United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today concluded his official visit to Germany, collecting a pledge from Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder for $131 million to the Global AIDS and Health Fund.
The situations in the Balkans and the Middle East was high on the agenda during talks in Berlin today between United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan and German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer.
Secretary-General Kofi Annan today received the Philadelphia Liberty Medal in the city it was named for and donated the $100,000 cash grant which accompanies the award to the Global AIDS and Health Fund.
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan will leave on Friday on a two-week four-nation trip during which he will attend a summit forum in Africa and a Group of Eight meeting in Europe, a UN spokesman announced today.
Six months before the end of his current mandate, Kofi Annan, a native of Ghana, was unanimously appointed today by the General Assembly for a second five-year term as Secretary-General of the United Nations.
Following a unanimous action by the General Assembly to appoint Kofi Annan to a second term as United Nations Secretary-General, representatives of various regional groups at the world body voiced their strong support for the UN leader, praising his personal integrity and dedication, as well as his professional qualities of a consummate negotiator and reform-minded manager.
Secretary-General Kofi Annan will be in Philadelphia on 4 July, United States Independence Day, to receive the city's 2001 Liberty Medal, along with a $100,000 cash award that he has pledged to the Global AIDS and Health Fund, a UN spokesman confirmed today.
The United Nations Security Council this morning unanimously recommended Kofi Annan, a native of Ghana who five years ago became the first UN staff member to serve as Secretary-General, to a second term at the Organization's helm.
Beginning the official part of his current visit to the United Kingdom, Secretary-General Kofi Annan today discussed world hotspots with the country's leaders, who endorsed his bid for a second term at the helm of the United Nations.
On the third day of his visit to the United Kingdom, Secretary-General Kofi Annan today received an honorary law degree from Oxford University, which hailed him as "a far-sighted partisan of justice and a tireless advocate of peace."
