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.

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.

There are many challenges, there are many obstacles; let us try to change the obstacles to advantages.

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

We Finns represent a very transparent and open-minded way of reaching political decisions.

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.