In fact UN is more of a galaxy of organisations and agencies than one machine.

We will not enjoy security without development, we will not enjoy development without security, and we will not enjoy either without respect for human rights.

It's always a difficult time to be secretary general.

We need to think of the future and the planet we are going to leave to our children and their children.

If the United Nations does not attempt to chart a course for the world's people in the first decades of the new millennium, who will?

Education is a human right with immense power to transform

More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development.