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
Continued efforts in this direction will be necessary in devising 'a road map' for implementation of the agreement just reached.
If we leave here without agreement we shall give comfort to the worst elements in every society.
Obviously we didn't get everything we wanted. With 191 member states, it's not easy to get an agreement,
Obviously we didn't get everything we wanted and with 191 member states it's not easy to get an agreement, ... All of us would have wanted more but we can work with what we have been given, and it's a step forward.
If Iraq were to break the agreement, it would be much easier to get an agreement in the council to take military action,
No matter how difficult agreement is, there is no escaping the fact that the challenges of our time must be met by action and today, more than ever, action must be collective if it is to be effective.
I would want us all to put real collective pressure and sustain it on President Milosevic in the hope that we will get an agreement and he will understand the implications of any escalation,
By your agreement on the outcome document, these achievements will be locked in,
The fact that you have not reached agreement on these and other issues does not render them any less urgent,
I recognize that there are no simple solutions to the debt problem, ... But where there is agreement in principle that debt relief is essential and when delays have a profoundly negative impact of the lives of poor people, clearly more must be done.
Agreement is fine, but the most important is implementation,
Perhaps the single most successful international agreement to date has been the Montreal Protocol.
too early to say who's going to take charge and who's going to run the government.
We will take the measures to make sure poor and rich have access to the medications and the vaccines required,