I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations.

There is no such thing as the United Nations.

If the United Nations does not attempt to chart a course for the world's people in the first decades of the new millennium, who will?

Finland had a civil war less than 100 years ago, just like in Ireland. If you look at the history of newly independent nations, civil war is almost every time present, even in the United States.

I'm a member of the US committee o the United Nations.

One of the biggest development issues in the world is the education of girls. In the United States and Europe, it has been accepted, but not in Africa and the developing countries.