We must add commitment and responsibility to a message of hope.

It brings life and hope to an old shut window.

The appointment of a new Personal Envoy for Western Sahara was a hopeful step towards resuscitating the stalled negotiating process.

The Linas Marcoussis and Accra III Agreements showed signs of promise, namely, that a peaceful settlement could be reached in the situation in Côte d'Ivoire.

Counting on today s resource intensive, profit driven world economy to deliver quickly the global public goods of environmental security and development requires profound optimism, especially given the dire political and economic circumstances of key powers, notably Europe and the United States.

Medvedev s announcement one day after Putin s election on March 5 that the Khodorkovsky case will be reviewed is a hopeful start.

However, even those hopeful signs may not amount to much unless the international community becomes fully engaged in supporting the peace process.

The undertakings and the call for effective concrete measures that we have heard in the statements over the last few days by the leaders of the world's major economies inspire real hope.

Protected areas provide hope that the creatures of Ed Wilson's dream of an encyclopedia of life, or the census of marine life, will live not just as a list, a photograph, or a paragraph.

That was a matter of concern to the Group.

Those developments are deeply disturbing.

To date, the results had been encouraging.

These situations continue to be of particular concern.

Consensus on definition of issues of concern

It is a hopeful sign that many world leaders have already acknowledged that their support for the tsunami victims is long term and will in no way detract from commitments made to other development and humanitarian crises.

But the size of Italy s debt and of Belgium s is worrisome.

There were also those who offered words of comfort

The disarmament of civilians is another matter of concern.

She addressed some general areas of concern in her study.

While the past decade has witnessed much progress and reason for hope, there are still many important problems to tackle malnutrition, sanitation, education, civil conflicts, climate change, and natural disasters, to name some of the most prominent.

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Meanwhile, the international economic environment showed some auspicious signs.

As we gather here, in part to celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of an international Organization established to bring hope to the peoples of the world, we cannot avoid asking some hard questions.

This, it added, should provide comfort.

In every way, it has taken on particularly alarming dimensions.

The process of reform in distribution services often raises socio political concerns which need to be addressed.

The old stars, they come to life.

the recent removal of Israeli settlements from the Gaza Strip and parts of the northern West Bank, including the withdrawal of Israeli forces from the Gaza Strip and the opening of the Rafah border crossing by the President of the Palestinian Authority are helpful signs for peace.

One area of particular concern was the payment of salaries to the military.

Instead, the Greek Cypriot leader chose to repeat his well known arguments vis à vis the Cyprus problem, the Annan plan and the future of the United Nations settlement process, which are far from being convincing or fostering hope for the settlement of the Cyprus problem in the near future.

China s foreign policy is another cause for concern especially for the US.

The authors of the report presented us with disturbing and often shocking reading, and called for action.

The abusive use of anti dumping measures was a matter of concern to his delegation.

The answer to the first question is reassuring the answer to the second is not.

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The hot diffuse gas in the Local Bubble emits X rays.

Generally speaking, the human rights situation of indigenous peoples is far from satisfactory.

The international community should be aware that the means to deal with those issues were unsatisfactory.

The discussion concerning measures to encourage the payment of arrears also gave rise to grave concern.

Its commitment to addressing the challenges facing the goals set at the Millennium Summit is encouraging.

America s Hope Against Hope

In the fourth preambular paragraph, the words section II on development should read the development section . The draft resolution referred to meetings to be held in November and December 2005 in Montreal, Canada she expressed the hope that the General Assembly would send a good signal to those meetings by adopting the draft by consensus.

The situation of indigenous persons who defend their communities' human rights is especially worrisome.

Compared to the situation of four months ago, recent developments in the Israeli Palestinian situation are cause for concern.

Well, after Lesotho, I traveled across Africa before returning to England so gray and depressing, in comparison.