With such levels, the lead in the fuels commonly used by vehicles passing around us every day has gone beyond the tolerable boundary.

The tsunami has brought unprecedented global solidarity, and also brought unprecedented challenges for us to satisfy all donors and to gain international trust. We understand that from newspaper, television, and other media, international society has learned that there are many spectacles, many problems and dissatisfaction in the last 12 months. Therefore, we initiated a meeting to present the progress report.

We are seeing quite a significant decline (in gas supply) while the new reserves discovered are not as big as we expected them to be.

We get people's agreement to everything before proceeding with the rebuilding of each village. That's why it's slow. We want to avoid complications by having people know who owns the land.

The best thing that is happening to us is that we have a day off. We have kind of lost our game.

If he would have stayed in the game, it might have been a long day for us. We just didn't play up to our level.