There are many challenges, there are many obstacles; let us try to change the obstacles to advantages.
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In Finland we have equal political rights for women and men. We do not regard ourselves according to sex.
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Without accepting the other person's thinking, you cannot further your own interest. You need the other's help to get results.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind.
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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.
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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.
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I think we have grave problems. I am very much concerned about environmental questions, even though in Finnish society, we are not facing the most urgent problems.
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