Outlining his top priorities for 2006, his last year as United Nations Secretary-General, Kofi Annan said today that alongside efforts to promote peace and combat poverty and disease, he was determined to follow through on his wide-ranging agenda of reform and renewal of the world body.
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan was unanimously declared today the winner of the 2005 Prize for Global Leadership and the Environment conferred by the Zayed Prize International Jury, for his efforts on the environment and sustainable development.
United Nations Secretary-General will start a 14-trip to Asia this weekend with official visits to China, the Republic of Korea, Japan and Vietnam that will deal with issues ranging from bird flu to UN reform, a UN spokesman said today.
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan will be travelling in Europe over the next 10 days, paying official visits to Switzerland and Portugal, attending UN meetings and addressing an Ibero-American Summit.
The international cooperative movement – providing more than 100 million jobs and affecting half the world’s people through ethical and socially inclusive enterprises – is a major force in reaching the development goals that were the focus of the World Summit, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan said today.
Noting the shared commitment of the United Nations and the United States Congressional Black Caucus to championing Africa's rights, Secretary-General Kofi Annan today asked the group to redouble its efforts to secure fair terms of trade for the continent by focusing on the World Trade Organization (WTO) ministerial meeting in December.
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan will travel to Washington tomorrow to meet with United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Earlier in the day he will make the keynote speech at the forum “Africa Matters” to an audience of political leaders and business people.
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today mourned the death of Nazi war criminal hunter Simon Wiesenthal, citing his significant contributions to the UN’s own fight to promote tolerance and fight anti-Semitism.
Inviting Member States to join him in a mutual accountability pact, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today set out a series of actions to ensure that the pledges made at this week's World Summit become reality.
Development, security and human rights are so inter-connected that collective action is needed on all of them if the world is to meet today’s threats and challenges, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today told a meeting of world leaders organized by the former United States President Bill Clinton.
