International law now grants rights to all human beings, not only to citizens.

No one is born a good citizen; no nation is born a democracy. Rather, both are processes that continue to evolve over a lifetime. Young people must be included from birth. A society that cuts off from its youth severs its lifeline.

Generals often find a way of dealing with generals on the officer-to-officer level. In the hierarchy of the military and with the almost similar structure and similar language, they find a way of dealing with each other.

Peace is never a perfect achievement.

Iraq has a new opportunity to comply with all these relevant resolutions of the Security Council.

Extreme poverty anywhere is a threat to human security everywhere.

Sometimes in peacekeeping operations you show force in order not to use force - people realise that there's a pushback and there's a solid force there that's not going to be pushed around, that sometimes helps.