Among the drivers of growth, domestic capital formation retained much of its momentum from preceding years.

It is of essential importance that the process of implementation does not lose momentum, as it will have a strong impact on the aforesaid confidence building efforts as well.

India is more self contained than China, and it should have less difficulty in maintaining its upside momentum.

The moral and strategic vision of the 1990 s has exhausted itself and come to a grinding halt after the shock of the Russo Georgian war and the recent Ukrainian election.

Turkey s initiatives have lost steam, and the United States and its European allies are merely going through the diplomatic motions in practice, their efforts imply little serious impact on the regime.

Only the rule of law, backed by well trained Iraqi forces, supported by a thriving infrastructure and economy and energized by a free and fair elections process could defeat those who wished to destabilize the country.

Don t look to emerging markets, either. Desperate to sustain their political and economic momentum, most have taken a wide variety of steps to prevent their economies from feeling the full brunt of the commodity price hikes.

It is regrettable to see the fragmentation and loss of impetus that has beset the movement towards universal participation that was launched in 1993, and the collective lack of will on the part of the States concerned, despite the many efforts described above to revive the vision of the Vienna Programme of Action.

The connection between rape, male privilege, and female sexual vilification was one of the key insights of feminists in the 1970 s an insight that they thought had been successfully applied to cultural debate about rape, and to law.

While there is every reason to welcome new signatures and ratifications, which reflect important developments in a number of States and not always the smallest States   it has to be acknowledged that the momentum of the 1993 World Conference on Human Rights has been lost.

King Abdullah s reform efforts especially those aimed at curbing the power of the ultra conservative Wahhabi Salafi religious establishment have lost steam, and the deaths of two crown princes have complicated the inter generational transfer of power.