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 think there are lessons for all of us to learn, ... We already have proposals for reforms that will ensure that in future we are better equipped to handle this sort of program.
This will be our first encounter, ... I have no idea what sort of atmosphere it's going to be, what he is like, how he reacts. Obviously, this is going to be a very difficult discussion. It is an issue that has persisted for 10 years.
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,
I think the United States government is working very hard with the parties to move the process forward, and I urge and encourage the parties to really work with the United States government to make the compromises necessary and move the process forward,
It is a problem that is solvable, ... They (Iraq) had a chance to do it and missed it. But I hope that they are serious about solving it through diplomatic means, that they will make the right gestures.
It is a serious matter. And we shouldn't forget that the council as a whole got the resolution only last Monday, ... For them to take time and discuss this issue seriously is something we should be grateful for.
I think the report speaks for itself and he will have to speak for himself,
is a wonderful gesture and I hope it is a sign of things to come. It shows his belief in the organization and international cooperation, and I hope it will inspire the governments to pay what they owe.
is a day on which, sadly, colleagues of ours in Somalia are missing.