This is a lesson that European leaders, sitting on the edge of a financial meltdown and dithering over a solution, should keep foremost in their minds.
The actions announced today brought expressions of relief from many of the same people who were making dire predictions just a few days ago as the negotiations over a solution seemed to stall between New York and federal officials.
Another critical component in the complicated negotiations over a solution is the Great Council of Chiefs, a 100-member group of hereditary and appointed chiefs, who have great influence over native Fijians in rural areas.
Investor worries about the deadlock among European leaders over a solution for the Greek debt crisis have pushed up borrowing costs in recent days for the much bigger European economies of Italy and Spain.
At this writing, for example, the German Bundestag is in a fight to the finish over a solution to the economic crisis that has already been overtaken by events.
He said Paris was talking to Moscow and United Nations special envoy Lakhdar Brahimi over a solution, as it waited for the Syrian coalition to form a provisional government in the weeks ahead that could open the door to supplying arms.
