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
devoted tireless efforts to building the state and nation and, in so doing, earned the respect of the population.
Diplomacy is still the way -- with the six-party talks. Everybody agrees on that. The next thing is to try and get everyone back to the table,
Continued efforts in this direction will be necessary in devising 'a road map' for implementation of the agreement just reached.
could lead to a large-scale humanitarian disaster, with the approaching winter.
creative way of approaching the issue and you may wish to share it widely.
Violence breeds violence. I urge you to opt for restraint.
Washington will not put an American officer on the ground.
We are taking a medium to longer term view rather than pulling out immediately after elections.
The tragedy of Srebrenica will forever haunt the history of the United Nations
We have started contingency planning to be ready if and when the decision is taken for us to go in.
We have started a new year with a singular chance to prove that our humanity is intact and well -- a chance to prove that when calamity strikes, we are equal to the task,
We can wait until everything is perfect but how much time will that take? One year, two years, three years? Will the population accept this even though they haven't had a chance to vote for 40 years?
We must resolve, even more firmly, to build nations within which people of different communities can coexist, and enjoy equal rights,
We must redouble our efforts in working toward a world free of nuclear dangers, and ultimately, of nuclear weapons,