After the end of the cold war, everybody thought, fantastic, finally the UN may be able to do what it was originally set up to do without big power divisions. It would be easy to get them to come together to resolve things. You will recall, on the first Gulf war, you almost got a unanimous resolution and a very solid coalition.

We have to choose between a global market driven only by calculations of short-term profit, and one which has a human face.

literacy is at the heart of sustainable development

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

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

Globalization is a fact of life. But I believe we have underestimated its fragility.

You have to wake up every day ready to start again.