Some historical processes, however quickly launched, will eventually falter.

If COP 21 fails, it is hard to see how the U.N. process can limp on.

So I cannot sit back in silence as Europe stumbles blindly into a new appeasement.

LOS ANGELES As the United States stumbles through its economic challenges at home, the pressure of world events will not subside.

Yet recent developments suggest that, if this policy is pushed to its limits, it stumbles on its own premises.

The elaboration of African national reports is hampered by the lack of standardized systems for collecting data, and by insufficient coordination among the institutions storing the information.

We take this occasion to warmly thank the Chairman of the Working Group, Ambassador Christian Wenaweser of Liechtenstein, for his excellent conduct of the sometimes difficult negotiations.

I want to suggest to you that synthetic happiness is every bit as real and enduring as the kind of happiness you stumble upon when you get exactly what you were aiming for.

Greece s new Socialist government is hampered by campaign promises that suggested the money was there to solve the problems, when in fact things turned out to be far worse than anyone imagined.

The world cannot wait until 2020 to find the necessary resolve while international negotiations drag on and the momentum that has been generated in the private sector is in danger of dissipating, global warming is progressing.

The challenge facing the international community is how to make sure that that political will remains strong and that efforts do not waver in pursuing the course of using those instruments, together with the existing body of standards and norms in crime prevention and criminal justice, as the essential building blocks of the rule of law.

The State is still floundering and unable to effectively address the basic needs of the populace military reform has still to be accomplished a common vision has yet to be built among national stakeholders on how to foster peace, justice and reconciliation and the old sources of conflict persist.

Although blogs no doubt bring out a more endearing perspective on local events where mainstream media falters, and allow both professional journalists and ordinary folks to have their message publicized by their comrades in bloggery, lest we forget there are individuals and governments that don t want this to happen.