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
you will be pledged to act if another Rwanda looms.
You will agree to establish a Peace building Commission, backed by a support office and a fund, ... This will mark a new level of strategic commitment to one of the most important contributions the United Nations makes to international peace and security. You will also agree to create a standing police capacity for the United Nations peacekeeping operations.
You wonder where are the people? What has happened to them?
and positioning ourselves in a manner that protects the men.
and measures that ought to be taken to ensure what has happened this year does not happen in the future.
And that, of course, will require you to deploy in places you have not covered up to now.
And I'm not sure that the US is going to insist on that. I think they've made their point, but I'm not sure the other member states would want to see the millennium development goals dropped or, the worse, expunged from the document.
All three of them are extraordinary international civil servants who have worked very hard within the spirit of the charter and ideals of the organization, and I'm rather disappointed that they have been attacked so publicly,
The mediator for the Palestinian-Israeli issue is the United States, ... and I support very fully their efforts and I encourage the parties to work energetically and constructively with them in search of a durable peace.
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 Global Initiative is important in that it recognizes that change requires collective action. The four priority areas of the CGI reflect also what we are trying to do across town.
The coalition has indicated to me that they will do the maximum to protect the teams that are going to work in Iraq, so I think that, from here, in a few days, the teams will be ready to travel and to start work,