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
We have a clear mandate from the Security Council to do whatever we can to work with the government and the people of Iraq to make sure Iraq takes charge of its own future and develops a stable peaceful society,
To advance the peace process, it will be important to put an end to the escalating violence in the north and east and to strictly uphold the cease-fire. The people of Sri Lanka deserve a new hope that peace could be in reach.
This technology is far less capital-intensive than old industrial technology, and therefore may enable poor countries to leapfrog some of the long and painful stages of development that others had to go through,
What is needed today is nothing less than a new consensus between alliances that are frayed, between wealthy nations and poor. The essence of that consensus is simple: We all share responsibility for each other's security.
What is important is that we don't make a futile attempt to prevent people from crossing borders, ... The moving of people will continue.
What is important is that they should be treated in accordance with established norms of law, internationally and otherwise,
creative way of approaching the issue and you may wish to share it widely.
and vulnerable to psychological as well as physical insecurities.
and why did so many turn the other way?
During this election period, maybe there are certain proposals or issues that can not be pushed, and things are going to be at a standstill for a while ... I hope that these elections will go smoothly and we can get back to pressing the parties on the peace process.
far worse than any of us imagined at first.
The government of Syria has informed me that the smuggling of arms and people across the Syrian-Lebanese border does indeed take place, albeit in both directions,
Tragic experience has taught us that we cannot wait until the last minute to help,
to deal with harrowing memories and emotional scars.