And here we face a difficulty.

We find ourselves in a unique position.

That is the stage at which we find ourselves.

Immanuel Kant teaches us that the circumstances in which we find ourselves must always be judged against the circumstances in which, but for chance, we might have found ourselves.

We might find ourselves warm and contented in a cocoon of untruth.

Unchecked, it could become a security crisis.

We find ourselves in the paralyzing grip of self destructive habits we can't break.

As a result, we find ourselves drawn to a product without quite knowing why.

A dangerous situation may well emerge, as this report threatens to derail the whole process.

Even if we can live with our neighbours without conflict, we find ourselves vulnerable to natural risks.

They will grow stronger, until we will reach another crossroads at that point, there will be no choice.

But it does. Generally, we haven't got ourselves into this mess through big disasters.

Today, we find ourselves at an equally exciting moment, no less critical to the future of humankind.

But, at some point, we will confront some limit to growth.

In the case of the public declaration by the King of Jordan, we are dealing with an act prohibited under domestic law.

Will we want to take them if they ever become available? And what does it say about us if we won t?

Next, no doubt, we will have the prospect of a bilateral free trade agreement between the EU and the US.

If we live without sufficiently caring for our environment, we will find ourselves in a very perilous situation one day.

This is not just or mainly because we will soon enough run up against the natural limits to growth.

Now, we may soon face the same concerns over energy policy, and not just for oil.

The challenge for the United Nations now is to redefine its authority and responsibility in the global environment in which we find ourselves.

It is always dangerous to give the impression of being the first to blink when facing authoritarian regimes.

If not, we will face a much longer period of economic and political disorder and decline.

When we do not invest adequately in peacebuilding, we find ourselves paying much more for renewed peacekeeping efforts down the line.

We may also be confronted with false choices, seeing trade offs between output and environmental protection that don t exist.

And if that person is in need, if that person is suffering, we're automatically prepared to help. At least that's the argument.

So, while we understand very well what may have produced the financial crisis, we find ourselves helpless to draw usable lessons from it.

By the same token, unless we recognize and address the problems of globalization, it will be difficult to sustain.

Come to think of it whatever happened to the Poles, whom Russia so successfully put down in 1863?

We are among those who believe that the stalemate in which we find ourselves is a symptom of a political divergence on our main priorities.

It is indeed discouraging that we find ourselves at the same place year after year that is to say, in non agreement on an agenda.

And I know that a lot of times we find ourselves in this wonderful place where we ve gotten to, but there s another place for us to go.

There can be two, very different Asian centuries, and the one that emerges will have profound consequences for the region s peoples and governments and for the world.

We now find ourselves at the end of the United Nations first Decade on the World's Indigenous People, without a consensus on the Draft Declaration.

If we fail to accept that simple fact, come the 2012 elections, we will find ourselves right back where we were after the disputed elections of 2007.

Second, we find ourselves in the unusual position of having a global leader the United States that is also the world s biggest debtor.

Yet we economists find ourselves increasingly disturbed by the apparent inadequacy of the neo Marshallian toolkit that we have built to explain our world.

Mr. Kapoma (Zambia) Once again, as at previous sessions of the General Assembly, we are called upon to discuss the important question of peace and security in the Middle East.

However, we found ourselves in a position to respond to some of the comments made by a delegation that asked for the elimination of two important Committees established through General Assembly resolutions.

Stressing the new Fed chief s professionalism may only delay the moment when this lesson is learned again.

Here is the dilemma Governments with substantial assets have flexibility and the capacity to act, but they can also mismanage their assets to the detriment of markets and economic dynamism.

Now that we have entered the twenty first century, we must take another look at the state of international relations, so that they will be based on trust, dialogue and cooperation.

And you have this very strongly to the extent that, even if you see when we talk about revolutions these days, these revolutions are not named anymore around ideologies or ideas.

If skeptics are right, then we should accept that we will periodically be out of financial and fiscal balance without knowing it in advance.

But if the initial approach to financial reform doesn t work, we face the prospect of another financial crisis every bit as serious as the last.