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
given what happened last week, and the tense situation we find ourselves in.
What happened with the African Union soldiers is completely unacceptable,
this is not going to be business as usual or a repeat of what happened in the past.
We are taking very active measures to ensure that we do not have any more bad apples in that department, ... We are going to act very energetically to take measures to ensure that what happened does not happen again.
I would hope that what has happened does not foreclose moving ahead and working through the road map,
I walked in and shook hands and he asked what happened to the Egyptian,
You wonder where are the people? What has happened to them?
and measures that ought to be taken to ensure what has happened this year does not happen in the future.
I think we need a clear global understanding of the threats and challenges that we all have to face, because to neglect any one of them might fatally undermine our efforts to confront the others.
I think we can rein in the situation,
I think it was essential that he paid the money.
I thank you for your efforts, especially in calling for an end to agricultural subsidies and trade barriers that actually impoverish African farmers and producers,
I think this is progress, and I hope it can help us move peace processes around the world,
I think (the US government is) positive to our assistance from the UN and the international community ... We are prepared to do whatever we can,