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,
We have a lot of issues on the agenda to discuss and I'm looking forward to the meeting. We will of course discuss the Iranian issue, the situation in Iraq, the Middle East... I would not be surprised if the issue of the cartoons comes up.
I came to see myself, to talk to the government, to see what we can do together to improve the situation not only in the short-term, but also in the long-term,
Mr. de Soto's contacts with regional leaders, while not as complete as would have been desirable, nevertheless confirmed my concern that the new situation which had emerged following the developments of May, compounding as it does the longstanding causes of friction between India and Pakistan, may have serious implications for peace and security in the region and beyond,
Obviously we need all our tools, helicopters, trucks, communication to be able to operate, ... We are placed in a situation where the government has not been cooperating and has limited the movements of our troops.
It is vital that we turn this situation around and ensure that developing countries receive the financial resources they need,
They tried to impress upon him the seriousness of the situation and the fact that he's placing himself in a very difficult situation,
It is my view that, rather than allowing this situation to deteriorate into a crisis, the Security Council should engage with the Iraqi authorities in order to resolve the problem,
given what happened last week, and the tense situation we find ourselves in.
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,
I'm confident that next year they will be able to get onto the commission and this situation will be corrected, ... I think they should work towards next year rather than wanting to punish the membership at large.
Honestly I wish we had never been given that program, and I wish the U.N. will never be asked to undertake that kind of program again. There were failures; there were inadequacies; there were situations that we couldn't deal with,
The Iraqi population showed incredible courage, going to vote in large numbers despite the security situation on the ground,
I do not believe that the situation which exists between and within nations where we have extreme wealth and extreme poverty side by side can be sustained in the long term without our attempting to do something about it,