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

Like any large organisation, public or private, the UN is a complex machine.

Let us be good stewards of the Earth we inherited. All of us have to share the Earth's fragile ecosystems and precious resources, and each of us has a role to play in preserving them. If we are to go on living together on this earth, we must all be responsible for it.

The Security Council should be seen as the executive committee of the global security system set up after World War II. Its members, and especially the Permanent 5 (P5), have a special responsibility for international peace and security.

Usually, when you look around the world, people are killing each other, fighting over scarce resources.

In the rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear.

Can the state, which represents the whole of society and has the duty of protecting society, fulfill that duty by lowering itself to the level of the murderer, and treating him as he treated others? The forfeiture of life is too absolute, too irreversible, for one human being to inflict it on another, even when backed by legal process.