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Nobel winners annan, Ahtisaari say reconciliation requires compromise
1 day ago

POINT TO MAKE: Former United Nations Secretary- General and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Kofi Annan gestures during his interview with the Bangkok Post. PHOTO: PATIPAT JANTHONG All sectors of society need to take ownership of the process, Mr Annan said,...
Herald on Sunday Editorial: It's not always all about you, Paul
1 day ago

Weekend Herald column last Saturday, in which he vented his spleen over the protests at Waitangi. The man who calculatedly engineered a studio walkout on the first night his eponymous television show went to air by confronting America's Cup skipper...
Annan hails Thai reconciliation
2 days ago

Thai government has received encouragement from former UN secretary-general Kofi Annan for its efforts to promote political and social reconciliation. Mr Annan offered the support during a meeting on Friday afternoon with Prime Minister Yingluck...
A-Listers And The Causes They Fight For
3 days ago

Penn thanks Venezuela's Hugo Chavez for Haiti aid, Angelina Jolie meets a Somali refugee, Leonardo DiCaprio talks tigers with Vladimir Putin and George Clooney with former UN secretary Kofi Annan, whom he briefed on the situation in Darfur 11:58am UK,...
UN Global Compact Expels Thousands of Companies
3 days ago

The 10 principles cover areas of human rights, labor, environment and anti-corruption. A press release states that within the Global Compact “a significant number of participants continuously fail to produce evidence of progress.” First proposed by...
'Resource Nationalism' Means Africa Is Waking Up - Finally
6 days ago

13 months ago I sat inside one of the hi-tech seminar rooms at the Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT in Accra listening to an expert on matters extractive: oil, gas, minerals. The guy had worked in government and in industry, holding high-level...
Green Tourism - Abu Dhabi Style
1 week ago

Strong Just when we thought we had heard the last from the disgraced former under-secretary general of the United Nations, Maurice Strong showed up at the first ever World Green Tourism Conference in Abu Dhabi. It was back in 2005, while serving as the...
Diplomatic double-talk
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But given recent experience in other Muslim countries, that is neither an assurance nor a selling point for the resolution. In December 2000, UNSC Resolution 1333 on Afghanistan was supported by Russia and the US. It was criticised by then UN...
Holmes' Waitangi Day column hits a nerve
1 week ago

Maori ghastliness with spitting, smugness, self-righteousness and the usual neurotic Maori politics, in which some bizarre new wrong we've never thought about will be lying on the table." The man who sparked a race row in 2003, when he referred to then...
Cautious Welcome for U.N.-Arab League Mission in Syria
1 week ago

La Belle France said there had to be "guarantees" for the mission. The U.S. and German ambassadors to the United Nations said their countries were studying the idea raised by U.N. leader the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon ... of whom it can be said to his...
Nigeria: Resolving the Boko Haram Challenge
1 week ago

The solution approach should have short and long term measures. In the short term, government should quickly constitute a discussion and reconciliation committee peopled by respected African social leaders like Captain Elechi Amadi (Rtd), General...
U.N. Chief Says Homs Onslaught an Affront to 'Humanity'
1 week ago

Nahar] U.N. chief the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon ... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan... said Monday he was appalled by the Syrian government's intensified onslaught on the protest city of Homs which he called "unacceptable...
Israel To U.S.: Don't Delay Iraq Attack
2 weeks ago

"Saddam's going to be able to reach a point where these weapons will be operational," he said. Meanwhile, Iraq told the United Nations on Friday that it will continue to discuss the return of U.N. weapons inspectors, but it insisted on conditions that...
Does India have a case in Kashmir?
2 weeks ago

This is meant to be a substitute for the plebiscite (though the UN specifically said it could not be). A third, unofficial, reason is that much time has passed and the resolutions have somehow become irrelevant. Kofi Annan said the same thing when as...
Munich Security Conference
2 weeks ago

Carnegie Endowment has been a training ground for many of the all-stars in the State Department.”
Budget Policy and Politics in an Election Year
2 weeks ago

“The Carnegie Endowment has been a training ground for many of the all-stars in the State Department.”
Let’s celebrate to accelerate
2 weeks ago

Firstly, we were all far too late to campaign for increased investments into food security until the price of food spiraled out of control, hitting the poorest hardest. Still nearly a billion people go hungry every day. Thankfully, the combined...
Four Rockets Fired from Gaza Hit Israel
2 weeks ago

Nahar] Four rockets fired from the Gazoo Strip struck inside Israel on Wednesday, causing neither casualties nor damage, an Israeli police front man said. The rocket fire came as U.N. Secretary General the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon ... of whom it can be...
Sweden questions Nobel Peace Prize selection basis
2 weeks ago

"They are ignoring the will altogether," the author and peace activist, Fredrik Heffermehl, told Reuters. In his view the last qualified peace prize winners were the United Nations and its then-secretary general, Kofi Annan, in 2001. Heffermehl, a...
Drawing New District Lines Starts Albany Brawl
2 weeks ago

1945, and the Special Session that formally established International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Queens GOP Leader Phil Ragusa Crowley was a strong supporter of the effort and worked with foreign embassies in Washington, D.C. to encourage them to send a...

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About Kofi Annan

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Kofi Atta Annan, GCMG (born 8 April 1938) is a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1 January 1997 to 1 January 2007. Annan and the United Nations were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize. Full Article

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