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Kofi Annan

Annan arrives in Austria at start of two-week six-nation tour

11 May 2006
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan arrived in Vienna, Austria, today, to deliver the keynote address to tomorrow’s opening session of the Fourth Summit of the Heads and State and Government of the European Union, Latin America and the Caribbean.

UN, national parliaments must cooperate to foster democracy – Annan

8 May 2006
Secretary-General Kofi Annan is advocating closer cooperation between the United Nations and national parliaments in ensuring the rule of democracy and the consequent furtherance of world peace.

Secretary-General to begin two-weeks of visits: first to Austria and then to Asia

8 May 2006
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan will begin more than two weeks of official visits on Wednesday, traveling first to Austria and then starting a tour of Asia that will take in the Republic of Korea, Japan, China, Viet Nam and finally Thailand, a UN spokesman announced today.

Annan to go to Washington to address Jewish committee, academic meetings

3 May 2006
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan will address the centennial dinner of the American Jewish Committee (AJC) in Washington, D.C., on Thursday evening, his spokesman announced today.
Annan presented with 2006 Caux Roundtable award

New Macalester College Institute in US will foster global understanding – Annan

24 April 2006
Returning to the United States college that he graduated from over three decades ago, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has hailed the inauguration of its newly created Institute for Global Citizenship as a step forward in fostering international understanding.

Annan calls on international civil society to help build a renewed UN

21 April 2006
Secretary-General Kofi Annan today called on international civil society, in its all its varied forms, to help achieve goals in peacemaking, development, human rights and renewal of the United Nations agreed to by world leaders at the 2005 Summit in New York.

Annan leaves next week for Spain and Netherlands on official visit

31 March 2006
Secretary-General Kofi Annan travels to Spain and the Netherlands next week to chair a meeting of top United Nations executives and help celebrate the 60th birthday of the World Court, the UN’s top judicial body.
Professor Chinua Achebe

Annan hosts Nigerian novelist Achebe and others at UN forum on language

28 March 2006
Language has the power to connect people or divide them, Secretary-General Kofi Annan said today introducing the Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe and the Irish poet Paul Muldoon to speak on “The Use of Language in War and Peace,” as part of Mr. Annan’s lecture series at United Nations Headquarters in New York.
Kofi Annan

Equatorial Guinea and Gabon border dispute needs speedy resolution: Annan

24 March 2006
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today called for speedy resolution of a maritime border dispute between Equatorial Guinea and Gabon, stressing the need to have a “good result by the end of the year,” and pledging his support for the negotiations.
Annan arrives in the Republic of the Congo

Republic of Congo: Annan praises reconciliation at weapons-burning ceremony

20 March 2006
On the third leg of a trip to Africa, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today conferred with President Sassou Nguesso of the Republic of Congo and attended a ceremony for the destruction of weapons, one of the landmarks on the Central African country’s road to peace after a decade of bloody civil war.