As we move forward, you cannot resolve the potential food crisis or shortages without science being part of the solution. Science has to be part of the solution but African governments - and these are decisions for governments, whether they embrace or do not embrace genetically modified food - and for the moment, most African companies do not accept genetically modified seeds.

Business cannot prosper in societies that fail.

The United Nations, whose membership comprises almost all the States in the world, is founded on the principle of the equal worth of every human being.

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

We must restore the sacredness of the family as a bedrock of humane values everywhere, in peace as well as in war.

More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations.

Some have suggested that ideally there must be some international body that would treat areas like the Arctic as a global commerce, a bit like the way we treat the sea. It doesn't belong to any particular country, but to all of us, but I'm not sure some of the powerful are ready for that sort of solution.