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
The memo of understanding has strengthened ... It is the council, not a few critics, who will have the last word.
The leadership of Iraq continues to defy mandatory resolutions adopted by the Security Council,
The lean season in southern Africa traditionally starts in December and runs through March, but many people have already exhausted their food stocks,
The Iraqi population showed incredible courage, going to vote in large numbers despite the security situation on the ground,
The Iraqi people have made their decision and have approved the draft constitution,
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,
I hope that the day will soon come when Resolution 425 is fully implemented, ... The question is, how do you go about this? ... Facts have been created on the ground. How could those facts impact on the implementation?
I hope you will give your full backing to all points of the strategy I have outlined. Let us ensure the United Nations play its role in this fight to the full,
I intend to be present when the report is submitted to the council.
I'm afraid we shall very soon be coming back with an appeal for much larger sums to finance actual relief operations.
I think that peacekeeping can do quite a lot, if they are given the right mandate with the commensurate resources to get the job done.
We knew the Syrian situation was complex and there were lots of divisions, particularly on the side of the opposition.This is a tough job.It can perhaps be done if you stand united and work with me in putting sustained pressure on the protagonists or the parties to come together and seek a political settlement.
In all these cases, part of the reasons for failure perhaps was not analyzing and assessing the true nature of the crisis, the resources that would be required, and exaggerated expectation of what the U.N. troops can do.