Justice and peace can only thrive together, never apart.

We are calling on countries that supply weapons to comply with certain restrictions: not to sell weapons to human rights abusers, not to sell them to governments or groups carrying out aggression against states, not to make weapons sales that could disrupt security or development in the receiving region. These are in many ways common sense principles, but sadly, there seems to be very little common sense in the international arms trade.

The existence of nuclear weapons presents a clear and present danger to life on Earth.

Nuclear arms kill many people all at once, but other weapons kill many people, little by little, every day, everywhere in the world.

The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.

It is essential that justice be done, and it is equally vital that justice not be confused with revenge, for the two are wholly different.

My country is a country of teachers. It is therefore a country of peace. We discuss our successes and failures in complete freedom. Because our country is a country of teachers, we closed the army camps, and our children go about with books under their arms, not with rifles on their shoulders. We believe in dialogue, in agreement, in reaching a consensus.