Only by acting with realism and taking account of the differences will we meet the challenges of the millennium.

Finally, the representative called for a realistic response to the issue of debt relief and welcomed the initiative taken at the G8 Summit in Gleneagles.

So I went back to basics, and offered my personal assessment of what we might realistically try to do to bridge existing differences on a programme of work.

The current distance is rooted as much in ignorance as in hard political issues, many of which go beyond what arts and culture can realistically address.

I urge you to step up your efforts to put the existing priorities into a hierarchy and time frame that would realistically reflect the most pressing current threats to global peace and security.

There is a second obstruction as well the US Congress refuses to face up realistically to the climate challenge, because China, as a developing country, is not obliged to accept compulsory carbon limits.

There are some cluster II issues that we wish to underline, foremost among which is the issue of sanctions regimes. I can speak of sanctions regimes from personal experience, because my country suffered the side effects of sanctions for 13 years and continues to suffer the consequences of those sanctions.

Looking at Egypt s prospects realistically, one should not exclude the possibility that the two strongest forces in the country the military and the Muslim Brotherhood ultimately will find a way to share power.