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
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,
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.
I do not believe that the situation which exists between and within nations where we have extreme wealth and extreme poverty side by side can be sustained in the long term without our attempting to do something about it,
Collective punishment has cast a pall of anger and despair over the already tense occupied territories,
The Iraqi population showed incredible courage, going to vote in large numbers despite the security situation on the ground,