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
such a system could run counter to efforts to halt proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
Such acts of provocation and vandalism will not deter the U.N. mission in East Timor from fulfilling its obligations,
Spending on the battle against AIDS in the developing world needs to rise to roughly five times its present level, ... The developing countries themselves are ready to provide their share ... but they cannot do it alone.
Some of the critics will never stop, but reasonable men and women will know that we've done everything we can to find the truth and are going to take steps to correct that.
If one party or the other says no (on March 10) there is no doubt that this is the end of road,
If 2005 was a year of important progress on aid and debt relief, 2006 must be the year of trade, ... If we are to conclude the Doha negotiations by the end of next year we need to make real progress at the WTO talks in Hong Kong in December.
From the information that we have, I understand that they are well and well-treated,
for the sake of its own people and for the sake of world order.
Some governments have made it clear that next time around there may not even be time for diplomatic appeals,
My people there are not complaining about the coordination.
Many governments, as well as representatives of civil society around the world, have urged her to reconsider,
Let me say that the U.N. resolution, the recent one which was passed on Syria, does not threaten sanctions,
Let me say that I don't think that the Council will say this is in contravention of the resolution of the Security Council,
Massive and systematic violations of human rights -- wherever they make take place -- should not be allowed to stand,