Nelson Mandela stands as an inspiration to us all

Perhaps the single most successful international agreement to date has been the Montreal Protocol.

Reform is a process, and not an event.

We have seen recently, almost every major head of state goes to India and says, we believe India should be in the Council. They go back home and do nothing about it. But this cannot be sustained for long. If they want to keep the UN as a global forum where they discuss incidents and take some meaningful decisions, they should [reform].

Iraq has a new opportunity to comply with all these relevant resolutions of the Security Council.

The Millennium Development Goals can be met by 2015, but only if all involved break with business as usual and dramatically accelerate and scale up action now.

The question is the morning after. What sort of Iraq do we wake up to after the bombing? What happens in the region? What impact could it have? These are questions leaders I have spoken to have posed.