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 am quite confident that a cease-fire can be achieved and a summit can go ahead,
I am thankful that the resolution passed tonight, ... I hope we will move ahead with urgent and determined action to help the Liberian people.
I am telling the world leaders not only to come here and approve of a plan of action, but I expect them to go back home and do something about it,
I am very concerned that despite some signs of progress, the work may not finish on time and that the deadline will be missed,
I appeal to the international community to provide immediate assistance, which is saving hundreds of lives everyday,
I appeal to all involved to avoid use of bombs and violence and really get back to the negotiating table.
But they are not running forward to contribute to this force, so we have to take the forces we get.
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.
I would be surprised if the United States would want to place themselves ... in that situation, of being the ones who are seen to be against the interests of the poor, as being the ones who want to ignore the needs and the human dignity of others,
I wish to stress that the United Nations is eager to be at your side in the efforts to resolve the problems of your country and the region on the basis of universal principles of peace, justice and human rights,
I wish to do all I can to encourage the leaders to muster the spirit of compromise, courage and leadership, which they are capable of,