It requires that people from all cultural, religious and ethnic groups be protected and empowered.

Good information requires not just the right to know, but also the right to tell a diversified media.

Elections are meaningful only if they are perceived to be free and fair, which requires independent referees.

In addition, the strategic results proposed here are broad, and will require inputs from many agencies, Governments and partners.

This requires innovation in the financial services and products on offer, which in turn requires that women locally, regionally, and internationally are helping to formulate the solutions.

Doing so would require significant investment, which in turn would require international confidence in Iraq s future stability.

Unemployed workers had to find jobs in new industries, which took more time and training.

Doing away with this illusion requires the creation of a global emissions market still a very distant goal.

It is not something that requires doing doctorates in politics or economics.

But this also will require successful political modernization, which means nothing less than constraining the power of the center.

After all, global optimization would require a global policymaking authority, which we do not have.

So it is essential to ensure that everyone can live up to their potential, which requires educational opportunities for all.

Democratic international relations are the underpinning of democratic national policies that means that the United Nations must have a leadership role in democratic practice among nations, which requires support for the proposed reforms, as contained in the outcome document and stressed by the Secretary General.

It requires consensus here at the United Nations on what constitutes injustice, especially historical injustice, and on what constitutes unfairness.

We know that it is not possible to attain global peace unless we establish sustainable peace in the Middle East, which requires resolving the Palestinian question.

Such reforms require a grand bargain between America s political parties, which in turn presupposes visionary leadership by both of them.

The private sector needs to become more involved in infrastructure, which requires the adoption of adequate public private partnerships.

It also requires more energy efficiency, which means a reduction of waste in both energy production and consumption.

We have to make the food system work for all citizens, which requires stronger action from each of these actors.

This is an important area of work for NIs and should be further encouraged.

Reform was a difficult task, which involved a range of complex legal and procedural questions.

Beijing Climate change is a serious challenge to humanity and sustainable development, which requires both proactive responses and concerted effort by the international community.

Given the distribution of seats in the Parliament, a constitutional amendment required the support of Mr. Hariri's bloc, a support he was unprepared to lend.

That requires listening as well as speaking.

Nor is there any easy escape, at least in the short run, by joining the EU, which may well require an independent Scotland to apply for membership.

This, however, requires an adequate understanding of those interests and a willingness to cooperate on the basis of mutual trust, which should be a given within the European family.

Specifically, it requires leadership by a country with the power of the purse and the willingness to use it.

Distinguishing between enhancement and treatment requires defining normality and disease, which is notoriously difficult.

Political action implies actually leaving Iraq quickly and finding a fair solution to the Palestinian conflict, which in turn requires ending the occupation of all Palestinian territories.

The US must choose between job creation, which requires a more competitive exchange rate, and cheap financing of its external and fiscal deficits.

A normal monetary union, which is what the eurozone aspires to be, requires a normal central bank to carry out the entire range of central banking functions.

Instead, this requires that, at the very least, there should be a process of consultation and dialogue for following up the commitments made.

Only an alliance of conservative leaders and powers (including a retreat by America from diplomatic radicalism), Abdullah believes, can restore some stability to the Middle East.

One challenge is the need to arrest the erosion of America s relative power, which in turn requires comprehensive domestic renewal, including fiscal consolidation.

This will not be possible without private sector participation, which requires, in turn, a business environment that ensures adequate return on investment, transparency in procurement, and high quality governance and regulation.

The ultimate objective of economic policy is to increase households consumption potential, which requires giving them unhindered access to the cheapest possible goods and services.

However, any such stimulus must go hand in hand with an appropriation of the local political process by the citizenry, and this requires political mobilization through training, information, awareness raising and organization for individuals and communities at the grass roots level.

This calls for diversification of production, urbanization, and industrialization, which in turn require policy interventions that may lie at considerable distance from the poor (such as fixing regulations or targeting the value of the currency).

America needs to expand its share in external global demand, which requires public sector investment, structural change, and improved competitiveness in the tradable sector.

Official bankruptcy, a regular occurrence, required prolonging maturities on state debt and reducing interest payments.

Negotiation is the foundation of the Conference on Disarmament, and like any negotiation it requires that all those involved show goodwill and flexibility.

Building a nation demands more than steel and concrete.

And just as it usually takes several individuals to cause an incident, so it often takes several genetic variations, plus ambient factors, to cause a disease.

Since the 1990 s, therefore, nationalism has replaced Communism as the justification for the one party state, which requires stirring up anti Western above all, anti Japanese sentiment.

While this belief unfortunately does have some validity, it requires one very important caveat Russia is part of that ship.