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.

UN is made even more complex by the constant interplay of politics and bureaucracy and can certainly be bewildering for a novice.

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

The right to development is the measure of the respect of all other human rights.That should be our aim: a situation in which all individuals are enabled to maximize their potential, and to contribute to the evolution of society as a whole.

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

To live is to choose.

To go to war without the Security Council will not be in conformity with the Council.