I feel relieved that we discovered that Iraq did not have nuclear weapons.

The globalization that has swept away the barriers to the movement of goods, ideas and people has also swept with it barriers that confined and localized security threats.

The Germans should be the first to sympathize with us [Egyptians]. They know how difficult it is to build a democracy following a dictatorship, and they were the first to be critical of Morsi's anti-democratic policies.

Iran has the technology to produce the highly enriched uranium, which is not automatically meaning nuclear weapon.

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

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

We still live in a world where if you have nuclear weapons, you are buying power; you are buying insurance against attack.