Kofi Annan
Kofi Annan
Kofi Atta Annanis a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations from January 1997 to December 2006. Annan and the United Nations were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize "for their work for a better organized and more peaceful world." He is the founder and the Chairman of the Kofi Annan Foundation, as well as being the chairman of The Elders, a group founded by Nelson Mandela...
NationalityGhanaian
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth8 April 1938
CityKumasi, Ghana
CountryGhana
will maintain a safe and secure environment, to enable them to cast their votes without fear of intimidation or violence.
will make every effort by conducting an impartial inquiry with a view to bringing to justice those responsible.
We need helicopters, trucks, heavy lifting equipment, shelter and health care, ... We need tarpaulins, ground sheets and stoves. We need water and sanitation equipment. We need food supplies.
We need to find a way of getting everybody to talk,
We need to decide our priorities. And we must adapt our United Nations so that in the future, those priorities are reflected in clear and prompt decisions leading to real change in people's lives. That my friend is what the people expect of us -- let us not disappoint them.
We have a lot of issues on the agenda to discuss and I'm looking forward to the meeting. We will of course discuss the Iranian issue, the situation in Iraq, the Middle East... I would not be surprised if the issue of the cartoons comes up.
We must not promise too much or raise expectations higher than are justified by the will of governments to act, but we must do whatever we can to raise the standards of international behavior and responsibility. I think we can only hope to succeed in that if we have a very clear idea of what was wrong up to now.
We must now turn to the next stages in the reform process,
We must redouble our efforts in working toward a world free of nuclear dangers, and ultimately, of nuclear weapons,
We must resolve, even more firmly, to build nations within which people of different communities can coexist, and enjoy equal rights,
We have made it clear that it does not go around encouraging abortions, ... It does give good advice to women in the area of reproductive health and does very good work around the world, including in China.
We have come to a fork in the road.
We all have our respective positions. The U.N. still recognizes Chairman Arafat and we will continue to deal with him.
were supposed to use force only in self-defense, or by a collective decision that it was necessary to use force in order to keep the peace.