Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they probably need their armies to intimidate their own pop….

All our efforts to defeat poverty and pursue sustainable development will be in vain if environmental degradation and natural resource depletion cont….

Terrorism constitutes a direct attack on the values the UN stands for: the rule of law; the protection of civilians; peaceful resolution of conflicts….

I observe a lot. I see a lot around me..

We need to promote greater tolerance and understanding among the peoples of the world. Nothing can be more dangerous to our efforts to build peace an….

Gather the five virtues (Dignity, Confidence, Courage, Compassion, and Faith). Then you are a man..

The future belongs to you, but it can only belong to you if you participate and take charge.

To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there..

...there is no tool for development more effective than the empowerment of women..

Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human devel….

We can love what we are, without hating what, and who, we are not..

Let us, above all, be clear that, without a convincing program of debt relief to start the new millennium, our objective of halving world poverty by ….

Over time you get to understand the nature of man and the environments you are dealing with, and you can't always allow emotions and temper to flare ….

We don’t need any more promises. We need to start keeping the promises we already made..

We all make mistakes..

In an age of interdependence, global citizenship - based on trust and sense of shared responsibility - is a crucial pillar of progress. At a time whe….

[Professional accountants ] should be encouraging companies to enhance their green credentials by switching to renewables, and to respect core labor ….

I think the generational change is going to be so important for Africa that we really should encourage and push it as much as we can, because some of….

Remembering is a necessary rebuke to those who say the Holocaust never happened or has been exaggerated..

The U.N. power comes from concerted action of the governments..

If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development..