His strength has been not to allow the perfect to become the enemy of the good.

Visibility really is key.

Iraq is not susceptible to a military solution.

But the Thai people cannot afford to look to their aging and ailing King every time they have a problem.

The potential is basically to change the game.

For example, if the Israeli Palestinian conflict can still be resolved, a solution can come only with strong US involvement.

But the history of economic crises shows that non economic factors play an equally important role in any solution.

They start off like 17 camels no way to resolve it.

Here, too, there are technological obstacles, but they seem surmountable.

Here, too, it is not difficult to discern the broad outlines of a solution.

But neither side is free of contradictions, and both are trapped in a seemingly insoluble conundrum.

Every state in the region must embrace compromise and mutual respect as the basis of a lasting settlement.

The peaceful resolution of conflict in the Sudan has positive implications for the region and beyond.

I asked all of them the same question When will we have a binding framework for cross border resolution?

Israel stressed its full support for the two State solution articulated in the Road Map.

Of course, not every issue that divides India and Pakistan can be resolved across a table, at least not right now.

How many of you in the last years have ever found yourself worrying about the Middle East and wondering what anyone could do?

Martti Ahtisaari fully deserved his Nobel Peace Prize for articulating a diplomatic solution to Kosovo s drive for independence.

In fact, Europe s educated Roma are proving every day that the problem is eminently solvable.

The Kingdom of Lesotho continues to believe that the issues of the working methods of the Council and of the expansion of its membership are both capable of resolution.

Why should this conflict, which has proven to be unsolvable in the past, be suddenly solved (or brought closer to a solution) by three actors Bush, Olmert, and Abbas who are all in a state of profound domestic weakness?

Moreover, a full European banking union with shared resources for resolution should be created without further delay.

Yet all of these problems can be solved, especially if we make the needed investments in research and development.

The response was an overwhelming majority of 368,392 votes for the dissolution and only 184 against, an unequivocal result.

The democracies in this region face a myriad of hazards, but one crucial challenge could be solved relatively easily the gross under representation of women in their legislative bodies.

But it needs to be a real union, with common deposit insurance and common resolution procedures, as well as common supervision.

Only the US can bring Israelis and Palestinians to a new negotiation process, much less draft a blueprint for a political solution.

Party leaders may not become sufficiently attuned to the needs of China s people to respond to problems like corruption, environmental degradation, or peasant unrest before crises make them unsolvable.

I had gone to villages and slums, saw the depth of problems in these places and assumed they could not be fixed.

What we can show is that when you do this kind of task with people that play a lot of action games, they actually resolve the conflict faster.

(I serve on the FDIC s Systemic Resolution Advisory Committee all views stated here are my own.)

Two fundamental facts have created an apparently insoluble dilemma for the global economy, and have turned countries like Argentina and Greece into victims of an impossible logic.

The garbage crisis in Naples remains unresolved putting the international reputation of one of Italy s most famous products, mozzarella, at risk.

While in principle, chess is solvable, the game s computational complexity is almost incomprehensible.

But one should remember that these problems are only part of the picture and, in principle, they can be solved over the long term.

It would be ridiculous to claim that we know how we make consciousness in our brains, but we certainly can begin to approach the question, and we can begin to see the shape of a solution.

Again, that's one of the themes that I think has come through loud and clear in this conference is Where do we start? How do we start? What do we do to start?

Now let me take you for a moment to what's widely regarded as the world's most difficult conflict, or the most impossible conflict, is the Middle East.

Two fundamental facts have created an apparently insoluble dilemma for the global economy, and have turned countries like Argentina and Greece into victims of an impossible logic. First, debt continually grows second, there is no really satisfactory way of getting rid of it.

First, the loss of the Cold War, and with it imperial and superpower status, has created a deep and so far unresolved crisis in the collective mentality of Russia s political class.

There were disagreements about the approach to the Israeli Palestinian conflict but there was full support for the establishment of two States, Israel and Palestine, living side by side in peace and security.

Diplomats make careers of finding procedural solutions to insoluble dilemmas surely, they hope, there is a conference table with a shape that matches a given strategic configuration.

The US faces serious problems public debt, weak secondary education, and political gridlock, to name just a few.

This requires implementing a fully fledged banking union with a pan European supervisor and a strong regime for banking resolution and deposit insurance as soon as possible.

But specific problems like trade, the military standoff on the Siachen glacier, the territorial border at Sir Creek, and water flows through the Wullar Barrage are certainly amenable to resolution through dialogue.