It was an opportunity to report about positive news, to report about a country that had gone from war to peace.
Its choice as the Palestinian delegation's headquarters ten years ago, when Israel and its Arab neighbours boldly embarked on the Madrid peace conference, made it an emblem of the longed-for turn from war to peace.
They are fed up with leaders who use ideology, religion and war to distract from the real challenges to peace, prosperity and democracy: a lack of education, a failure to provide jobs and economic opportunity, and the subjugation of women.
And so the Strategic Partnership Agreement, this NATO Summit, are all part and parcel of a shared vision that we have in which Afghanistan is able to transition from decades of war to a transformational decade of peace and stability and development.
The stabilizing part played by the EU has helped to transform most of Europe from a continent of war to a continent of peace.
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"It is that full span, from peace time to war and everything in between, " said Capt.
That is the responsibility of the Afghan government, which must step up its ability to protect its people, and move from an economy shaped by war to one that can sustain a lasting peace.
Here we were treated to a mirror image as Ferguson's concise answers to routine questions were made to seem like whole chapters from War and Peace by the time Fifa's Japanese translator had worked her magic.
Instead, they assert suavely that all Angolans are brothers, all have suffered from the war, and all are now winners thanks to the peace.
The dispute over the islands called the southern Kuril Islands by Russia and the Northern Territories in Japan has kept the two countries from signing a peace agreement after World War II and continues to be a thorn in bilateral relations.
Sixty-four years ago, a group of nations emerging from the shadow of war joined together to light a path toward lasting peace.
Thank you for all you do to nurture fragile peace and help societies recover from the effects of war and destruction.
The chart above shows the debt record of presidents since Eisenhower. (I exclude FDR, who borrowed heavily to finance World War II, and Truman, who benefited from an enormous peace dividend, because they are both outliers by a wide margin.) Four of the five biggest borrowers were Republicans.
And it is the example of Africans -- from Liberia to Mozambique to Sierra Leone -- that after the darkness of war, there can be a new day of peace and progress.
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