International cooperation is in our self interest and needs to be mustered.

What brings us together is that we have common interests which transcend those differences.

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Accordingly, we should aspire to a community that exists to serve our common interest and respects the views of member nations.

We allowed convenient cultural stereotyping to sustain what we believed was the expedient pursuit of our national interest.

In the interests of our common security, we must not forsake that legacy.

Peace, stability and security can only be achieved through tolerance, acceptance and the realization that our common interests far outweigh our differences.

They flee from war, violence and terror or they flee from economic hardship, which often results from our own consumer behavior or geostrategic interests.

The fact that we debate such questions passionately suggests that we all have varying conceptions of where self interest lies.

Prosperity and growth, security and stability, and the long term sustainability of our societies require the promotion of our interests and values abroad, and engagement with external threats and global challenges.

All of us here representatives are national leaders. In today's world, we cannot serve our own interests well unless we rise above narrow national interests.

So everywhere we look, pretty much across the board, we worry that the people we depend on don't really have our interests at heart.

So what we really need to do is regain the idea that it's our government safeguarding our interests and regain a sense of unity and common cause in our country that really has been lost.

2 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Our Common Interest Report of the Commission for Africa (London, March 2005).

I would like to conclude by saying that we must have the courage to go beyond our narrow national security interests in order to enhance the international system which will be providing security for all.

The fact that we debate such questions passionately suggests that we all have varying conceptions of where self interest lies. Our interests are in fact hostage to our ideas.

We believe that Georgia should pursue its own interests, which it may share with Europe, Russia, or the US, but which are nonetheless our own.

Or perhaps we are hoping that the we whose interests are taken into account when important decisions are made will not be the we who are among the big losers.

Focusing political attention on the Conference on Disarmament's deadlock and its negative consequences for our individual and collective security interests is one way to get us out of the rut we are in.

If we all think only of our own interests, we are headed for collective disaster just look at what we are doing to our planet s climate.

There are ways to define our interests in which, while protecting ourselves with hard power, we can organize with others in networks to produce, not only public goods, but ways that will enhance our soft power.

Third, the US Japan alliance will have to face a new set of transnational challenges to our vital interests, such as pandemics, terrorism, and human outflows from failed states.

The trouble began at the end of the Cold War, when the collapse of a bankrupt communist ideology was complacently interpreted as the triumph of the market. As communism was discarded, so was the concept of the state as an agent around which our collective interests and ambitions could be organized.

The global processes that have brought into sharp focus how inextricably intertwined our common interests are has at the same time served to highlight the stark differences that inform the national and group positions among and within geographic, economic and political blocs.

In a speech on September 18 at the Royal United Services Institute in London, NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer argued that, despite differences over Georgia, Russia and the alliance should cooperate wherever our interests converge.

In this and other matters, Turkey strives to act as a virtuous power, which requires us to align our national interests with values such as justice, democracy, and human dignity, and to achieve our foreign policy goals through mutual cooperation rather than coercion.

In that context, Africa has initiated, through the follow up mechanism established by its leaders in Sirte, a series of meetings and consultations with all regional and political groupings, as well as other stakeholders, with the objective of expanding the basis for an inclusive agreement that would meet all of our interests, without exception.

If we all think only of our own interests, we are headed for collective disaster just look at what we are doing to our planet s climate. When it comes to raising our children, we need fewer tigers and more elephants.

A little more sharp eyed honesty about Britain s real weight in the post war world might have enabled us British to play a more central role in Europe s affairs, molding the emerging European Union more closely to our own national interests.

The desire to help others without consideration for ourselves is not just a noble ideal. Selflessness raises the quality and elevates the meaning of our lives, and that of our descendants in fact, our very survival may even depend on it.