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Harri Holkeri [1937-0] Finnish

Rank: 102
Politician, Finnish statesman

Harri Hermanni Holkeri KBE was a Finnish statesman representing the National Coalition Party of Finland. He was the Prime Minister of Finland 1987–1991, speaker of the UN General Assembly 2000–2001 and headed the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo from 2003- 2004.

Education, Environmental, Peace, Truth

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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.	Truth	101
Peace enforcement is a much more difficult kind of operation than peacekeeping.	Peace	102
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.	Education	103
Without accepting the other person's thinking, you cannot further your own interest. You need the other's help to get results.		104
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.		105
Men and women have roles - their roles are different, but their rights are equal.		106
When the problems in Northern Ireland started, it was not a question of Protestantism or Catholicism, because the Catholic church was the only church at that time-it was a nationalist conflict.		107
There are many challenges, there are many obstacles; let us try to change the obstacles to advantages.		108
Without rebuilding the confidence between parties, you will never succeed.		109
Discussion is just a tool. You have to aim; the final goal must be a decision.		110
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.		111
We have the tools, but we have to learn how to use them. That is my political philosophy.		112
In Finland we have equal political rights for women and men. We do not regard ourselves according to sex.		113
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.		114
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.		115
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.		116
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.		117
You cannot make easy decisions unless you first commit yourself to hard solutions.		118
I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations.		119
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.		120
We Finns represent a very transparent and open-minded way of reaching political decisions.		121
I think I can regard myself as a political decision-maker.		122
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.		123
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.		124
In every European nation, there have been problems in history when the society was too divided.		125
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.		126
If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind.		201
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.		202
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.		203
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.	Environmental	204

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