We are grateful for the fact that on that solemn occasion, on 25 September 1997, the Security Council reaffirmed its principal responsibility for the preservation of peace on our continent.

The crop field is used as a shooting range for the army.

Reaffirming the equal rights of women and men as enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations,

There was no sense of the fact that this is next to Saint Paul that this is really a place that needs to be kind of dignified, and a place to reflect and remember.

You will entertain them in a particularly grand manner.

I've promised before.

All was so solemn and important.

Commitments solemnly given must be implemented.

You remember, Papa, the ice pond...

Major damage was inflicted on approximately 120 villages, including places of worship, the communications and telephone networks, commercial enterprises and shops, vehicles, farms, schools and vital installations (water and electricity stations)

And that began to make it solemn.

Seventy villages suffered 50 per cent destruction, while others were severely damaged, including some of the villages affected by the February earthquake.

Let them wear just enough for modesty.

I give you my sacred word of honor.

Just for the occasion.

The journey out will be more dignified than the journey in.

The institutions are solemn, and so is the design.

And she promised on her sacred word of honor.

And when they produce their crops, they sell the surplus on marketplaces.

We will take refuge in the mountains, on the farms in the small villages.

Also, under the law, each member of a collective farm household has equal rights of ownership during distribution. Restructuring of kolkhozes and sovkhozes into leased enterprises and agricultural collectives is permitted.

James, behave yourself. We are being filmed.

After the rally, the residents returned to the village square where they staged another rally.

The community has established very good relations with the neighbouring villages, with which it shares its services medical clinic, school, sportsground, human rights workshops.

Another important focus was the drive to recover traditional village authority, concentrating on capacity building in the villages, which remained short of the human and organizational skills required.

Another important focus was the drive to recover traditional village authority, concentrating on capacity building in the villages, in which there was still a shortage of the human and organizational skills required (see A C.4 52 SR.4)

In Majdal Shams, some 300 residents staged a march from the village square to the Shouting Hill .

I was given the clothes that I needed to wear and told where I needed to be, given these very precious and holy looking robes to wear, with the understanding that it was something sacred or important.

It is my view that, up to now, the key commitments to the peoples enshrined in the United Nations Charter have not been given their due weight.

Several major co operative field experiments have been carried out.

In today s internecine warfare, the village has become the battlefield and civilian populations the primary target.

This august Council, by adopting this resolution, has once again ridden roughshod over the African position.

At the September summit, world leaders made solemn pledges and took important decisions on United Nations reform.

Its importance has been highlighted by the General Assembly on several occasions.

Most important, we heard an unfailing commitment to international cooperation and to the United Nations and the purposes and principles enshrined in its Charter.

Hmm, from an Englishman's point of view the mere size of it takes your breath away.

Today, the United Nations is undergoing an extremely important reform.

With respect to human rights, my Government solemnly reaffirms its commitment to work tirelessly to re establish the rule of law.

Palestinian towns and villages faced severe problems with the water supply.

momentous and incomprehensible was happening at that time.

It is also an opportunity solemnly to reaffirm the essential values that form the basis of our common action in the United Nations, renewed in the service of its peoples.

It has used force to expel the inhabitants from their land and from their towns, villages and farms.

Your experience, your wisdom and the dignity with which you lead this Conference prompt respect and admiration.

Decent.

This is the first time that a representative of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) has spoken from this rostrum.