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 hope he will be able to convince the Iranian partners to come back to the table.
I have quite a lot of work to do and I'm carrying on with my work, ... We have a major agenda next year and the year ahead, trying to reform this organization, so we'll carry on.
I have tried to put together a team with considerable experience, a team familiar with humanitarian issues,
I think no one in the council is pushing for use of force in the first instance,
Iraq holds America and Australia fully responsible for such provocative acts that endanger civil marine navigation in the Arab Gulf,
Civilians are still being attacked and fleeing their villages even as we speak, many months after the government committed itself to bring the militias under control, ... It is urgent to take action now.
By your agreement on the outcome document, these achievements will be locked in,
Camp David made major strides, and I hope we would be able to capitalize on that process and reach an agreement,
Can I trust Saddam Hussein? I think I can do business with him.
Can we not attempt on a global level what any successful industrialized country does to help its most disadvantaged and underdeveloped regions to catch up?
By the solemn undertaking they have given here in open court, these eleven men and seven women, representing all regions of the world and many different cultures, have made themselves the embodiment of our collective consciences,
But while some countries produce more than they need to feed their people, others do not, and many of these cannot afford to import enough to make up the gap.
But I hope the work that has been done will not be wasted and that the people of Cyprus -- both Turkish and Greeks -- will see an advantage in pursuing this effort and bringing it to a fruitful conclusion.
Because the exploration of space knows no national boundaries, the loss of the Columbia is a loss to all humankind,