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.

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

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.

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

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.

If you come to a negotiation table saying you have the final truth, that you know nothing but the truth and that is final, you will get nothing.