When you have difficult issues on the table for discussion, then sometimes for Africa you may have Burundi or Gambia representing them on the Security Council; and then for Latin America you may have a country like Costa Rica, which is a wonderful country but they don't have the same weight as others from the other regions. And sometimes they get bullied. Sometimes their capitals come under lots of pressure to take a position.

Children are our future and if we use them in battle, we are destroying the future. We must reclaim them, every one of them, one at a time.

You need younger men in Africa, men and women in African politics.

Above all else, we need a reaffirmation of political commitment at the highest levels to reducing the dangers that arise both from existing nuclear weapons and from further proliferation.

We must restore the sacredness of the family as a bedrock of humane values everywhere, in peace as well as in war.

Founded on the principles of private initiative, entrepreneurship and self-employment, underpinned by the values of democracy, equality and solidarity, the co-operative movement can help pave the way to a more just and inclusive economic order.

However much one tries to suppress the will of the people they eventually will have the last word.