That is exactly what our experience from Bam, Iran, shows.

As we know from firsthand experience, that is not an easy task.

Let's see how it does. This was our very first trial, and... Spectators Goal!

We in Ukraine learned this truth from harsh experience in the communist era.

Drawing from our domestic experience, we believe that gender mainstreaming and empowerment are critical factors for development.

We are pleased that our own experience here is consistent with the conclusions of authoritative scientific forums.

Our long and bitter experience of war comes through human error, stupidity and a mutual lack of understanding.

Our experience has shown that savings and credit organizations are best suited to microfinance.

On the basis of our experience in the Caribbean region, we have a common university for the Anglophone Caribbean.

As our own experience has shown, commitment to radical market reforms, democracy and the principles of good governance is of crucial importance.

Our experience in India from the freedom movement to present times shows that diversity is a source of strength and effectiveness.

In the Caribbean, we have our own experience with hurricanes, and during the last season we suffered widespread devastation.

Eventually, I resigned as principal investigator on our Venus experiment because a planet changing before our eyes is more interesting and important.

The fact is that our experience contains disconnected entities as well as various types of connections, it is full of meaning and values.

Our recent and ongoing experience with the reform of the United Nations, and particularly of the Security Council, is but one of many such examples.

And, finally, we know from our own experience that reducing poverty needs strong economic growth and a vibrant private sector.

We intend to actively share our experience and have expressed our willingness to cooperate with other States with a view to the establishment of similar programmes.

Our experience is that, in the absence of an emergency situation, it takes two to five days depending upon the nature of the request.

I hope that our shared experience and the conclusions we reach will also be reflected in the outcome document of the summit in September.

Naturally, we are delighted to participate in this debate, and we are doing so from the perspective of our practical experience and our expectations.

Our experience demonstrates that aid can be most effective when provided as direct budgetary support for nationally designed development projects.

In addition, our experience underlines the link between militarism and the frequency of prostitution, trafficking, and other forms of violence against women. We sadly note how strongly military complexes dominate our world.

The lessons we have learned from our own experience lead us to conclude that achieving the Millennium Development Goals poses specific challenges to countries emerging from conflict.

No report on the status of the nation, women or children can be fully appreciated without making reference to our unique historical experience.

As we know from Nazi Germany and other cases, such movements do not always lead to a happy outcome.

Our own experience in South Africa has taught us that, given a chance, women can bring an important and much needed perspective to peace processes.

As our experience shows, the development of this kind of regional cooperation can be an important factor in peacebuilding and in strengthening regional stability.

It is for that reason that, thanks to our experience during more than 45 years of resistance, Cuba supports a peaceful and negotiated solution to the Palestinian issue.

If we had no bias, if we had no preconceptions, what kind of forms could we design if we could free ourselves from our experience?

From our own experience, we have seen that development can be achieved only against a backdrop of pluralism, democracy, good governance, the rule of law and gender sensitivity.

In our harsh experience, the consequences of such natural disasters divert huge sums from economic and social development and highlight the importance of strengthening ecological security.

Our experience has clearly shown the importance of transparent and effective governance, establishing the rule of law in both the judicial and the economic sectors, as well as efficiently combating corruption and organized crime at the national and regional levels.

In any case, since our experience is recent, our wealth of experience can be easily shared with those interested, and eventually generate positive momentum.

Based on our collective experience working for and with women, we review effective ways to confront the specific challenges of prostitution, trafficking, and other forms of violence against women.

And the first thing that went right was, of course, these five revolutions which, in my view, very much changed the way we're living and deepened our democratic experience.

Our newest experiment has been hatched by my colleague, Art Aron putting people who are reporting that they are still in love, in a long term relationship, into the functional MRI.

Therefore, it has been, for Chileans, a time of assessment and of asking ourselves a very simple, yet profound, question have we done things right or wrong?

Getting alongside the community in conflict situations, working with them in their own structures and acknowledging and acting on the validity of their own views is, in our experience, essential.

From our experience around the world, we have learned that addressing both past and present abuses, based on the rule of law and international norms, can go a long way in promoting national reconciliation efforts.

But the more that I think about it, the more that I think that a few things that we have learned along the way are interesting lessons for how we would rewire if we we wanted to use the web to have a wider world.

I would like to recall that our experiences in West Africa reveal that certain sister States such as Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea Bissau could have benefited from the existence of an effective institutionalized peacebuilding mechanism.

We defy those who seek to corrupt our democracy, but we stand with the hand of friendship extended to all of our neighbors, including Russia. It has no reason to intervene.

Our experience in handling missing files in places such as Kosovo, Bosnia, Iran, Iraq and other places have shown the exact opposite. Tackling the missing file helps reduce tensions and helps the country heal.

The experience of the Pacific Regional Assistance Mission to the Solomon Islands and our experience in Bougainville is that community involvement for example, through women's groups and church groups provides an important avenue for the development of local ownership of the solutions.

17 who were happily in love, 15 who had just been dumped, and we're just starting our third experiment studying people who report that they're still in love after 10 to 25 years of marriage.