Fierce national competition over water resources has prompted fears that water issues contain the seeds of violent conflict.

If you are neutral in a situation where one side is patently being mistreated, the conclusion is that you're siding with this wrong.

Change is a process which has to be managed. If it's managed and managed well in the interest of the nation and the people, the likelihood is that it will end well.

The number one goal in resolving a conflict is to make sure both sides maintain their self-esteem. You don't hit a man on the head when you've got your fingers between his teeth.

Today, no walls can separate humanitarian or human rights crises in one part of the world from national security crises in another. What begins with the failure to uphold the dignity of one life all too often ends with a calamity for entire nations.

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

We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.