Unlike South Africa, which decided on its own to eliminate its nuclear weapons and welcomed inspection as a means of creating confidence in its disarmament, Iraq appears not to have come to a genuine acceptance - not even today - of the disarmament, which was demanded of it and which it needs to carry out to win the confidence of the world and to live in peace.

By and large my relations with the US were good.

I did not think so at first. But the US is so incredibly dependent on oil, that they wanted to secure oil in case competition on the world market becomes too hard.

Like I said, I'm more worried long term about the environmental issues then the use of arms.

The U.N. is much more than the case of Iraq.

International cooperation, multilateralism is indispensable.

The world has gotten so interwoven.