I express my Government's solidarity with the victims and with the Government of the United States, and I ask God to swiftly assuage the grief of so many families.

The Secretariat could issue the notice to the address provided on the List the Team suggests this simple piece of paper could help to assuage critics and ensure that some process is provided.

This bellicosity has had the effect of pushing Hillary Clinton, the front runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, into distancing herself from Obama. Like Hollande, she has to assuage public fear by talking tough and promising more military action.

The second undesirable possibility that governments with little spending capacity to assuage public anger turn against democracy and free expression is also remote for now. Democratic institutions in industrial countries are stronger, and have deeper roots, than was the case in the 1930s.

Perhaps to assuage political fears and considerations of international law any plebiscite in the Kurdish region should, initially, have only a consultative status. But it will give legitimate expression to the will of a people long oppressed and entitled to their place in the sun.

A mere statement by the US that it has no intention to press this military advantage will not assuage China s fears. Chinese leaders recall that the US promised Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev that German reunification and democratic transition in Eastern Europe would not mean eastward expansion of NATO.

To assuage its traditional ally s sense of abandonment, the US, may mistakenly withhold support for the initiatives recognizing the State of Palestine in the coming months. But it is essential that the EU, which finances and maintains Palestine s provisional institutions, not relent in its determination to make them permanent.

With the fiscal deficit being financed through money creation, inflation is high and the hryvnia, Ukraine s currency, has depreciated (though nowhere near as much as the Russian ruble). An external aid package that is large enough to restore confidence and assuage financing doubts is a precondition for successful structural reform.

Handled with forbearance and firmness, relations with Russia should remain difficult but manageable. With NATO backing off, the European Union stepping in with its Eastern Partnership initiative to shift continuing competition in the post Soviet space onto a less antagonistic footing, and President Barack Obama demonstrating his willingness to assuage Russia s damaged pride, major confrontation should be avoidable.

Similarly, if Xi remains confident enough in his control of the PLA and truly follows China s official policy of peaceful development, he will be able to take the kind of prudent approach that Deng advocated. This would entail recognizing and trying to assuage the fears that China s rise is causing among its neighbors, as Otto von Bismarck did after German unification in 1871.

In the meantime, a major effort must be launched to assuage the concerns of Iran s neighbors, several of which will be tempted to hedge their bets against Iran s potential breakout in 15 years by pursuing nuclear programs of their own. The Middle East is already nightmarish enough without the added risks posed by a number of would be nuclear powers.

But eurozone leaders inability to assuage doubt about their commitment to the euro after two and a half years of crisis suggests that the problem is deeply rooted. In their own defense, eurozone ministers point to the raft of reforms that they have introduced over the past 30 months, which will promote economic modernization, the restoration of sound government finances, and closer economic coordination.