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 personally believe, as I think a lot of security Council members believe with 100% certainty, that Iraq being fully disarmed is never going to be possible. At the end of the day the Security Council must decide whether Iraq is disarmed to the exten
If the U.S. and others were to go outside the council and take military action, it would not be in conformity with the charter.
In short, we need a process that is both performance-driven and hope-driven, because we need both performance and hope,
Because the exploration of space knows no national boundaries, the loss of the Columbia is a loss to all humankind,
I didn't have to urge him, because we all agree on that -- that preferably we should go the diplomatic route.
Honestly I wish we had never been given that program, and I wish the U.N. will never be asked to undertake that kind of program again. There were failures; there were inadequacies; there were situations that we couldn't deal with,
Governments have to commit themselves to bring to account those who attack these innocent and unarmed civilian humanitarian workers, and I would hope that this message would go out from this council today,
For the first time, we are seeing the emergence of a response to this deadly disease that begins to match the scale of the epidemic itself,
For the next few days and weeks, we literally remain in life-saving phase.
For the crisis to be put permanently behind us, Iraq must move swiftly to ensure complete and unconditional compliance, ... This is the best way toward the lifting of (U.N. sanctions against Iraq) and a better life for the people of Iraq.
For people who went into Iraq with only the objective of assisting the people of Iraq to be killed in such a violent and senseless manner is something that none of us will ever comprehend,
If I give the impression we are a world government, we'll get even more critics and our critics will be emboldened,
I came here to show support for all the millions of people in the world who stand to benefit if the Millennium Development Goals are reached, especially the children who will be saved from malaria or Aids, who will grow up healthy, go to school and have the chance to earn their living and enjoy life.
I don't think that the United States government rushes to judgment until all the facts are in.