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
forget personal subject view
Your personal view on the subject is not always so important. To get a decision, you sometimes have to forget your own ideas, your own views.
sex men rights
In Finland we have equal political rights for women and men. We do not regard ourselves according to sex.
decision political way
We Finns represent a very transparent and open-minded way of reaching political decisions.
party succeed rebuilding
Without rebuilding the confidence between parties, you will never succeed.
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.
challenges trying obstacles
There are many challenges, there are many obstacles; let us try to change the obstacles to advantages.
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.
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.
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.
problem has-beens nations
In every European nation, there have been problems in history when the society was too divided.
enforcement kind operations
Peace enforcement is a much more difficult kind of operation than peacekeeping.
certain confidence create political rule rules trust
There are certain rules that are very important in political negotiations. The first rule is to create more trust and confidence between the parties.
accepting cannot further help
Without accepting the other person's thinking, you cannot further your own interest. You need the other's help to get results.
concerned environmental facing grave though urgent
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.