I wish to do all I can to encourage the leaders to muster the spirit of compromise, courage and leadership, which they are capable of,

I have always believed that on important issues, the leaders must lead. Where the leaders fail to lead, and people are really concerned about it, the people will take the lead and make the leaders follow.

I urge the Iraqi leadership for sake of its own people... to seize this opportunity and thereby begin to end the isolation and suffering of the Iraqi people.

Great leaders are pragmatists who can deal with difficult realities but still have the optimism and courage to act.

If we don't all have the spirit of compromise, ... then we shall lose the momentum, we shall lose the spirit of coming out with a document that unites the United Nations and unites all of us.

In the spirit of compromise.