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 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.
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,
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.