In international or national crises, there are always questions of lack of confidence. You have to change the minds of the people in order to get results.

If there is something I would like to do as President of the General Assembly, it is to place more emphasis on the issue of education, which enables a better life for women.

I think I can regard myself as a political decision-maker.

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.

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.

In every European nation, there have been problems in history when the society was too divided.

In Finland we have equal political rights for women and men. We do not regard ourselves according to sex.