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
If they are not able to resolve it before the summit (in September), the issue is not going to die, ... They will have to pursue it and, I hope, resolve it before we all go away for Christmas.
If they fail to agree on a common position and action is taken without the authority of the Security Council, the legitimacy and support to any such action will be seriously impaired, ... If, on the other hand, they can come together even at this late hour to address this threat in a united manner and they show compliance with the previous resolutions, then the council authority will be enhanced and the world will be a safer place.
If they sat and discussed frankly and openly, I think we will be able to find a solution,
I have heard the news. We are trying to get more facts about it. It would be extremely worrying if indeed he had disappeared.
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.
One should not allow a minority or small minority to withhold their consent unreasonably. They should have the courage to vote and take decisions. But they tend to want to get consensus at all costs, and therefore you have 191 vetoes,
Obviously we need all our tools, helicopters, trucks, communication to be able to operate, ... We are placed in a situation where the government has not been cooperating and has limited the movements of our troops.
Obviously we didn't get everything we wanted. With 191 member states, it's not easy to get an agreement,
Obviously we didn't get everything we wanted and with 191 member states it's not easy to get an agreement, ... All of us would have wanted more but we can work with what we have been given, and it's a step forward.
Obviously we seen to be at the end of the road here,
no one in the international community defended what the Iranian president said and the Security Council itself issued a statement.
My concern is that, if it were adopted, it could set precedents that result in a proliferation of the unilateral and lawless use of force, with or without credible justification.
must set clear objectives and develop a strategy to achieve them.