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.
In Finland we have equal political rights for women and men. We do not regard ourselves according to sex.
We Finns represent a very transparent and open-minded way of reaching political decisions.
Peace enforcement is a much more difficult kind of operation than peacekeeping.
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.
If there is something I would like to do as President of the General Assembly, it is to place more emphasis on the issue of education, which enables a better life for women.