It's always a difficult time to be secretary general.

International law now grants rights to all human beings, not only to citizens.

National markets are held together by shared values and confidence in certain minimum standards. But in the new global market, people do not yet have that confidence.

You have made people listen. You have made people care, and you have taught us that whether we are poor or prosperous, we have only one world to share. You have taught young people that they do have the power to change the world.

One has to learn from history. Quite frankly, it is almost impossible to have a sense of vision without a sense of history. If history is learned, then it doesn't have to repeat itself over generations.

I think that peacekeeping can do quite a lot, if they are given the right mandate with the commensurate resources to get the job done.

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.