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.

What we need to do is increase the totality of money that is given to the poorest areas and then we can do more on prevention but we have crucial needs at the moment just to get people out of poverty and to get the eight hundred million people that go to bed at night hungry, give them some food and some hope.

Too many of the conflicts which are caused today are caused by the problems that emerge from people who are in poverty.

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.

Ownership is a sine qua non of sustainable development.

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

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