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
Quite apart from his role as a spiritual guide to more than a billion men, women and children, he was a tireless advocate of peace, a true pioneer in interfaith dialogue and a strong force for critical self-evaluation by the Church itself,
thousands of villages have been burnt and more than a million people forced from their homes. In all about 1.3 million need immediate assistance.
Ideally one would want to see a rapid-reaction force go in to assist, ... But this can only happen if those with capacity are prepared to offer.
I believe they will need to go in with heavier equipment, not necessarily to do battle, but sometimes you need to show force in order not to use it, ... You have to have a credible presence so that they don't even dare to challenge you.
But they are not running forward to contribute to this force, so we have to take the forces we get.
Millions still live poor and isolated lives. Millions more have found their lives disrupted, even destroyed, by global economic forces they do not understand and cannot control,
were supposed to use force only in self-defense, or by a collective decision that it was necessary to use force in order to keep the peace.
But our founders were not pacifists. They knew there would be times when force must be met by force.
Desperation forces entire families to leave their homes, take their chances with bandits and the elements, and travel for days in the hope that help may be available to them,
It was foreseeable that some would choose to resist by force of arms.
It's incumbent on the leaders to really do whatever they can to reign in their forces and ensure that innocent civilians are not the ones to pay the price,
I think no one in the council is pushing for use of force in the first instance,
You can do a lot with diplomacy, but with diplomacy backed up by force you can get a lot more done.
too early to say who's going to take charge and who's going to run the government.