The Baltic Sea is becoming more and more polluted. Not everybody living near the shore of the Baltic Sea is protecting it. It is the water of life for countries like Finland and Sweden.

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.

I never was on the dull, tame shore, But I loved the great sea more and more.

Peace enforcement is a much more difficult kind of operation than peacekeeping.

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.