Like any large organisation, public or private, the UN is a complex machine.

We must ensure that the global market is embedded in broadly shared values and practices that reflect global social needs, and that all the world's people share the benefits of globalization.

Today, no walls can separate humanitarian or human rights crises in one part of the world from national security crises in another. What begins with the failure to uphold the dignity of one life all too often ends with a calamity for entire nations.

There is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole - women and men alike - than the one which involves women as central players.

If we are to make poverty history, we must have the active participation of States, civil society and the private sector, as well as individual volunteers.

As I travel around the world, people think the only place where there is potential conflict [over] water is the Middle East, but they are completely wrong. We have the problem all over the world.

We at the U.N. have to take some of the blame, because we have not lowered expectations creating the impression we are here to save people, even when we have very limited resources.