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
I've been in touch with the two leaders, and I appeal to them to do whatever they can to bring the situation under control and bring an end to the violence,
will make every effort by conducting an impartial inquiry with a view to bringing to justice those responsible.
Today I ask all the parties to bring to an end the violence that for 24 years has caused untold suffering to East Timor,
I am delighted that president Bush has accepted to play this role. I know the Pakistan authorities are too. We know that he is going to bring extraordinary leadership and attention to this terrible tragedy.
If the Indonesian government ... brings those responsible to trial, there will be no need ... for the Security Council to establish a second international tribunal,
He (Karimov) said he had the situation under control and was taking every measure to bring those responsible to account and didn't need an international team to establish the facts,
Civilians are still being attacked and fleeing their villages even as we speak, many months after the government committed itself to bring the militias under control, ... It is urgent to take action now.
But I hope the work that has been done will not be wasted and that the people of Cyprus -- both Turkish and Greeks -- will see an advantage in pursuing this effort and bringing it to a fruitful conclusion.
I hope John Bolton will take up the challenge of Henry Kissinger. I would love to read the title, 'Bolton brings peace to the world.'
Governments have to commit themselves to bring to account those who attack these innocent and unarmed civilian humanitarian workers, and I would hope that this message would go out from this council today,
All is not well. Science tells us that if we do not take the right action now, climate change will bring havoc, even within our lifetime,
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,
The scale of this tragedy almost defies our darkest imagination. We meet today to prevent a second shockwave of deaths and to prevent further suffering.