I have, as you know, the utmost respect for President Obama as a person.

I am an Egyptian Muslim, educated in Cairo and New York, and now living in Vienna. My wife and I have spent half our lives in the North, half in the South. And we have experienced first hand the unique nature of the human family and the common values we all share.

It would be, in fact, very ominous if Iraq were to be able to get weapon-usable material, hydro-plutonium or highly enriched uranium from abroad.

Barack Obama has injected fresh momentum into efforts - stalled for a decade - to bring about nuclear disarmament.

If I could have just 1 per cent of the money spent on global armaments, no one in this world would go to bed hungry.

The dream of democracy has long been enshrined in the hearts of the Egyptian people. It only needed awakening.

I think one country with nuclear weapons is one country too many.