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Below is Gordon Brown’s speech on foreign policy, delivered at the Lord Mayor’s Banquet. (Transcript via Number10.gov.uk):

My Lord Mayor, my late Lord Mayor, your grace, my Lord Chancellor, your excellencies, my Lords, Aldermen, Sheriffs, Chief Commoner, ladies and gentlemen.

We live in no ordinary times.

• A year into dealing with the greatest economic challenge for generations – the first global financial recession.
• A few weeks before the most important climate change decisions in human history.
• A few months ahead of nuclear negotiations that could for the first time genuinely bind the world to cooperate and not proliferate.
• And we meet just as America and NATO are making vital choices about how to continue and win the fight against global terrorism.

These are the four great issues of our time, and what they have in common is that – global in nature – they require global solutions. None can be answered by one country or one continent in isolation.

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