Harri Holkeri
Harri Holkeri
Harri Hermanni Holkeri 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...
NationalityFinnish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth6 January 1937
CountryFinland
thinking giving want
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.
war independent years
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.
men rights roles
Men and women have roles - their roles are different, but their rights are equal.
giving millennium united-nations
I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations.
order people mind
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.
country sea water-of-life
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.
eye issues president
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.
children grandfather vision
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.
girl country europe
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.
catholic church conflict
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.
teaching may individual
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.
challenges trying obstacles
There are many challenges, there are many obstacles; let us try to change the obstacles to advantages.
consensus-building ideas tables
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.
party succeed rebuilding
Without rebuilding the confidence between parties, you will never succeed.