My own advice to people who would be in office for two or three terms is that they must accept democratic rotation. Ideally not put themselves up for re-election and allow the system to work.

The United Nations is proud to have the Adopt-A-Minefield Campaign as a partner.

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.

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating.

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.

Elections with integrity are a challenge everywhere, including in the West.

We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.