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
What's needed now is not more declarations or promises, but action, ... I believe my report provides a clear program of action.
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.
Today, it is thanks in large part to the firm challenge issued by President Bush -- and the pressure that followed it -- that the inspectors are back in Iraq.
Today I ask all the parties to bring to an end the violence that for 24 years has caused untold suffering to East Timor,
To extend their frustration beyond that and punish the entire organization would be wrong, and I think it would be counterproductive,
Whatever our differences, in our interdependent world, we stand or fall together, ... Even the strongest among us cannot succeed alone...We cannot succeed without the leadership of the strong and the engagement of all.
What do you do, for instance, if the peace you are trying to keep breaks down and large numbers of civilians are in danger of being massacred? I said we must all do our utmost not to allow such horrors, and especially such appalling failures by the United Nations, ever to happen again.
The people of Serbia want to have a say in the decisions affecting them. And I hope that this choice and their voice will be heard.
Unless this poll adheres to internationally accepted standards of conduct and participation, it may be difficult for the international community, including the countries of the region, to endorse the result,
Usually, because society's inequalities puts them at risk -- unjust, unconscionable risk.
would be insufficient to address, even as a temporary measure, all the humanitarian needs of the Iraqi people.
We support an all-inclusive process and we had hoped that this electoral process ... would pull the Iraqis together, ... It has not worked as we had hoped, but we still urge the parties to work together and I believe the reversal by the parliament of the decision last night would help the process.