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.

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

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

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.

The Baltic Sea is becoming more and more polluted. Not everybody living near the shore of the Baltic Sea is protecting it. It is the water of life for countries like Finland and Sweden.

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

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