Harri Holkeri Quotes

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Harri Holkeri

Profession : Politician

Birth : January 6, 1937

Peace enforcement is a much more difficult kind of operation than peacekeeping.

Harri Holkeri

In Finland we have equal political rights for women and men. We do not regard ourselves according to sex.

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.

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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.

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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

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.

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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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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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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