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
We can wait until everything is perfect but how much time will that take? One year, two years, three years? Will the population accept this even though they haven't had a chance to vote for 40 years?
The president has been asking me for the last three years to come, I am happy to be among you.
I believe we should be seen as taking concrete steps to achieve the objective of two states living side by side in peace and security in three years' time,
There are now 11 women heads of state or government, in countries on every continent. And three countries -- Chile, Spain and Sweden -- now have gender parity in government.
hundreds of thousands more people are likely to become displaced as the conflict spreads and the drought worsens in the next two or three months.
All three of them are extraordinary international civil servants who have worked very hard within the spirit of the charter and ideals of the organization, and I'm rather disappointed that they have been attacked so publicly,
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.
The scale of this tragedy almost defies our darkest imagination,
The scale of this achievement seems to have been missed by some, ... So let's make sure we live up to our promises to the world's poor.
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,
It would be odd that suddenly they endorse it.