Each time the Council meets to hear the briefings of the Chairs of these committees, we say that the scourge of terrorism is still with us.

(Pioneers for Communism, like Che we shall be!), we repeated day after day before starting class.

We echo the appeal of the Secretary General to make every effort to agree as soon as possible on a draft comprehensive convention on international terrorism.

Nevertheless, we echo the call by the Council of the European Union and the High Representative, Javier Solana, to all communities in Kosovo and to authorities in Belgrade and Pristina to engage in substantial dialogue.

We often repeat the first words of the preamble of the Charter of the United Nations We the peoples of the United Nations, determined to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime, has brought untold sorrow to mankind .

For a long time, it was much easier to repeat the soothing mantra that the world community had collectively learned how to avoid a 1929 style collapse, and that the world s central banks clearly showed this in 1987 or 2001.