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
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,
a technical exercise, a juridical exercise, and we need to keep it pure.
As we move forward, we hope we will be able to work with the Iraqis and the coalition to find a mechanism for establishing a caretaker or an interim government until such time elections are organized,
As we move forward into the future, the role of the United Nations in legitimizing a military presence on the ground, and giving it a mandate, and allowing it to operate, becomes absolutely essential,
All of us would have wanted more, but we can work with what we have been given ... It is an important step forward,
a clear set of recommendations on how to do better in the future.
Desperation forces entire families to leave their homes, take their chances with bandits and the elements, and travel for days in the hope that help may be available to them,
They must be condemned, and must be stopped.
They either consider the flood gates are open and they can come with their own amendments or they should hold the line and not move and so they place technical blocks on key aspects of the proposal.
They are concerned about the Iraqi population and civilian casualties. They are also anxious that assistance should get to the cities and to the people as soon as possible. But of course, they are worried as to how all this is going to turn out, which nobody really knows.
This moment belongs, above all , to the people of East Timor who have so richly earned their freedom.
There was never any intention on my part to make Mr. Hansen, Mary Robinson or Larsen part of the team, ... And so I found it rather unfortunate that there has been such public objection to their participation. The issue was never posed.