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
I'm confident that next year they will be able to get onto the commission and this situation will be corrected, ... I think they should work towards next year rather than wanting to punish the membership at large.
I think this is a once in a generation opportunity that we have to do this,
Mexico has made some strides (on human rights) ... but there is still some way to go,
And I'm not sure that the US is going to insist on that. I think they've made their point, but I'm not sure the other member states would want to see the millennium development goals dropped or, the worse, expunged from the document.
I know that I speak for the whole world in offering them my heartfelt sympathy and any assistance that the United Nations can give, ... We will be happy to work with other parts of the international community to support the efforts of President Bush and his administration, the American Red Cross, and other U.S. relief organizations who have been our partners in the past.
interim basis until I reach a decision on whom to nominate to undertake this function on a continuing basis.
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,