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.

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.

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

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.

One of the biggest development issues in the world is the education of girls. In the United States and Europe, it has been accepted, but not in Africa and the developing countries.

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

We Finns represent a very transparent and open-minded way of reaching political decisions.