The interesting thing is, everybody focuses on the global warming as an environmental issue, as something outside our daily lives. But actually the impact of global warming is with us today. Communities are suffering. Communities in poor countries are the ones paying the price, they are not the ones who are polluting, and we need to help them adapt.

You can do a lot with diplomacy, but with diplomacy backed up by force you can get a lot more done.

We have to be very clear with the population and the countries we enter what we can do and what we cannot do.

Often, we take stability - peace in terms of security and economic activity - to mean a country is doing well. We forget the third and important pillar of rule of law and respect for human rights, because no country can long remain prosperous without that third pillar.

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

You may have noticed over the years that the UN became a bit more media-friendly, a bit more open to the media than in the past.

Some have suggested that ideally there must be some international body that would treat areas like the Arctic as a global commerce, a bit like the way we treat the sea. It doesn't belong to any particular country, but to all of us, but I'm not sure some of the powerful are ready for that sort of solution.