Men and women have roles - their roles are different, but their rights are equal.
In Finland, we learned quite a lot from our own civil war. The wounds were visible when I was a boy, but my generation went into the Second World War and it united the Finnish nation, so I do not see any more wounds.
Discussion is just a tool. You have to aim; the final goal must be a decision.
There are big issues, like the reform of the Security Council. These kinds of questions are something the President of the General Assembly must keep his eye on.
If you come to a negotiation table saying you have the final truth, that you know nothing but the truth and that is final, you will get nothing.
What we can do as individuals may not be very much on the global scale, but we have to start the change by living as we are teaching.
You cannot make easy decisions unless you first commit yourself to hard solutions.
In every European nation, there have been problems in history when the society was too divided.
I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the poverty question.
Peace enforcement is a much more difficult kind of operation than peacekeeping.
I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations.
There are many challenges, there are many obstacles; let us try to change the obstacles to advantages.
We Finns represent a very transparent and open-minded way of reaching political decisions.
I think I can regard myself as a political decision-maker.
In international or national crises, there are always questions of lack of confidence. You have to change the minds of the people in order to get results.
Without rebuilding the confidence between parties, you will never succeed.
We have the tools, but we have to learn how to use them. That is my political philosophy.
My opinion on who's wrong or who's right has nothing to do with the fact that we have to bring together people who are against each other, to transform antagonism into cooperation.
That is where consensus-building begins-with the idea that you have your own truth, but that the negotiator on the other side of the table has his own truth as well.
Without accepting the other person's thinking, you cannot further your own interest. You need the other's help to get results.
