So powerful people tend to be, not surprisingly, more assertive and more confident, more optimistic.

It is time for the Assembly to be more assertive within the mandate accorded it by the Charter.

Thailand's experience has taught us that, ultimately, developing nations can and should become equal and assertive partners in our own development.

Thus, China s rulers acted in character last December, when they cracked down on news organizations that were getting a bit too assertive.

Probably not, right? You want the person who's powerful and assertive and dominant, but not very stress reactive, the person who's laid back.

This assertive and high profile operation immediately established the visibility and authority of EUFOR and made a positive early impact both nationally and internationally.

In implementing the unitary United Nations concept, Member States would need to be far more assertive in guiding and setting the policy agenda of agencies.

Response

Russia is not becoming assertive, aggressive, or imperial, as many observers claim. We are only claiming what is rightfully ours a place in the front row of international relations.

Humanitarian response

Humanitarian response

Disaster response

Rapid response

Government response

Despite its professed strategic pivot toward Asia, US President Barack Obama s administration has done little to address China s increasingly assertive efforts to stake its territorial claims in the South and East China Seas or North Korea s affronts to the status quo on the Korean Peninsula. Add to that America s weak response to Russia s annexation of Crimea, and it is no wonder that Israeli and Palestinian leaders have dismissed its peace overtures.

This prospect is hardly encouraging. If abuses and repression in the provinces continue no matter how attentive the central government, or how assertive the press might have become, what then?

Coordinating emergency response

Earthquake response exercises

Humanitarian response system

Response from Belgium

A Comprehensive Response

Response from Australia

A rising China, a resurgent Japan, an assertive Russia, and an anachronistic North Korea have added new complexities and uncertainties to the region. The latter s pursuit of nuclear arms is particularly worrying.

This four year strategy will result in the provision of much needed services (Crisis Management, Case Management, Assertive Community Treatment Teams and Early Intervention) to an additional 78,000 people by 2007 2008.

Principle 5 Response measures

Immediate detection, immediate response.

Lou s response Good question.

Emergency Preparedness and Response

Supporting effective emergency response.

No response was received.

No response was received.

Implementation of response measures

Others, however, see a Chinese strategy that is confused, contradictory, and paralyzed by competing bureaucratic interests. They point to the negative results of China s more assertive policies since the economic crisis of 2008.

If a Party modifies this response, it is required to submit the revised response to the Secretariat.

Response of the international community

Response of the international community

Now look at his response.

My response How about nothing?!

A string containing the response.

Audience Early detection, early response.

Smallpox early detection, early response.

Is terror the right response?

Ensuring capacity for emergency response

Draft principle 5 Response measures

The response has been overwhelming.