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 have come here to see for myself what is happening and to discuss with the president and the prime minister what we can do together in the short and the long term.
I don't expect a miraculous solution, ... As I've said, we shouldn't have unrealistic expectations that at this round we're going to be able to solve the Cyprus crisis.
Obviously some of the efforts are being made to improve the conditions of the Iraqi people and make sure that the sanctions do not harm them. But if Iraq were to turn off the taps, then we'll be in a very serious situation,
Obviously, our proceedings and operations have been impeded, and if this continues we will have to take some very hard and critical decisions as to the usefulness of staying there if we cannot operate,
Obviously if he came in the expectation that he will leave this issue behind us, then it has not succeeded.
No cause can justify such acts of terror,
New threats make no distinction between races, nations or regions. A new insecurity has entered every mind, regardless of wealth or status.
nearly half of them will have to survive on $2 a day or less.
Nearly 25 years into the pandemic, help is reaching less than 10 percent of the children affected by HIV/AIDS, leaving too many children to grow up alone, grow up too fast or not grow up at all,
only normal that governments now want to be involved in Internet governance.
Let there be no disguising the perilous state of earth, or pretending that conservation is too expensive when we know that the cost of failure to act is far greater,
Libya has confirmed its seriousness and readiness to find a solution to the Lockerbie problem,
Libya has also agreed to a trial in a third country and believes that it ought to be possible to find answers to all other outstanding issues relating to this matter,
Liberty is not just a cause for celebration today, but also a worthy crusade for our time, ... Where there is life, there is the thirst for liberty in all men and women regardless of faith, color or country.