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 that the day will soon come when Resolution 425 is fully implemented, ... The question is, how do you go about this? ... Facts have been created on the ground. How could those facts impact on the implementation?
I hope you will give your full backing to all points of the strategy I have outlined. Let us ensure the United Nations play its role in this fight to the full,
I intend to be present when the report is submitted to the council.
I'm afraid we shall very soon be coming back with an appeal for much larger sums to finance actual relief operations.
If member states are going to get a meaningful outcome, there will need to be more give and take.
I have never seen such utter destruction mile after mile.
I have no choice but to share my feelings with the council, ... We will see how the council reacts ... I will leave this matter to them.
I had the chance to talk to mothers and their children, ... I was very happy to visit this centre, the work is very valuable and they deserve to be given support.
In already unstable societies, this cocktail of disasters is a sure recipe for more conflict,
It was normal for us to lend our support to candidates from (African) countries with links to France,
I walked in and shook hands and he asked what happened to the Egyptian,
I've had the chance to state my position clearly, which is that we need to build on international treaties and disarmament treaties which exist.
Tangible results are yet to be achieved in these two fields, and I will continue my efforts in this regard,
It's important that we do everything to make sure that the cease-fire holds -- we do everything to implement it and move forward very quickly with the implementation of all aspects of the Mitchell Report.