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
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It is essential that we look at all aspects of the (oil-for-food program) and try to streamline it, improve it and let it run more efficiently and effectively,
I think this is a once in a generation opportunity that we have to do this,
I think this is a new beginning. It is not an end. There's lots of hard work ahead.
Malaria can be beaten, the means exist. Together we can change the world and prolong the vast movement of solidarity reflected in this evening's concert,
We need to find a way of getting everybody to talk,
We need helicopters, trucks, heavy lifting equipment, shelter and health care, ... We need tarpaulins, ground sheets and stoves. We need water and sanitation equipment. We need food supplies.
Under the circumstances, it is difficult to envisage the United Nations operating with a large number of international staff inside Iraq in the near future unless there is an unexpected and significant improvement in the overall security situation,
We have not yet achieved the sweeping and fundamental reform that I and many others believe is required.
The president has been asking me for the last three years to come, I am happy to be among you.
We have very clear requirements and if Iraq were to honor them, I think an invitation could be considered,
The Americans are usually very generous in assisting in other crises,
The American people who have always been the most generous in responding to disasters in other parts of the world, have now themselves suffered a grievous blow,
The amount asked for is small compared to the cost of a pandemic we are not ready for.