I know the situation of the Commonwealth generally, and I know that the aim should be to make the Commonwealth much more relevant to the poorer countries.

Any organisation has a future, provided it is properly led and it sticks to the objective of that organisation.

The UN is hardly democratic.

We need an opposition to remind us if we are making mistakes. When you are not opposed you think everything you do is right.

The Commonwealth is a mixture of developing and developed world, in which the developed countries were very influential and their policies hold sway most of the time.

When you have elections in which 90% or 95% or 99% of those elected come from one party, then I think there is some fraudulent act.

If you know each other well, you want to do business with people you know well. You don't do business with strangers.