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 very much welcome this. I think it is a good resolution in itself -- no less important is the fact that it has been adopted unanimously,
The secretary-general has become aware of the fact that UNSCOM directly facilitated the creation of an intelligence collection system for the United States in violation of its mandate,
Blix until now has been guided by approved Security Council resolutions. If the council were to pass a new resolution giving him fresh guidelines, he will have to factor that in before he continues with his work, which will be up to the council ... to determine what the next stage will be.
I have heard the news. We are trying to get more facts about it. It would be extremely worrying if indeed he had disappeared.
They tried to impress upon him the seriousness of the situation and the fact that he's placing himself in a very difficult situation,
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.
The fact that you have not reached agreement on these and other issues does not render them any less urgent,
I don't think that the United States government rushes to judgment until all the facts are in.
I hope that the day will soon come when Resolution 425 is fully implemented, ... The question is, how do you go about this? ... Facts have been created on the ground. How could those facts impact on the implementation?
Globalization is a fact of life. But I believe we have underestimated its fragility.
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.
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.