"We must share our concerns with the world, for there are more than enough reasons to be concerned. We must ask people to imagine what a nuclear weapon is like in the hands of terrorists or rogue states. It is that simple! Just imagine that Hitler had had an atomic bomb and try to speculate what could have happened to humankind! That would be a burnt sacrifice that would threaten the entire humankind!"

"We need serious commitments on nuclear disarmament, with clear milestones and accountability. We need an effective approach for dealing with proliferation threats. We need to develop a multinational approach to the nuclear fuel cycle. We need a universally robust verification system. We need an effective system for the security of nuclear material. And above all, we need to start serious work towards a new collective security paradigm. If we want to prevent a nuclear catastrophe, the deadline for action is now".

"In order to identify the measures that the international community should promote today to improve security and strengthen non-proliferation internationally, we need to realize what is so different about the situation today. The very challenge of non-proliferation safeguards has been with us for as long as the nuclear weapons have been".

"Questions about the need for nuclear weapons still seem to be often discussed in the same way now as when the states of the world were less integrated and less interdependent than they are today, at a time when strategic thinking, strategies, preemption and trials dominated the discussion. I think it is time that we more fully recognize the good reality that inter-state wars are becoming rarer."

"The most important approach to preventing the dangerous proliferation of nuclear weapons and materials is an expansion of Global Partnership programs aimed at ensuring the maximum safeguarding of fissionable materials at all stages of the life cycle and providing for complex recycling of weapons-grade plutonium, nuclear submarines and missiles of various classes."

"The security concerns of all states in politically sensitive areas should be respected and addressed. We now begin to rediscover what the immediate postwar generation was painfully aware of, namely that a nuclear catastrophe can become a reality. Therefore the goal set by the NPT of a Nuclear Weapon-free world should no longer be a distant one."