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Harri Holkeri

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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. - Harri Holkeri
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Discussion is just a tool. You have to aim; the final goal must be a decision. - Harri Holkeri
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I think I can regard myself as a political decision-maker. - Harri Holkeri
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We Finns represent a very transparent and open-minded way of reaching political decisions. - Harri Holkeri
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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. - Harri Holkeri
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I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations. - Harri Holkeri
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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. - Harri Holkeri
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I recently reread an article of mine written in 1964, and I think it is still valid. There is not much difference. Many of the items on the agenda 37 years ago are still there. - Harri Holkeri
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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. - Harri Holkeri
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You cannot make easy decisions unless you first commit yourself to hard solutions. - Harri Holkeri
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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. - Harri Holkeri
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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. - Harri Holkeri
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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. - Harri Holkeri
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#Education
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#Poverty
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There are many challenges, there are many obstacles; let us try to change the obstacles to advantages. - Harri Holkeri
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#Change
#Obstacles
#Try
#Us
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. - Harri Holkeri
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Men and women have roles - their roles are different, but their rights are equal. - Harri Holkeri
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