There's no remedy.

That leaves them a huge mountain to climb. Absolutely, Major Cotton.

Governments are not organized to meet them.

And about the only fun you have left is pretending that there ain't any facts to face.

A few little odds and ends, but I'll get the money for that.

It will become virulent and it's something we have to build resilience against.

It is therefore vitally necessary to anticipate and adopt a forward looking approach.

It is the shock, not the adjustments to it, that spreads throughout the system.

It is incumbent on us all to move quickly to respond to them by changing the way that business is conducted.

So, our responsibility is not simply shielding those we care for from adversity, but preparing them to meet it well.

Such action will, furthermore, permit an understanding of the extent of existing problems and consideration of the adoption of the measures necessary to face them.

This process should include an advance assessment of possible negative effects on the economies of neighbouring countries and an analysis of possible means to counteract them.

These have already generated a wave of conflicts to which Europe was not prepared to make an adequate response.

Contemporary humans lived in small communities, and those who succumbed to infection either died or developed immunity.

Allocating relatively small amounts of resources to prevention and preparedness can lead to tremendous savings in terms of human lives and property.

4. Moreover, the scope of the arrangement should correspond to the global and multi disciplinary nature of the problems addressed by the Convention and of the responses that these require.

It's about conserving emotions, conserving the traditions that have obstructed the mind in moving forward and of course what is radical is to confront them.

However, the tribal society of the Gauls did not change fast enough for the centralized Roman state, who would learn to counter them.

Second, those Muslims and the good news is that there are many who know the problem exists, and want to do something about it, lose heart.

These consultations will provide a framework for gathering information on violence against children, focusing increased attention on the problem and mobilizing the political will to confront it.

The international community is increasingly aware of the problems posed by terrorist use of the Internet and discussion has begun on possible measures to address them.

Last but not least, Japan wishes to emphasize the importance of prevention and preparedness, especially in the context of natural disasters.

(a) The effects of the foreign debt and the policies adopted to face them on the full enjoyment of all human rights, in particular economic, social and cultural rights in developing countries

The dangers we face may be novel, but the structures we draw on to cope with them derive from a world that has largely vanished from view.

The Heads of State and Government of the States participating in the South East European Cooperation Process

74. The Committee is encouraged by the Government apos s willingness to define and appreciate the problems impeding the implementation of the rights provided for in the Convention and to search for adequate solutions to face them.

There was no doubt that the threat to United Nations personnel was real, and Member States must do everything in their power to address it.

Urges the international community to render assistance for setting up national, sub regional, regional and international disaster prevention, preparedness and management mechanisms, including early warning systems.

I am pleased that a broad consensus emerged recognizing the interdependence among threats and challenges and the need for collective action to address them, consistent with the principles and purposes of the United Nations Charter.

As the World Bank s chief economist and senior vice president, I was in the middle of the conflagration and the debates about its causes and the appropriate policy responses.

48 (g)) in which he invites international sports organizations to take tough measures against the perpetrators of racist incidents. The Special Rapporteur believes that international sports bodies should ask national federations to submit annual reports on racist incidents and the action taken in response to them.

Thirdly and finally the Department needs the resources necessary to coordinate a rapid response by the United Nations to an emergency where insufficient capacity exists in the field.

So, although the IAEA will continue to play a vital role, it will be more of a band aid than a cure for the atomic risks that we will all have to assume.

NEW DELHI As the New Year dawns, it has become increasingly clear that India s new government faces a dilemma entirely of its own making one that its predecessor never had to confront.

In this respect, the seventh review conference of the Treaty on the Non Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons is an ideal framework for taking up concerns about the link between terrorism and nuclear weapons and deciding collectively on measures to be taken to deal with them.

6. The Security Council, having been confronted since the early 1990s with a volume of business it had not experienced up to then, became accustomed to carrying out most of its work in the form of private consultations.

Already weakened by an unprecedented economic crisis, and without having been forearmed, our countries have found themselves in the grip of a complex criminal and drug problem with all the social consequences it entails.

40. The Committee of the Whole noted with concern the ever growing problem of drug abuse and illicit trafficking, which had now spread to countries which had neither the experience nor the infrastructure and other resources to deal with it.

Since the adoption in 2001 of the Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects,15 awareness of the problem has grown and there have been various initiatives to tackle it.

Jamaica, having just witnessed the devastating effect of a major hurricane, was cognizant of the challenges which plagued countries afflicted by natural disasters and of the importance of international assistance in meeting those challenges.

The lack of information on the complex nature of disasters and the lack of models of good practice for disaster preparedness and response, as well as the lack of building codes and regulatory frameworks to support more effective urban planning processes, will need to be urgently addressed.

The report to be submitted to the Assembly at its forty ninth session will address the issue of budgetary requirements reflecting the increased documentation processing workload and the resources needed to cope with it, via a revised approach that would be based on the analysis and measurement of the total demand for documentation rather than on the output statistics of work completed.

I may say in conclusion that Bangladesh remains fully committed to the United Nations as the only forum that can deal with the cooperative management of the world apos s problems and where we can successfully meet the challenge of the future by drawing upon our combined solidarity to confront it together.

It is the shock, not the adjustments to it, that spreads throughout the system. The inescapable information deficit obstructs all those smoothly working adjustment mechanisms i.e., flexible wages and flexible interest rates posited by mainstream economic theory.

any impediments under your domestic law in this context and steps taken to address them.