Without rebuilding the confidence between parties, you will never succeed.

If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind.

Peace enforcement is a much more difficult kind of operation than peacekeeping.

That is where consensus-building begins-with the idea that you have your own truth, but that the negotiator on the other side of the table has his own truth as well.

There are many challenges, there are many obstacles; let us try to change the obstacles to advantages.

There are big issues, like the reform of the Security Council. These kinds of questions are something the President of the General Assembly must keep his eye on.

I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the poverty question.