Sami invited Layla again to convert to Islam.

In Italy, the Lombards were intensively Christianised, and the pressure to convert to Catholicism was great.

We endorse the Secretary General's appeal to embrace the principle of the responsibility to protect as a norm for our collective action in cases of genocide, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity.

President Barack Obama s pragmatism and refusal to embrace the Bush administration s war on terror will also be a key determinant of the outcome.