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 would hope that what has happened does not foreclose moving ahead and working through the road map,
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 have come here to see for myself what is happening and to discuss with the president and the prime minister what we can do together in the short and the long term.
What happens in the West Bank is very much on our mind, ... For us, the Quartet, it's Gaza first and then the next stage will be the West Bank, not Gaza first and Gaza last.
What happened with the African Union soldiers is completely unacceptable,
I walked in and shook hands and he asked what happened to the Egyptian,
It is very difficult to say what happens after the votes are counted,
We are taking very active measures to ensure that we do not have any more bad apples in that department, ... We are going to act very energetically to take measures to ensure that what happened does not happen again.
this is not going to be business as usual or a repeat of what happened in the past.
I suspect, whatever happens in the future, that kind of consultation will take place.
given what happened last week, and the tense situation we find ourselves in.
What do you do, for instance, if the peace you are trying to keep breaks down and large numbers of civilians are in danger of being massacred? I said we must all do our utmost not to allow such horrors, and especially such appalling failures by the United Nations, ever to happen again.
You wonder where are the people? What has happened to them?
and measures that ought to be taken to ensure what has happened this year does not happen in the future.