Annan

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.

Annan heads to Africa for two-week official visit

9 March 2006
Secretary-General Kofi Annan heads to Africa this weekend for a two-week official visit that will take him to South Africa, Madagascar, the Republic of Congo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where the United Nations has deployed a multifaceted peacekeeping operation, a spokesman for the world body announced today.