We are assuming that our societies are going to be based on mistrust.

We believe it is the primary and primordial responsibility of each State to protect its population and for that reason we fully support the concept of the responsibility to protect.

And when that doesn't work, when it turns out that people who disagree with us have all the same facts we do and are actually pretty smart, then we move on to a third assumption they know the truth, and they are deliberately distorting it for their own malevolent purposes.

We stress the need to continue consideration within the General Assembly of the concept of the responsibility to protect.

How was I to write about ISIS for others, for people who have not suffered the same amount of violence and chaos? And what responsibility do we as Syrians carry, compared to the rest of the world, for creating ISIS?

We all share the same responsibility to advance work in the disarmament machinery, as we all face the same threats and challenges.

Of course, some of the recommendations made in the report must be further elaborated on, and that responsibility falls to us, the Member States.

We are nevertheless convinced that the main responsibility for finding a political solution to the Afghan issue lies with the Afghan people themselves.

We agree that the responsibility to protect civilian populations lies first and foremost with each individual State.

First, it has to be assumed that individuals prefer to avoid risk.

Amazon webhosting dropped Wikileaks as a customer after receiving a complaint from U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman, despite the fact that Wikileaks had not been charged, let alone convicted, So we assume that the Internet is a border busting technology.

Thirdly, we have a responsibility ourselves to provide ideas and good practices, not only to ask for reports and proposals from others.

But this assumes that our income relative to the income of others does not matter.

Let s assume, I said next, that Nicholas and John own two small firms that compete with each other.

So presumably he has a constructive vision for the Bank s future.

To illustrate, suppose that this reduction in the value of the pound is 5 .

We need not assume that these goals cannot be pursued simultaneously.

We can no longer presume that its institutional arrangements reflect its citizens preferences.

Nevertheless, we should not take a positive outcome of the review as a foregone conclusion, nor should we assume that the subsequent launch of a final status process will be automatic.

First, with respect to the mobilization of domestic financial resources for development, we recognize the primary responsibility that Member States have for promoting growth and development.

But assume that China does revalue its currency sharply, by, say, 40 .

The concepts of intelligence and of race are less clear cut than we often assume them to be.

So by the time you are nine years old, you've already learned, first of all, that people who get stuff wrong are lazy, irresponsible dimwits and second of all, that the way to succeed in life is to never make any mistakes.

We reaffirm that Member States have conferred on the Security Council primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security, acting on their behalf, as provided by the Charter.

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One can assume that next year s total spending on military affairs will be even bigger.

But it is neither useful nor very plausible to assume that Kim Jong un and his military advisers are mad.

But it would be most imprudent to assume that the turning point is right now, and that things are as bad as they will get.

To them, one can only assume, the debates are nothing more than a personality contest.

It would be rash to assume that the outcome in Russia would be as benign as Ukraine s Orange Revolution.

Both will depend on the outcome of the review, and that outcome is in the hands of Kosovo's leaders, who should continue their progress in implementing the standards.

Individual responsibility

Financial responsibility

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One would assume that Obama would prove even more unsettling to bin Laden.

On the contrary, it would be a grave mistake to assume that fanatical Islamism fully defines Saudi attitudes toward religion.

Suppose it was divided into independent political units of two million people each.

In the rich world, when a mother dies giving birth, we assume that something went wrong.

It is therefore inaccurate to assume China changed suddenly and all at once in the year 1644.

It would be dangerous to assume that after Tunisia, democracy in the Arab world is just around the corner.

Yet it would be a grave mistake to assume that the ECB can deliver lasting economic peace.

Of course, relaxed and happy people can still become depressed, and stressed and unhappy people may not be depressed, but it is a reasonable hypothesis that happier people are less likely to become depressed.

We all agree that the primary task of the Tribunals is to bring to justice the most senior leaders suspected of being most responsible (resolution 1503 (2003), seventh preambular para.

The responsibility weighs on me.