Positive stories from Niger are a few and far between these days.

Fukushima has presented the world with a far reaching, fundamental choice.

France has a president who understands the need for bold, far reaching actions as well.

The outcome, preceded by a spike in extremist violence, is likely to reverberate far and wide.

Surprisingly (to me, at least), markets have reacted stoically.

Realizing this, we in Africa have taken bold and far reaching initiatives to promote peace and security on the continent.

Criminal laws targeting all HIV carriers, however, are counter productive and inherently unjust.

If not transmitted by these means to all levels of society, the instruments are liable to remain theoretical and remote, having no bearing on people's daily life.

In this confrontation, international credibility and legitimacy will be the deciding factors, and ensuring them will require far sighted and cool, calculated American leadership.

To ensure that their sovereign bond issues do not turn into a financial disaster, these countries should put in place a sound, forward looking, and comprehensive debt management structure.

Indeed, most of the health gains over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries were brought about by far reaching economic, political, and social reforms.

This is a formidable some would say unrealistically ambitious agenda. But it is the agenda Europe needs to complete to make its monetary union work.

And she said, Well, I saw you speak, and I'm going to call you a researcher, I think, but I'm afraid if I call you a researcher, no one will come, because they'll think you're boring and irrelevant.

With many citizens now struggling, political leaders face a daunting task adopt credible medium and long term reforms without derailing the economy in the short term.

The ramifications of such sexual misconduct, both for the victims and the international community at large, will be extensive and long term, and will require disproportionate efforts to counteract.

But I want to stress one point to which he referred in his briefing that regardless of the circumstances, humanitarian assistance must remain neutral and impartial and should not be used as a political tool.

Iceland looks forward to a constructive, open and forward looking discussion and will do its utmost to contribute to the making of far reaching and effective changes on the basis of the excellent preparatory work carried out under the leadership of the Secretary General.

While the work of the United Nations is obviously enormous and far reaching, my delegation wishes to highlight specifically our concern over the incidence and severity of natural disasters and the extent to which they come to affect our lives.

8. Emphasize, however, that many least developed countries, with the support of their development partners, have, despite many difficulties, produced notable achievements through wide ranging and far reaching reforms

The radio continues to provide neutral and impartial information, regular news bulletins, information from humanitarian agencies and messages of peace and dialogue, including from Ivorian civil society and religious leaders.

President Vike Freiberga As we gather to mark the sixtieth anniversary of the United Nations, we recognize that it needs fundamental and far reaching reforms to remain viable as an organization and to be capable of meeting the modern day challenges of the twenty first century.

k) Support the initiative of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and of other international bodies combating such pandemics, and encourage the Global Fund to develop effective far reaching and comprehensive processes for the disbursement of funds

Furthermore, since 2003 state schools offer religious instruction (using authorized textbooks that are never Wahhabi in spirit), with the informal approval of secular and Sufi teachers alike.

The US has now reelected a president who understands this. France has a president who understands the need for bold, far reaching actions as well.

With many citizens now struggling, political leaders face a daunting task adopt credible medium and long term reforms without derailing the economy in the short term.