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 don't think anyone can remove it from the general public's perception of how we are moving ahead with development.
I don't think any institution can go through the scrutiny, the scrubbing we've gone through and come out squeaky clean,
I am very grateful that the prime minister and the Cabinet decided not to stick to the deadline,
I am not sure that they will be ready to refer (Iran) to the Security Council if the official report of the board has not been released and deliberated upon by the board and a decision taken.
I believe it is time for us to work together to try to stabilize Iraq, ... Our decisions should be unified rather than divisive, and I think we would not characterize the decision taken yesterday as unified.
How this crisis is resolved will affect greatly the course of peace and security in the region and the world, ... I commend the council for acting today with purpose and resolve.
The council is beginning to look at these issues more critically and with a bit more of an open mind,
The choice is between this settlement and no settlement.
I'm not here necessarily to see a cause and effect, ... But if the public ... realizes how the U.N. impacts on their daily lives, what the U.N. and its agencies are doing to make this world a better place, I think they will support us.
I hope the report, which is a technical one, is not going to be politicized,
I hope the reports are not correct, because he is a leader of his people who has played an important role in Iraq, and we need input from leaders like him,
I hope the coalition will set an example by making clear that they intend to act strictly within the rules
In the midst of the road map process, when each party should be making good-faith confidence-building gestures, the barrier's construction in the West Bank cannot, in this regard, be seen as anything but a deeply counterproductive act,
interim basis until I reach a decision on whom to nominate to undertake this function on a continuing basis.