It was important to ensure that they would not be used to defeat the object and purpose of the treaty.

From this perspective, a declining US is doing everything that it can to thwart China s rise.

Some people cite the spat over arms sales to Taiwan and the Dalai Lama s visit to Washington as a fourth dampener on all the G 2 talk.

Lopez Obrador and his supporters can be expected to work relentlessly to thwart his plans. But they are unlikely to derail his government.

If those efforts were unsuccessful, the Security Council would be obliged to exercise its authority to thwart any threat to international peace and security.

Obasanjo is anxious to thwart the region s growing armed insurgency, which is driven by widespread poverty and oil industry related ecological damage.

Arguably, the military concurred with the protesters demand for Mubarak s removal as the best way to circumvent a move towards a dynastic republic under Mubarak s son, Gamal.

Lopez Obrador and his supporters can be expected to work relentlessly to thwart his plans. But they are unlikely to derail his government.

Bangladesh regretted the frustration of efforts to establish such a zone in the Middle East and called on Israel to accede to the NPT immediately and to submit its nuclear facilities to IAEA safeguards.

Greek Cypriots are using their European Union membership as a weapon to frustrate Turkey s EU ambitions and to block attempts to increase trade between the EU and the island s north.

In a similar vein, last fall s explosion of violence in the suburbs reflected the frustrations of disoriented young people facing the grim prospects that a modern economy offers to those who lack proper training and education.

Such leadership can stymie politically motivated challenges to the referendum s result and preempt a period of uncertainty that increases tensions on the ground.

I also look to the Unionist community to show determination in condemning and doing all it can to discourage the continuation of the appalling lawlessness, which has in recent times so badly affected both loyalist communities and their vulnerable nationalist neighbours.

The financial industry battled against this new legislation. It lobbied regulatory agencies and Congress to delay or weaken reforms after they were enacted urged Congress to block key nominees and withhold essential funding and launched aggressive lawsuits to stymie implementation of important rules.

At the time, many thought that such lofty appeals were a deliberate attempt to forestall real reform those who had done well under the old system knew that the crisis would pass, and with it, so too would the demand for reform.

We therefore believe that the MDGs should not be treated as the full embodiment of development, which incorporates much wider issues such as the systemic inequity of the international financial architecture and the use of tariffs to frustrate the will of developing countries to engage in international trade.

Finally, a minority of senior officers concluded that progress within a liberal democratic system was impossible, and that authoritarianism would result in a more egalitarian, independent and modern Turkey other officers felt they had to intervene, if only to forestall these radical elements.

New generations of South Koreans, who have no personal recollections of and perhaps only casual interest in the Korean War, apparently resent what they regard as America s undermining South Korea s sunshine policy toward North Korea.