Despite the ethnic diversity within each nation, the social fabric of the region by and large is one.

Everybody knows that the United Nations is not the Secretary-General; he has an important position, but the United Nations is the states within this organization, and to be frank, most of the people say only the five permanent members; this is the United Nations because they have the veto, they can do whatever they want and they can refuse whatever they want, and if there's a reform that is very much needed for this organization.

According to what we've been seeing recently in the area where the terrorists control, where they ban people from going to schools, ban young men from shaving their beards, and women have to be covered from head to toe, and let's say in brief they live the Taliban style in Afghanistan, completely the same style.

The first thing you have to learn is how to conduct dialogue and how to make it productive.

I will tell [Barack Obama] very simply : present what you have as evidence to the public, be transparent.

You cannot import anything from outside your country regarding the future of your country.

The worst loss for any country is not the infrastructure or the buildings or the material loss; actually, it's the human resources loss.