It would be to the benefit not only of Turkey and Europe but to the entire world, including my country, if the December 12 European Union summit in Copenhagen can succeed in advancing two important goals -- a settlement in Cyprus and an agreement on a date to begin talks on Turkish membership in the EU. |
It's been on our agenda ever since the fall of Baghdad, |
It's going to be terminated, |
It's hard to conceive that it would take more forces to provide stability in post-Saddam Iraq than it would take to conduct a war itself and to secure the surrender of Saddam's security forces and his army. Hard to imagine, |
It's not an exaggeration to say that 1.2 billion people living in extreme poverty need a result from Hong Kong, |
Jobs are a priority for every country, ... Doing more to improve regulation and help entrepreneurs is the key to creating jobs - and more growth. |
one hopes each time you get a success like that, not only to have gotten rid of somebody dangerous, but to have imposed changes in their tactics and operations and procedures. |
Only thing that really works, and it requires not only a little bit of humility but sometimes patience. |
Our focus right now is in getting rid of this regime in Baghdad. |
Our goal in Iraq is a democratic Iraq that truly respects the wishes of the people of Iraq, ... We can set up some parameters for a process, but we cannot write a blueprint. |
Overall, India is doing impressively well, and it's a very encouraging story of how a very large country with an extraordinarily diverse population can make real inroads in poverty reduction and in development with a democratic system, and I think that's encouraging. |
Part of the challenge is that we were moving from an era when there were very substantial subsidies in energy prices. Some kind of adjustment is necessary. |
People are entitled to present their views any way they want to, entitled to present uninformed views as well as informed ones. |
Public action should seek to expand the set of opportunities of those who have the least voice and fewest resources and capabilities. |
selected because we concluded ... that these were people who might have important information or might themselves be senior people. |