They are absolutely crucial if we are to bring vitality into the United Nations.

For their sake, and ours, we must not let them down.

If we really want to come to a point, we really want to put a cap on our carbon emission, we want to really lower the use of energy it has to be solved in countries like India.

If anti corruption campaigns are to be seen as effective, they must be fair and transparent.

But, if we want to go deeper, of course, we need another gas supply.

If we want to commence work, we can do so without preconditions.

My dad facetiously says, We wanted to save the world, and instead we just got rich.

If we want to meet those and other major challenges, we must involve young people.

If we want real action, we need to pick smarter solutions that will cost less and do more.

If globalization is to survive, it will need a new intellectual consensus to underpin it.

if we want to reduce the number of poor people we have to know what makes them poor in the first place.

And if we really want to get out of this economic mess, and if we really want high performance on those definitional tasks of the 21st century, the solution is not to do more of the wrong things, to entice people with a sweeter carrot, or threaten them with a sharper stick.

If we need to be respected collectively, we should be respectable collectively and need to act respectfully, all us Iranians.

In practical terms, how should it be built?

Those who have survived conflict require help if they are not to succumb to disease and starvation.

If we do not want the United Nations to be a lame duck, we must dare to give it the wings to fly.

Addressing those long term needs is vital if we are to prevent a recurrence or a slide back into conflict.

And if we want to cure ourselves of NDD, or Nature Deficit Disorder, I think this is a great way of doing it.

If we really want a sustainable future for all of humanity and our planet, we shouldn t plunge ourselves back into darkness.

If these interests are to gain universal recognition, we will need to shed the nation state myth once and for all.

And we need to do so quickly if the EU is to deliver on its citizens expectations.

But these trade offs must be made if Europe s military is to meet the Continent s security needs.

But if we want freedom, then social and economic inequalities are a legitimate, and necessary, price to pay.

Ukraine must continue in this way if our people are to trust the law and their institutions.

The reason, as US Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis put it, is that If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.

We want beauty we don't just want function.

Now, if we're talking about medicine, and we're talking about healing, I'd like to quote someone who hasn't been quoted.

But if the Mediterranean Union is to achieve more than was managed in its first manifestation, a number of things will need to happen.

If we seriously want to make sports an integral part of social development, we must start at the bottom, at the neighborhood level.

These two points drive home the message if we are going to prevent conflict we must ensure that peace agreements are implemented in a sustained and sustainable manner.

If such research is truly to serve the public good, the safety, health, and dignity of human subjects should not be compromised.

Changing weather patterns and the increasing magnitude and frequency of extreme weather events will require substantial investments if farmers are to adapt successfully.

We sent the proposal back for another review, only to be told that the grant should still not be funded, because the polymers would react with whatever drug we wanted to deliver.

If we really want to remain faithful to the memory of the victims and heroes of the Second World War, we must devote all our energy to achieve the ideals of the Charter of the United Nations.

Penalties for drug companies failure to report and communicate safety information must be increased dramatically if they are to serve as effective deterrents

Here's the thing, if we have goals and dreams, and we want to do our best, and if we love people and we don't want to hurt them or lose them, we should feel pain when things go wrong.

And, if we really wanted to benefit the world, 2 billion could halve the number of malaria infections, saving 850 million lives this century.

Moreover, states must be prepared to cede some sovereignty to world bodies if the international system is to function.

If that wound is to heal, much effort must be exerted to restore a functioning economy, strengthen internal security, and improve Palestinians relations with their neighbors and the international community.

If we want developing countries to be able to catch their own fish, we need to ensure a successful World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference in Hong Kong.

This is exactly the sort of substantive paper that we are going to need if we want to move work forward on an important and complex issue area, like the prevention of an arms race in outer space.

If we're going to deal with political conflict solving of conflicts, if we're going to understand these new groups which are coming from bottom up, supported by technology, which is available to all, we diplomats cannot be sitting back in the banquets believing that we are doing interstate relations.

And if we want to avoid success to failure syndrome, we just keep following these eight principles, because that is not only how we achieve success, it's how we sustain it.

How can we escape having a double standard, if we at the same time preach democracy and at the same time don't want to deal with the groups that are representative?

If Abbas is to prevail, it will not be through gestures or a process focusing on institution building, however important these may be.