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Labour Party Conference: David Miliband speech; There is a unique international consensus on the terms of what has to be negotiated. Borders based on the line of 1967, resolving the issue of illegal Israeli settlements. Both states designating Jerusalem as their capital city. Security guarantees for Israel. Fair compensation for Palestinian refugees. The Arab world not just recognising but normalising relations with Israel. Conference, there would be no more historic achievement a re-elected Labour government to be the first country to open two Embassies in a shared Jerusalem, democratic Palestine and democratic Jewish Israel, living side by side in peace. The starting point of our politics is that all men and women are created equal. So I am proud that we have helped Pakistan and Bangladesh elect civilian governments, return to democracy, one person one vote, and I pledge that we will not rest until we have done the same for Zimbabwe... and Burma as well.And in those democracies, like Sri Lanka, where civil war claimed lives and liberty, we say governments have a duty to uphold the civil, social and political rights of all their citizens, whatever their ethnicity or religion. We also know that for too many people in our world, equality is a dream. We remember with shame that in 1997, there was no Department for International Development. The aid budget was falling. So we are proud that in the field of international development the UK is not a leader but the leader.