My brother, Henry, he died tragically when we were teenagers.

They have been tragically deprived of the basic capacities for human development.

We must ensure that this does not continue, as has happened so tragically in the past.

Over the past year, we have been tragically reminded of human vulnerability in the face of natural disasters.

Most recently, we've been tragically reminded of the destructive power of nature itself with the recent earthquake in Haiti.

And tragically in 2003 , a scientist was taken down and drowned, and she was being consumed by a leopard seal.

And that's more or less the story of the coral reefs of the Caribbean, and increasingly, tragically, the coral reefs worldwide.

That is a particularly sensitive matter for the small island developing States most vulnerable to natural disasters, as has been tragically demonstrated.

Tragically, another, unprecedented natural disaster has struck brotherly countries of the Asia Pacific region and we express our solidarity to those countries.

Tragically, Paraguay is landlocked, which is a considerable obstacle to our aspiration to build an economy based on production and international trade.

As a nation tragically aware of the human costs of terrorism, Australia remains a strong ally in your Committee's efforts to combat this scourge.

But we also need to say in this forum that the protectionism of rich countries is like a vice that, tragically, is strangling our peoples.

We also wish to pay tribute to the memory of the former Prime Minister of Lebanon, His Excellency Mr. Rafik Hariri, who was tragically assassinated yesterday.

Tragically, that peace did not save the lives of many others who continued to fight and die in the Pacific for another four or five months.

This tragically small sum amounts to just three cents for every 100 of US gross national product, which is less than two days of US military spending.

It has become tragically obvious that colonization and the peace process are incompatible there can be no peace with the continued colonization of the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem.

Tragically, three civilians were killed two Palestinians and one Chinese citizen all of whom were working in the Gush Katif settlement block in southern Gaza five Palestinians labourers were also wounded.

Tragically, it has become clear that the most affected group has been young children, of whom at least 50,000 were swept away but there are also tens of thousands left orphaned.

The obvious solution to the euro crisis would be a federal solution. But federation has been made less, not more, likely by a crisis that tragically set one proud nation against another.

The President I begin this morning by expressing our solidarity with the people of Pakistan and of its neighbours India and Afghanistan who have been tragically affected by a devastating earthquake this weekend.

And tragically, in 1999, when she was in Colombia working with the U'wa people, focused on preserving their culture and language, she and two colleagues were abducted and tortured and killed by the FARC.

The US or other outside powers will not save Kenyan democracy. Threats, sanctions, or aid cutoffs would only cause further damage to an economy already in free fall, tragically punishing Kenya s poor while fomenting further violence.

Tragically, however, Morocco had been able to persist in its illegal and brutal occupation of Western Sahara and its flagrant violations of United Nations resolutions and international law and the United Nations had done next to nothing.

Mr. Assaf (Lebanon) (spoke in Arabic) In Lebanon today, we seem to be in a constant state of sorrow we have lost the former Prime Minister of our country, Mr. Rafik Hariri, who was tragically assassinated yesterday.

A recent World Bank study estimated that the damage from the triple disaster (earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear crisis) in March might ultimately cost Japan 235 billion (excluding the value of lives tragically lost). That is about 4 of Japanese GDP in 2010.

Extending our deepest sympathies and condolences to the victims of the recent tsunami disaster and their families and to the people and Governments of those countries who tragically suffered huge loss of life, serious injuries and extensive material damages from the tsunami disaster,

Tragically, genocide is happening again, this time in Sudan. A heightened security agenda since the attacks on the United States in September 2001 has included attempts to legitimize the use of extraordinary rendition (the movement between countries of prisoners and suspects without due process of law) and torture.

And yet tragically, when you now go to those northern communities, you find to your astonishment that whereas the sea ice used to come in in September and stay till July, in a place like Kanak in northern Greenland, it literally comes in now in November and stays until March.

From this rostrum, I would like to express my sincerest sympathy for the afflicted populations of the southern part of the United States of America that have been so tragically affected by the passage of Hurricane Katrina in August, one of the most devastating hurricanes ever to strike our continent.

People began to figure out, in the Sichuan Provence, that the reason so many school buildings had collapsed because tragically the earthquake happened during a school day the reason so many school buildings collapsed is that corrupt officials had taken bribes to allow those building to be built to less than code.

Tragically, strong resistance from Israel and the Jewish diaspora has led Obama to acknowledge openly his powerlessness in the conflict, and thus to abandon US political pressure on Israel. As a result, a small group of pro Israeli congressmen has been free to threaten and pressure those countries likely to vote for the recognition of the Palestinian state.

And I happen to know that company pretty well because John Heinz, who was our U.S. senator who was tragically killed in a plane accident he had heard about my desire to build a new building, because I had a cardboard box and I put it in a garbage bag and I walking all over Pittsburgh trying to raise money for this site.

Now political Islam can no longer be contained, because democracy cannot be built by driving underground parties that have a strong social base, as was tragically demonstrated in Algeria 15 years ago. The only alternative to authoritarianism is to craft a transition that allows Islamists to participate in public life and encourages them to accept unequivocally the rules of the democratic game.

The Dominicans are right to seek at least a more solid regional commitment. The Haitian refugee crisis in the early 1990 s tragically showed that no country in the region including the United States, which either repatriated most illegal immigrants or confined them to the hardship of open camps in Guantánamo Bay was ready to absorb the Haitians who fled their politically torn country.

History is not particularly encouraging when it comes to adjusting to profound changes new actors and shifting balances of power as the twentieth century tragically and repeatedly demonstrated. The tsunami that so devastated much of Asia has provided an opportunity for all key players in government, industry, academia, the media, and civil society to look at Asia anew, at both the challenges and the opportunities that have arisen from Asia s resurgence.

These are ambitious hopes, but even if the UN Security Council adopts and implements a resolution that would lead to such an eventual solution, it will provide just another band aid and temporary relief. Tragically, the current conflict is part of the inevitably repetitive cycle of violence that results from the absence of a comprehensive settlement in the Middle East, exacerbated by the almost unprecedented six year absence of any real effort to achieve such a goal.