It is easy sometimes to overlook our youth, but we do so at our great peril.

We must not forget to talk about the indirect impact of conflict and war on children.

We would be remiss, however, in not mentioning the significant results that 2005 did register.

We, on the other hand, must never lose sight of our accountability to citizens all around the world.

PRINCETON Over the last year, it has been easy to lose sight of the Greek debt crisis.

At the same time, the widening digital divide between developed and developing countries must not be overlooked.

Not to mention it comes at the same time the Syria seems to regain power in the region.

We should not overlook the devastating costs for countries in conflict or the impact on their neighbours.

However, since the Working Group has given preliminary consideration to them, we will refrain from commenting on them until such time as further information is available.

At this crucial juncture in the peace process in Côte d'Ivoire, we cannot ignore the significant gains achieved so far.

But we must not lose track of this issue as we explore new standards, new guidelines and new modalities for development programmes in the future.

That does not mean, however, that we can fail to respect human rights in waging our fight against terrorism.

It helps you pace yourself, it gives you a timer so we end on time and the whole bit.

Make no mistake an orderly euro exit by Greece implies significant economic pain.

Finally, if we focus on the too big to fail subsidy at any particular time, we miss too much.

Of course, the insecurity on our borders should not cause us to lose sight of other crises in Africa and throughout the world.

There was, however, another, category of people the careful and untainted, who absented themselves from the world of politics.

While much of the power struggle will take place within the nationalist camp, one must not overlook the Islamist camp led by Hamas and Islamic Jihad.

Here, we cannot fail to mention Japan's sustained commitment to promoting development in Africa for example, through the Tokyo International Conference on African Development process.

We're so marinated in the culture of speed that we almost fail to notice the toll it takes on every aspect of our lives on our health, our diet, our work, our relationships, the environment and our community.

However, we cannot fail to recognize, in the context of the constructive realism to which I have referred, that despite the value of the food for thought document, it did not in the end achieve consensus.

With so much political friction in Iran and Iraq, it is easy to overlook the growing unrest in Nigeria, the world s eighth largest oil exporter.

But we should not lose sight of the impacts and consequences of the conflict, which have taken a heavy toll, in particular on the border populations.

However much we may worry about the distributional consequences of outsourcing, we should never overlook the fact that it increases the total size of the economic pie.

Ghana strongly supports the call for youth led development, but would like to advise that we not lose sight of the need to tap the rich experiences gained by older generations over the years.

But there's a very serious point, and I think that in the headlong dash of daily life, we often lose sight of the damage that this roadrunner form of living does to us.

As chaos and confusion set in, we should not lose sight of President Pervez Musharraf s partial responsibility for this turn of events.

And when we change our behavior in our daily lives, we sometimes leave out the citizenship part and the democracy part. In order to be optimistic about this, we have to become incredibly active as citizens in our democracy.

However, we must not forget that, like other countries emerging from decades of internal strife, it needs the ongoing support of the international community in all areas.

But, while criticism of China s human rights record clearly has merit, it is important not to lose sight of the extent of genuine political change in China.

As regards the Council's competence in the area of small arms, we cannot fail to mention the risk represented by the diversion of such arms particularly man portable air defence systems to terrorist groups.

In the important work of adapting educational institutions for the future, we must not lose sight of their core mission as articulated in the past.

With negotiations over Iran s nuclear program looming once again, understanding Iran s new president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is critically important.

If development is, according to the well known formula, the new name of peace, we cannot fail, nevertheless, to note that numerous international conflicts and intra State conflicts and hotbeds of tension continue to dot the face of the world.

While acknowledging the important war against terrorist acts in all their forms and manifestations, we should not lose sight of the importance of upholding the rule of law in conformity with international law.

But, you know, it's very easy to overlook the smaller characters oops for example, like Lem Sen, who introduced chop suey, Chef Peng, who introduced General Tso Chicken, and all the Japanese bakers who introduced fortune cookies.

So is employing young men, educating young women, and addressing values of liberty and justice, which means ameliorating the sense of indignity in the region that stems from issues like the Israel Palestine conflict.

In most of the world, these few prevention failures notwithstanding, we are actually doing quite well these days in commercial sex condom use rates are between 80 and 100 percent in commercial sex in most countries.

But there has clearly been a great deal of reliance on this strategy, with companies shedding employees not only because they must, but often because they have not met Wall Street analysts financial expectations.

When we look at the different communities we should be serving in this human rights approach, we should also remember to focus too on the special needs of vulnerable groups, such as women, children, indigenous peoples, migrant workers, persons with HIV AIDS and so on.

In conclusion, although South Africa does not have a strong view against these formal plenary meetings, we should not lose sight of the fact that their primary aim is to encourage the CD to adopt a programme of work which will anchor the obligation of the CD to negotiate disarmament measures.

But, while strengthening such programs should be a high priority, we should not lose sight of how well middle income families have actually done over the past few decades. Unfortunately, the political debate is distorted by misleading statistics that grossly understate these gains.

To call these people s ostentatious displays of extravagance wasteful is to miss the point a world of glittering dreams that must remain entirely beyond our grasp is precisely what many people want to see.