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“During the next 10 years about 1.2 billion young 15-to-30-year-olds will be entering the job market and with the means now at our disposal about 300 million will get a job. What will we offer these young, about a billion of them? — or will we leave them to be recruited by criminal leagues and terrorists? … I think this is one of the greatest challenges if we want to achieve peaceful development and hope for these young.”

“It's very important to be able to act properly. You need financing, and you never have enough.”

“You have to be rather straightforward with your clients. You can't tell the parties only nice things. This is not an entertainment show; it's not reality television either.”

“Global troubleshooter Ahtisaari wins Nobel Peace Prize" in Agence France-Presse report”

“Since I know that about a million people have been killed by the government of Iraq, I do not need much those weapons of mass destruction.”

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