We know that our borders are very close to each other.

And this is when I learned that our borders and our obstacles can only do two things

I refer here to the need to establish a physical presence of the United Nations system within our national borders.

Increasingly, we must recognize that our borders are not fortress walls.

While our country has achieved sufficient stability within, that is not true of our borders.

For its part, Pakistan has mounted a determined campaign to eliminate Al Qaida and Taliban elements on our side of the border and to prevent illegal cross border movement.

Of course, the insecurity on our borders should not cause us to lose sight of other crises in Africa and throughout the world.

We look forward to working with the Commission in the coming months as it formulates the recommendations on which our final and binding outer limit will be based.

Despite our continuing efforts to build up our security forces, those forces cannot as yet assume full responsibility for maintaining our national security and defending our borders.

Given our security requirements and the need to guard our long borders, which are not protected by any natural obstacle, the use of landmines forms an important part of our self defence strategy.

Our leadership must accept that the world of globalization and the new landscape mean that there is a need to think beyond our national boundaries for the common good and to bring peace and prosperity to the globe.

Indeed, our concern for the vulnerable population of Guatemala extends beyond our borders to include those Guatemalans that have migrated abroad some 11 per cent of our population.

Now is the time to face the world with eyes wide open yes, using experts to help us figure things out, for sure I don't want to completely do myself out of a job here but being aware of their limitations and, of course, also our own.

We were founded upon the ideal that all are created equal, and we have shed blood and struggled for centuries to give meaning to those words within our borders, and around the world.

An estimated thirty five percent of our population is immigrant, the vast majority of non natives being from sister Caribbean countries to whom we opened our borders when they faced economic distress and natural disasters.

The situation in the Middle East is also dire, given that on the other side of our northern border the only force that is in control of the territory is a terrorist organization helped, sponsored and guided by two States Members of the Organization.

These arrests furnished concrete information on Mauritanian youth who have received training under the supervision of the Algerian Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC), some of whom have returned to the country, while others are still in training outside its borders.

Moreover, freedom in America is indivisible from the freedom to practice one's religion. That is why there is a mosque in every state of our union, and over 1,200 mosques within our borders.

If our faith is strong enough, we can survive this crisis without destroying what we have built together by opening our borders, destroying the Wall, unifying Germany, and completing our democratic transitions.

They then tried to force the Ukrainian people to swallow this sham threatening to ban public gatherings, close our borders to new visa seekers, and silence any word of our protests on television.

It is structurally really, really hard to do, as the Bush administration rightly does, which is to denounce genocide on a Monday and then describe water boarding on a Tuesday as a no brainer and then turn up on Wednesday and look for troop commitments.

And all those watching tonight from beyond our shores, from parliaments and palaces, to those who are huddled around radios in the forgotten corners of the world, our stories are singular, but our destiny is shared, and a new dawn of American leadership is at hand.