, embattled, and disoriented Musharraf be expected to fight Islamic militancy effectively or bring political stability to Pakistan.

One could argue that this system facilitates more efficient governance, and thus could potentially save Italy from its debilitating gridlock.

On the contrary, 2011 may well prove to be a better year for a battered economy and a political system under stress.

Even in the best case scenario, in which the euro remains intact, Europe will be bogged down with the demanding task of rebuilding its frayed union.

The often debilitating impact of the traditional foreign aid model on developing countries nascent private sectors has led to a fundamental reconsideration.

Between our dreams of instigating change in a peaceful manner in the exhausted countryside subjected to months of bombardment from the heart of the city, the liberation of huge swaths of the city took place.

Multilateral lenders like the International Monetary Fund were fixated on fiscal reforms such as reducing costly subsidies rather than shoring up a beleaguered economy.

Uruguay is thus joining in the efforts of the United Nations in Haiti, not to impose solutions to the political problems that beset that tormented country, but, rather, to help its people and their authorities find their own solutions.

I return to India to witness religious tolerance, and stay away from sectarianism to rest my body which is exhausted from the sad incidents which my nation is suffering from and where I see in loneliness a better friend. I see it more beautiful and harsher than home at the same time.

So all hope is not lost in Pakistan. On the contrary, 2011 may well prove to be a better year for a battered economy and a political system under stress.

The Minister for Foreign Affairs reaffirmed and made a commitment that in no case would Argentina play politics with fishing or engage in predatory fishing in the South Atlantic.

Even a strong and economically flourishing State could not deal alone with the consequences of a catastrophe like Chernobyl, so imagine the situation for the moribund post communist economy of Ukraine, where 20 per cent of our meagre national budget is now eaten up by Chernobyl.

You rest your head on the car window so that the air conditioner s cold breeze cools you from the anger of waiting and the sun's fury.

Furthermore, waves of Syrian refugees are threatening the sustainability of the Jordanian monarchy, already roiled by profound internal cleavages. Hezbollah has drawn Lebanon into the Syrian conflict, setting up a showdown between Shia and Sunni at home.

The cure, such as it was, finally came about, years behind schedule, not through fiscal bleeding, but by massive monetary stimulus. When the groggy patient eventually staggered to its feet, the champions of fiscal bleeding triumphantly proclaimed that austerity had worked.