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

Harri Holkeri

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

Tags: change

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.

Harri Holkeri

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.

Tags: education

About Author
Harri Hermanni Holkeri (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈhɑrːi ˈhermɑnːi ˈholkeri]; 6 January 1937 – 7 August 2011) was a Finnish statesman representing the National Coalition Party of Finland (Kokoomus / Samlingspartiet). He was the Prime Minister of Finland 1987–1991, president of the UN General Assembly 2000–2001 and headed the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo from 2003 to 2004 (leaving the position in the summer of the second year because of health issues).

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.

Harri Holkeri

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.

Tags: education

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

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.

Tags: education, poverty, speak, control

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

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.

Tags: environmental, i am, society, problems

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

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.

Tags: know, you, saying

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.

Harri Holkeri

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.

Tags: start, living, may