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
very concerned about the military build-up and expressed his readiness for dialogue.
The people and government of Pakistan are faced with an extraordinary challenge and we need to make an extraordinary effort to support them, ... What is needed is an immediate and exceptional escalation of the global relief effort to support the work of the government of Pakistan.
the overall epidemic continues to expand with much of the world at risk of falling short of the targets set forth in the declaration.
The president has been asking me for the last three years to come, I am happy to be among you.
We have not yet achieved the sweeping and fundamental reform that I and many others believe is required.
There are now 11 women heads of state or government, in countries on every continent. And three countries -- Chile, Spain and Sweden -- now have gender parity in government.
There are no winners, and there are no losers today, ... This moment heralds the opportunity for all East Timorese to begin to forge together a common future in what is to become an independent East Timor.
There are a lot of people who have come here to work here to tackle the food crisis,
We need to be able to work to resolve it, and I hope there will be no steps taken to escalate the situation.
We've shared with them where we stand, what we hope to do next and explained to them the state of play,
We would have preferred a stronger language in some parts of the text,
we wouldn't be here now but we are caught in a stalemate.
We will ... develop measures to reinforce formal protection for whistle-blowers, ... I want to stress that I am fully committed to addressing the concerns that all of you have identified in this survey.