Afghanistan is one of the poorest countries on earth. Security issue or no security issue, there would need to be a focus on it.

I think the issue of North Korea is one where the international community as a whole has to work to resolve the crisis.

We need a lot of thinking and ideas. We need all the innovators, particularly with the new sustainable technologies - how do we get them to affordability so that people can generate clean energy?

People are optimistic about the future.

Any serious shift towards more sustainable societies has to include gender equality.

As New Zealanders, we've been in on the United Nations from the very beginning, played a role in the drafting of the charter - it means a lot to us that those processes are followed.

New Zealand and SA should take this dimension into account, the skills South Africans are presently contributing to New Zealand.