Normally when people resign they will organise their champagne farewell parties... and then they resurface somewhere.

Obama saying Gaddafi must go. Putting it upfront like that... it's not very helpful.

I urge the Iraqi leadership for sake of its own people... to seize this opportunity and thereby begin to end the isolation and suffering of the Iraqi people.

It is not in the United Nations that the Millennium Development Goals will be achieved. They have to be achieved in each of its Member States, by the joint efforts of their governments and people.

We need to ensure the poorest in the planet - who will be hardest hit by the financial crisis - are not forgotten.

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

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.