The G 20 s Empty Promises

We can have another five years of hollow debates.

But doing so requires more than shallow promises.

At that summit, we committed ourselves to act, not simply to mouth empty words.

Second, the emptiness of G 8 leaders words puts the world at risk.

Does the pied piper of Venezuela offer a fairer and better way to grow?

Visceral sparring matches are continuing, with the Dalai Lama recently describing Tibetans lives under China as a hell on earth.

He has now added a new phrase to this rhetoric with the term quot ethnic cleansing quot .

Ptolemy ruled over Egypt, southern Syria (known as Coele Syria), and various territories on the southern coast of Asia Minor.

I was a doing a Ph.D. at the time, trying to go away from this patronizing bullshit that we arrive and tell you what to do.

We should leave the creationists to their hollow convictions and happily embrace the uncertainties inherent in a truly empirical approach to understanding the world.

In conclusion, to my Timorese friends I would appeal that we Timorese stop listening to the promises and empty dreams given by politicians and their international friends.

For too many years empty promises and hollow exhortations have filled the diplomatic and political airways while the pathways to a better world remain a difficult road to traverse.

With each approach, Palestinian leaders, believing Arab states hollow proclamations of solidarity with their cause, have failed to measure accurately their own powers vis à vis the Israelis.

Reconciliation should take account of the real issues and problems at district and provincial levels and should therefore be multi level, not entirely focused on empty political differences between faction leaders.

There is certainly good reason to be concerned about Maliki s temperament, his small group of advisers, his tendency to exercise personal control in the use of state power, and his reputation, partly merited, of making empty promises.

Attempts to revive the Oslo peace process the Road Map and the Annapolis process have similarly failed to achieve more than vacuous declarations and hollow photo opportunities.

Indeed, these governments promote constitutional reforms that seek to authorize perpetual re election and supposedly new forms of participation that, in fact, hollow out representative democracy from within.

The only hopeful note in that litany of empty pronouncements was the concrete action taken by President Bush in 1989, urging the United States Congress to pass legislation so that the people of Puerto Rico might exercise their right to self determination.

The Shia are the majority in Iraq, and the Sunnis need to become reconciled with that fact. There is certainly good reason to be concerned about Maliki s temperament, his small group of advisers, his tendency to exercise personal control in the use of state power, and his reputation, partly merited, of making empty promises.

I will not go into detail in refuting the substance of the Greek Cypriot representative apos s original speech, since such baseless rhetoric has been repeatedly refuted on similar occasions before, notably in my letter addressed to Your Excellency dated 29 November 1993 (A C.3 48 23 dated 1 December 1993).