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In every European nation, there have been problems in history when the society was too divided.
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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.
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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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We Finns represent a very transparent and open-minded way of reaching political decisions.
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That is where consensus-building begins-with the idea that you have your own truth, but that the negotiator on the other side of the table has his own truth as well.
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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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You cannot make easy decisions unless you first commit yourself to hard solutions.
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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.
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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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When my first child was born in 1962, I wrote a letter to my grandfather telling him how happy I was but how concerned; concerned because there were so many visions which were not very good.
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My opinion on who's wrong or who's right has nothing to do with the fact that we have to bring together people who are against each other, to transform antagonism into cooperation.
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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.
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There are many challenges, there are many obstacles; let us try to change the obstacles to advantages.
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Peace enforcement is a much more difficult kind of operation than peacekeeping.
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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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