Developing countries like Malaysia should have a say in changing the world financial system since we have faced the problems that it has caused.

Currency trading is unnecessary, unproductive and totally immoral. It should be stopped.

Even in South Africa, the Commonwealth were not doing anything, and their attitude was to tolerate apartheid in South Africa. There was a lot of lip service being paid to the need to stop this practice, but nothing was done.

No one should have extra influence on an organisation. We should always regard ourselves as equals in the organisation, and we should be concerned about each other's problems.

Malaysians, during the colonial period, were not given the top positions: we were always subordinate. Fortunately for us, the people who took over were mainly civil servants: people who were serving the Government.

The UN is hardly democratic.

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