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The Green Weenie – Maurice 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 2
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Double-dealing and double standards are the stuff of the powerful in the world at large. THERE is something of a double bind when a troubling situation and the common understanding of it are both flawed. For example, the uprising in Syria and the opposit
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Former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan (R) speak to Crown Princess Victoria (L) and Prince Daniel during the International Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony at the Raul Wallenberg square in Stockholm January 27, 2012. View Photo »
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Broadcaster Paul Holmes has fired a huge debate by tearing into Maori radicals and suggesting New Zealand should replace its national day, Waitangi Day, with Anzac Day in a Weekend Herald column. Under the heading 'It's time to cancel our repugnant natio
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[An Nahar] The major powers gave a cautious welcome on Thursday to proposals to send a joint Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which
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In my unpublished article titled ‘Dialectics of Boko Haram’ written on the 12 August 2009, I decried the mishandling of the issue by the federal government, in particular the Nigerian police. That year, police killed one Alhaji Yusuf, alleged to be the l
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Former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan (R) speaks with Sweden's Crown Princess Victoria (L) and Prince Daniel (C) during the International Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony at the Raul Wallenberg square in Stockholm on January 27, 2012. The... View Photo »
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[An 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 b
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(CBS) Israel is urging U.S. officials not to delay a military strike against Iraq's Saddam Hussein, an aide to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Friday. Israeli intelligence officials have gathered evidence that Iraq is speeding up efforts to produce biol
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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French President Jacques Chirac (2nd R), US President George W. Bush (2nd L), British Prime Minister Tony Blair (L) and UN Ambassador Kofi Annan button up their jackets after an AIDS-HIV announcement after their first working session of the G-8 meeting at Palazzo Ducale 20 July, 2001 in...
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UN Secretary General Kofi Annan is seen inside a UN helicopter as he arrives to visit the UNIFIL headquarters in the southern Lebanese bordertown of Naqura, 29 August 2006. Annan visited war-battered south Lebanon to see the destruction caused by the month-long conflict between Israel...
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A Lebanese woman and her three sons look at the convoy of UN cheif Kofi Annan as it arrives to Beirut's southern suburbs, 28 August 2006. Dozens of Hezbollah followers chanted in unison as Annan forced his way on foot under tight security across the rubble of several flattened buildings.
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A Lebanese pushes his wheelchair in a devastated street in the southern suburbs of Beirut before the arrival of UN cheif Kofi Annan to the area, 28 August 2006. Dozens of Hezbollah followers chanted in unison as Annan forced his way on foot under tight security across the rubble of...
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Students of Zarghoona girls' high school hold peace signs during the visit of United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan in Kabul 25 January 2002. During a press conference, Annan warned Afghanistan's neighbours not to interfere with the war-torn country's affairs so as to allow it to...
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Norway's Queen Sonja (1stR), Queen Rania of Jordan (2ndR) and Norway's King Harald (3rd R) welcome Bengali economist Muhammad Yunus (1stL), Vice President of the World Socialist Party Gro Harlem Brundtland (2ndL), President of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague Hisashi...
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Former UN Human Rights commissioner Louise Arbour of Canada (L) shakes hands with former United Nations general secretary Kofi Annan after winning the 2011 Prix de la Fondation Chirac award at the Musee du Quai Branly in Paris November 24, 2011. The Chirac Foundation presents an award...
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Deposed Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo (2nd L) speaks on May 2, 2011 with three officials, representing a group known as The Elders -- former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan (2nd R), Nobel Prize winner South African Archbishopp Desmond Tutu (C), former Irish president and UN human...
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IOC President Jacques Rogge plays with a ball in front of FIFA President Joseph S.Blatter, World Economic Forum Executive Chairman Klaus Schwab and United Nations General Secretary Kofi Annan while attending the session 'The Impact of Sports in the World' at the World Economic Forum...
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United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan chats with Garret Fitzgerald, the Chancellor of National University of Ireland, after receiving an honourary Doctor of Law Degree at Dublin Castle in this January 22, 1999 file photo. Former Irish Prime Minister Garret Fitzgerald, who led two...
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UN Secretary General Kofi Annan (L) and Russian President Boris Yeltsin (R) look at the ceiling of the presidential room in the Kremlin during their meeting in Moscow, 29 April. Kofi Annan arrived in Russian to meet with top Russian officials on the Kosovo crisis.
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Kofi Annan (C), former UN Secretary-General speaks at a session called, 'More voting, less Democracy', during the second day of the World Economic Forum on Africa on May 5, 2011, in Cape Town, South Africa. The others in the photo are (L-R) Raila Odinga, Prime Minister of Kenya, Annan,...
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Kofi Annan (R), former UN Secretary-General, speaks at the Launch of the Africa Progress Panel Annual Report for 2011, during the second day of the World Economic Forum on Africa on May 5, 2011, in Cape Town, South Africa, while Graca Machel (L), Founder, Foundation for Community...
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Kofi Annan, former UN Secretary-General speaks at the Launch of the Africa Progress Panel Annual Report for 2011 during the second day of the World Economic Forum on Africa on May 5, 2011, in Cape Town, South Africa.
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(L-R) Dawda Jobarteh, Olesegun Obasanjo, former Nigerian President, and Founder of Obasanjo Holdings Nigeria, Graca Machel, Founder, Foundation for Community development, Mozambique, and Kofi Annan, former UN Secretary-General, joke before the start of the Launch of the Africa Progress...
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UN Secretary General Kofi Annan is seen in a television screen as he delivers a speech during the commemorative event to mark the entry into force of the Kyoto Protocol hosted by the Ministry of the Environment of Japan at the Kyoto International Conference Hall in Kyoto 16 February 2005.
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Media attend a press conference attended by former UN General Secretary and Peace Nobel, Kofi Annan, former Irish Primer Minister Bertie Ahern, Northern Irish Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams, Norwegian Prime Minister, Gro Harlem Brutland, French Pierre Joxe and British Jonathan Powell, on...
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From left to right, British diplomat Jonathan Powell, Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams, former Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern, former UN General Secretary and 2001 Nobel Peace Prize winner Kofi Annan, former Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland and former French politician Pierre...
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Former UN General Secretary and Peace Nobel, Kofi Annan, third right to left, gestures with former Norwegian Primer Minister Gro Harlem Brutland, left, beside to Northern Irish Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams, right him, and former Irish Primer Minister Bertie Ahern, right, with British Jonathan...
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Former UN General Secretary and Peace Nobel, Kofi Annan, third right walks downs the stairs at the end of the International Basque Conference, beside Northern Irish Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams, left, former Norwegian Primer Minister Gro Harlem Brutland, 2nd left, former Irish Primer Minister...
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South African lawyer Brian Currin, center, who meet in an initiative to find a solution for the troubled Spanish region of Basque Country, gestures as he waits to visit of former UN General Secretary an Peace Nobel, Kofi Annan, in San Sebastian, northern Spain Monday Oct. 17, 2011.
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Cuban President Fidel Castro (R) meets with United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan at the United Nations Millennium Summit 08 September, 2000. Castro has met also with Russian President Vladimir Putin and reportedly had a brief encounter with US President Bill Clinton.
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