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.

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.

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

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

When the problems in Northern Ireland started, it was not a question of Protestantism or Catholicism, because the Catholic church was the only church at that time-it was a nationalist conflict.

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

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