What we can do as individuals may not be very much on the global scale, but we have to start the change by living as we are teaching.

My opinion on who's wrong or who's right has nothing to do with the fact that we have to bring together people who are against each other, to transform antagonism into cooperation.

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

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.

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.

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

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.