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 think it was essential that he paid the money.
I thank you for your efforts, especially in calling for an end to agricultural subsidies and trade barriers that actually impoverish African farmers and producers,
I think this is progress, and I hope it can help us move peace processes around the world,
It is my view that, rather than allowing this situation to deteriorate into a crisis, the Security Council should engage with the Iraqi authorities in order to resolve the problem,
I would use this opportunity once again to urge President Saddam Hussein and the Iraqi leadership to take the wise decision of resuming cooperation with UNSCOM and the atomic agency,
I would urge all countries and any group that can help to assist. The Americans have been very generous in assisting in other crises. Now they have been dealt a serious blow,
I would want us all to put real collective pressure and sustain it on President Milosevic in the hope that we will get an agreement and he will understand the implications of any escalation,
keep working with determination on the tough issues on which progress is urgent but has not yet been achieved.
I suspect, whatever happens in the future, that kind of consultation will take place.
I suspect there will be lots of criticism.
I think it is important that the leaders stay the course.
I think it is all right for one ambassador to come and push, but an ambassador always has to remember that there are 190 others who will have to be convinced, or a vast majority of them, for action to take place,
I think it is wonderful news, what is coming out of Islamabad, and I am extremely happy that the talks are taking place.
I think it is possible to get a compromise resolution,