We cannot allow the reform effort to be derailed or to run out of steam.

The international community and, in particular, the Quartet have a crucial role to play to get the derailed peace process back on track.

This raises an important tactical challenge for China. How can it stay the reform course without being derailed by a significant growth slowdown in the short term?

It should have been clear to them that a violent crackdown was inevitable. By provoking the regime, the students derailed any chance of slow political reform, which their more moderate elders had carefully set in train.

Within days of the votes, they failed to agree on the EU budget for 2007 13. French and British leaders engaged in a heated quarrel that derailed the subsequent summit, before Britain assumed the rotating six month EU presidency in July.

Rouhani and I met in 2003, sitting across from each other at the first nuclear talks, when our negotiating team was made up of only Europeans. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad s election as President of Iran in 2005 derailed those talks and ultimately led to the imposition of sanctions.

Let us not be diverted by false rhetoric. Let us not be blinded by distorted images. Let us not be derailed by old tactics. Let us rise to the occasion, observe the large and hopeful picture, and seize this moment to allow this historic process to be successfully completed.

But last year, it seemed that success was within reach until the clash of narratives derailed the progress the two sides had made. This highlights a larger problem the European Union lacks a unifying narrative strong enough to prevent the emergence of conflicting and highly destructive narratives within its borders.

Going to Congress for approval was always going to involve more risks than rewards. Secretary of State John Kerry s description of the planned US military response to the Ghouta massacre as likely to be unbelievably small almost derailed the utility of the US threat in concentrating Syrian and Russian officials minds.

We now know that the best credit must stand behind the rest, or else bear runs, such as those that have derailed Greece, Ireland, and Portugal and that now threaten to do the same to Italy and Spain are inevitable. Debt mutualization alone will not save the euro, but, without it, the eurozone is unlikely to survive intact.

Mrs. Asmady (Indonesia) As reform of the United Nations will be accorded priority on the agenda of the General Assembly's High level Plenary Meeting in September 2005, it is regrettable that the preparations for that historic event face the prospect of being derailed by the controversy over Security Council reform, especially the expansion of its membership.

Suffice it to say that there Nepal faces a multitude of flashpoints, as well as a large number of detractors who would like to see this historic process derailed. The success or failure of the Constituent Assembly will rest on whether the presumptive winner, the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoists), will work collaboratively with the other parties rather than trying to push its own agenda exclusively.

According to a recent report on the aftermath of the 2008 crisis, prepared by Better Markets, an advocacy group that pushes for stronger financial reforms, the cost to the US economy of the financial crisis caused by financial institutions reckless risk taking amounts to at least 12.8 trillion. A big part of this cost has come in the form of jobs lost and lives derailed for the bottom 47 of the American income distribution.

It is easy for business to want government just to get out of the way, and for the media to point fingers and sensationalize events without much depth of analysis or even, sometimes, grasp of reality. True, India may not be the best advertisement for democracy in some respects, given how hard it often seems there to make long term decisions and implement them without being buffeted and frequently derailed by volatile public opinion and hard nosed vested interests.