Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community.

You have made people listen. You have made people care, and you have taught us that whether we are poor or prosperous, we have only one world to share. You have taught young people that they do have the power to change the world.

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

You are never too young to lead and you should never doubt your capacity to triumph where others have not.

Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.

I think that these flows of refugee are the inevitable counterparts to the flow of capital and goods. In other words, they too are by-products of globalisation.

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