"To some extent, Rwanda became a victim of the Somalia experience." — Kofi Annan

The Arab Spring reminds me a bit of the decolonisation process where one country gets independence, and everybody else wants it.

Sometimes I walk into a situation and know someone is going to provoke me, and I just simply refuse to be provoked.

We cannot allow situations where leaders threaten war on television or on Twitter.

What governments and people don't realise is that sometimes the collective interest - the international interest - is also the national interest.