Kofi Annan Clear Quotations

What's needed now is not more declarations or promises, but action, ... I believe my report provides a clear program of action.

The process has been difficult, but the outcome is a clear demonstration of the will of all the members of the Security Council to place the interest of the Iraqi people above all other considerations.

made it quite clear that the United Nations cannot condone the Turkish incursion into northern Iraq.

Let us not be deceived when we look at a clear blue sky into thinking that all is well. All is not well,

Lots of consultations are going on in various capitals. And everyone concerned, including the Americans, have made it clear they would prefer a diplomatic solution, ... Let us give it time. Let us see what happens.

must set clear objectives and develop a strategy to achieve them.

I am relieved that this saga is now over, ... I made it clear from the beginning that the boy belongs with his father.

I have been gratified by the clear determination expressed by NATO and its member governments to prevent a further escalation of the fighting, and I encourage all steps that may deter the further use of ethnically driven repression and the resort to violence by either side in Kosovo,

Today let us hear the bell ring loud and clear and true to our conscience, ... Let it ring out a century of cruelty and destruction and let it ring in a millennium of hope and peace.

I think is it is very important that the Iraqi parliament reversed itself, because that decision was patently inappropriate and we made that clear to them,

It is clear that if the declaration of commitment is to live up to its name, we will have to do much, much better on several fronts,

I think we need a clear global understanding of the threats and challenges that we all have to face, because to neglect any one of them might fatally undermine our efforts to confront the others.

I think we should see a clear message in the overwhelming success of women in presidential elections over the past year: the world is ready for a woman as secretary general of the United Nations.

Some governments have made it clear that next time around there may not even be time for diplomatic appeals,

We must not promise too much or raise expectations higher than are justified by the will of governments to act, but we must do whatever we can to raise the standards of international behavior and responsibility. I think we can only hope to succeed in that if we have a very clear idea of what was wrong up to now.

We have very clear requirements and if Iraq were to honor them, I think an invitation could be considered,

We need to decide our priorities. And we must adapt our United Nations so that in the future, those priorities are reflected in clear and prompt decisions leading to real change in people's lives. That my friend is what the people expect of us -- let us not disappoint them.

We have made it clear that it does not go around encouraging abortions, ... It does give good advice to women in the area of reproductive health and does very good work around the world, including in China.

We have a clear mandate from the Security Council to do whatever we can to work with the government and the people of Iraq to make sure Iraq takes charge of its own future and develops a stable peaceful society,

So we should be clear that in this situation, we will take the measures to make sure poor and rich have access to the medication and the vaccine required, ... And the decision should be taken ahead of time so that we don't have to quibble about it when the critical and the crisis moment arrive.

Notwithstanding the embargo, Cuba's achievements in social development are impressive given the size of its gross domestic product per capita, ... As the human development index of the United Nations makes clear year after year, Cuba should be the envy of many other nations ostensibly far richer.

a clear set of recommendations on how to do better in the future.

I hope the coalition will set an example by making clear that they intend to act strictly within the rules

We have to be very clear with the population and the countries we enter what we can do and what we cannot do.