Kofi Annan Urgent Quotations

I am thankful that the resolution passed tonight, ... I hope we will move ahead with urgent and determined action to help the Liberian people.

keep working with determination on the tough issues on which progress is urgent but has not yet been achieved.

When I think of the delicate balance of tremendous promise and urgent peril in today's world, I think particularly of the nations of Latin America, ... Because yours is a region that truly hangs in that delicate balance. It is in many ways a microcosm of the world in which we live, and it is therefore a place in which all that the United Nations stands for is put to test.

Civilians are still being attacked and fleeing their villages even as we speak, many months after the government committed itself to bring the militias under control, ... It is urgent to take action now.