literacy is at the heart of sustainable development

No one is born a good citizen or a good democrat or a good leader; it takes time and education.

We can love what we are, without hating what, and who, we are not.

The problem is this. The spread of markets outpaces the ability of societies and their political systems to adjust to them, let alone to guide the course they take

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.

To build a more healthy, peaceful and equitable world the classrooms of the world have to be full of girls as well as boys.

Let us, above all, be clear that, without a convincing program of debt relief to start the new millennium, our objective of halving world poverty by 2015 will be only a pipe dream.