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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Men and women have roles - their roles are different, but their rights are equal.

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