The new Iraq is wide open to all its citizens and their opinions and attitudes.

My country lost millions of its citizens in the war.

That is how most of my other guests have felt. Your other guests?

No one wants the EU to fail because of its citizens disaffection.

It also calls for a society that is open to the many and varied contributions of all its citizens.

But remember that this nation is too precious to be the subject of our experiments and games!

Lebanon shares its feelings and is as concerned for these refugees as it is for its own citizens.

So he can't prevent it, his own citizens to post critical videos against his corruption.

In Syria, Putin is stuck standing behind Assad as he slaughters his citizens.

An economy that, year after year, leaves most of its citizens worse off is not a success.

A country emerging from conflict needs the involvement of its citizen and every sector of its society.

We feel the agony of knowing that our country lost so many of its Jewish citizens to the Holocaust.

(b) The party instituting the procedures shall adopt one member, who may be its national.

The contributing country has the right to watch over the safety of its compatriots at all times.

Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras must convince his countrymen that he is serious about implementing them.

We have to live there, building a humane and civilized society of equal and happy citizens and peoples.

Deng Xiaoping warned his compatriots to eschew external adventures that might jeopardize internal development.

This is why we built the security fence, and we shall continue to build it until it is completed, as would any other country defending its citizens.

This aggression follows a series of threats by Israeli political and military leaders against Lebanon and the security of its inhabitants.

In 1941, Henry Luce called on his countrymen just then realizing their strength to create the first great American century.

But no regime has ever used its citizens so deliberately as tools to arouse world sympathy, as hostages to modern sensitivities.

First, in international conflicts, the defending army must always protect the lives of its citizens, not just property interests.

Having promised that rapid consolidation would be good for growth, and having delivered recession, the European Union has disappointed its citizens.

Instead, the Saharan people had seen their country invaded by Morocco, their civilians brutally killed and their families separated for 30 years.

By accommodating its structures and functioning to the needs of all, a society mobilizes the potential of all its citizens and, consequently, strengthens its developmental potential.

The same is true for the democratization of the EU and thus for its greater proximity to, and acceptance by, ordinary citizens.

In a way, Putin succeeded twice he looked transparent to the West and menacing to most of his own citizens.

The SaudiCables reveal that the absolute monarchy, which micro manages its citizens daily lives, has stretched its arms way beyond its borders.

And we need to do so quickly if the EU is to deliver on its citizens expectations.

A few representatives acknowledged the preparations of the host country, which reported on its activities in disseminating information and mobilizing the country.

With regard to the references made in the decision to the marshlands area, we affirm that the Government of Iraq is fully intent on ensuring all the requirements for the security and protection of all of its citizens, in accordance with its domestic laws and international commitments, and on doing so in such a way as to secure the civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights of all citizens in all parts of Iraq.

The Soviet and other top heavy regimes increasingly found themselves losing the battle of ideas and, as a result, the support of their own citizens.

The Arab League slapped Syria on the wrist today for killing more than 3,000 of its citizens by suspending its membership from the pan Arab group, starting on Wednesday.

Decades of media control over Syria have helped the regime silence its people and maintain international legitimacy.

Mr. HORIN (Ukraine) said that each country was responsible, in the light of its particular circumstances, for its own economic development policies and for the welfare of its citizens.

(c) The other party to the dispute shall, within 10 days of receipt of the notification, appoint one member, who may be its national.

In June, Obama announced that Assad s regime had used chemical weapons against its own population and had thus crossed his administration s red line.

Of course, the first duty of every Member of the United Nations is to its own citizens, to their security, their welfare and their interests.

There is the leader of Hezbollah, under attack for his support of the Syrian regime's brutal war against his own citizens, trying to redeem himself as a defender of Islam.

Iraq used them against Iran in the 1980 s, Egypt in Yemen in the 1960 s, and Iraq against its own Kurds.

And the wrangling in the run up to and in Brussels itself surely did not contribute to the EU s popularity among its citizens.

In this day and age we can no longer afford to stand back if a country fails to protect its citizens against grave human rights abuses.

Putin, after more than a decade in power, has lost the support of his own, usually quiescent citizens, who have had rather limited experience with democracy.

So the Kremlin blinds its citizens with rosy scenarios, while the Internet over dramatizes reality.

No country qualifies as a full liberal democracy that is, as a political system that combines free and fair elections with constitutional protections of individual rights for all its citizens.