The issue of poverty is not a statistical issue. It is a human issue.

The first thing that you need to deal with is the issue of equity and poverty.

First of all, the people left, and they're now coming back. What we have to do is try and help them regain their lives, and the cause of the need for the immediate money is to establish some system of government. You must remember that Kosovo was never self-standing, and so we have to create that government structure, and that's, in fact, what Bernard Kushner is doing on behalf of the secretary-general.

I was deeply concerned then, and have become more concerned since, that unless we can deal with the questions of development and the questions of poverty, there's no way that we're going to have a peaceful world for our children.

I think that's one of the reasons for the Sarajevo conference, that Yugoslavia, Serbia, return to the family of nations because enduring peace can only come when you have Serbia within that framework.

The notion of the world as a village is becoming a reality.

So the first thing you need to do about conflict is to prevent it, and the best way of preventing it is by dealing with the question of poverty.