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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

TRIPs, the intellectual property provisions of the Uruguay round, were designed to reduce access to generic medicines and they succeeded.

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.

If the Fund is to live up to its potential it will need 2.3 billion to continue its work effectively in 2005.

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.

Even the UN s most ardent supporters now recognize that change is called for if the organization is to make a significant contribution to international peace and security.

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.

Forget about the hybrid auto Shai Agassi says it's electric cars or bust if we want to impact emissions. His company, Better Place, has a radical plan to take entire countries oil free by 2020.

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?

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.

So we must try to reconcile the yes and no countries if we are to overcome the crisis into which Europe has been plunged. And we need to do so quickly if the EU is to deliver on its citizens expectations.

But if these meetings are ever to be really effective, we need a change in format to spice things up.

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.

The web domain we'd been lusting after for a decade was up for grabs, and come hell or high water, he was going to win it.

If we do this, if we want to stay with traditional small scale farming we are going, actually, to relegate these poor farmers and their husbands among whom I have lived for many years, working without electricity and water, to try to improve their food production we relegate them to poverty.

Indeed, perestroika and the decade of reform that followed demonstrated that just following the formal structures of the Western democratic model isn t enough if Russia is to see reform implemented consistently.

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

If the IMF had to live up to private sector standards, it would create a new instrument that would meet members potential demand for short term liquidity.

If only we could feed hungry people with missiles and bullets!

The UN Commission argues that addressing this old issue raised more than 75 years ago by Keynes is essential if we are to have a robust and stable recovery.

And the spark of that beauty, the spark of that humanity transforms into hope, and we know, whether we choose the path of music or of medicine, that's the very first thing we must instill within our communities, within our audiences, if we want to inspire healing from within.

Social exclusion and personalized power through wealth are always unacceptable. But if we want freedom, then social and economic inequalities are a legitimate, and necessary, price to pay.

If a discrete exchange rate appreciation is to be sustained, it must reflect expected monetary policies tight money and deflation in the appreciated country, and easy money with inflation in the depreciated country. But domestic money growth in China s immature bank based capital market is high and unpredictable, while many interest rates remain officially pegged.