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It is fair to say that Africa has become a major force in moving the world towards multi-polarity, an important emerging market that helps promote global economic recovery and integration, and an outstanding representative of diverse civilizations in the world.

A multi-polar world can not exist without recognising the status and participation of developing countries.

An increasingly multipolar world requires an entirely different kind of U.S. foreign policy: far from being unilateralist, it necessitates a complex form of power-sharing on both a global and regional basis.

There's peacetime and there's wartime, and you don't need polarization on wartime issues. You need polarization on all other issues.

There is too much at stake for us to surrender to the politics of polarization.

In the long march of history, at least two poles of attraction and antagonism have been the norm in world politics. Rarely has only one nation carried the burden of leadership. The unipolar world of the 21st century, dominated for the past two decades by the United States, is a historical anomaly.

There are differences in the world community. But we have a common interest in a strong multilateral system.

Where issues used to be, say, parochial or local in Ireland or England and so forth, all politics is global now because all business is global.

In a multipolar world, there must be more powers capable of taking responsibility, the U.S. and Europe must be able to unite to achieve peace in the Middle East.