Kofi Annan Road Quotations

In the midst of the road map process, when each party should be making good-faith confidence-building gestures, the barrier's construction in the West Bank cannot, in this regard, be seen as anything but a deeply counterproductive act,

I have argued for quite a long time that we should define humanitarian assistance in a broad enough manner to allow for assistance and repairs to electricity and heating systems and water for people through the winter, ... Otherwise we will have another humanitarian crisis on our hands.

which are internationally accepted and which have the broad support of member states and civil society.

Your proposal to broaden the scale of debt swaps would help provide debt relief and release additional funds for financing sustainable activities that are key to achieving the Millennium Development Goals,

There has been no progress in ameliorating the contention between leaders of the transitional federal institutions on four broad issues: the relocation of the transitional federal institutions, a national security and stabilization plan, national reconciliation and the peace support mission envisaged by the African Union/Intergovernmental Authority on Development,

I would hope that what has happened does not foreclose moving ahead and working through the road map,

Continued efforts in this direction will be necessary in devising 'a road map' for implementation of the agreement just reached.

to see if broader investigations can take place.

Progress has been made across a broader front than on any other single occasion in the 60-year history of the organization,

Obviously we seen to be at the end of the road here,

When states decide to use force, not in self-defense but to deal with broader threats to international peace and security, there is no substitute for the unique legitimacy provided by the Security Council,

The model of development we are accustomed to has been fruitful for few and flawed for many. A path to prosperity that ravages the environment and leaves a majority of humankind behind in squalor will soon prove to be a dead-end road for everyone.

There were governments that were not willing to make the concessions necessary, there were spoilers also in the group, let's be quite honest about that, ... I've tried to get them to understand that in our interconnected world, we need to look at issues in much broader terms rather than narrow national interests.