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
History will judge them harshly and their people will not absolve them, if they fail.
This is where it all began, ... This is where people first came together and said, 'We have to stand up and assert our independence, our uniqueness, our freedom and our dignity.'
As we move forward into the future, the role of the United Nations in legitimizing a military presence on the ground, and giving it a mandate, and allowing it to operate, becomes absolutely essential,
the Secretary-General earnestly hopes that all sides in Nepal will take all measures which will lead to peace talks.
All of us would have wanted more, but we can work with what we have been given ... It is an important step forward,
stress the desirability of a peaceful and diplomatic solution, but events on the ground may be running away from us.
This is a critical moment in the region, and Turkey has a central role to play,
The American people who have always been the most generous in responding to disasters in other parts of the world, have now themselves suffered a grievous blow,
Sanctions are a blunt weapon and sometimes it tends to hurt the innocent people,
The Secretary-General expressed full understanding on the issue,
The model of development we are accustomed to has been fruitful for few and flawed for many. A path to prosperity that ravages the environment and leaves a majority of humankind behind in squalor will soon prove to be a dead-end road for everyone.
Leaders in the region remain engaged in the process of convincing President Saddam and the Iraqi leadership to disarm and cooperate with inspectors,
hundreds of thousands more people are likely to become displaced as the conflict spreads and the drought worsens in the next two or three months.
Civilians are still being attacked and fleeing their villages even as we speak, many months after the government committed itself to bring the militias under control, ... It is urgent to take action now.