Kofi Atta Annan

Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman Ismail assured UN Secretary General Kofi Annan that the UN could assess the needs of 450 000 people in areas of the Nuba Mountains held by the Sudan People's Liberation Army...

UN Secretary General Kofi Annan had offered the job to Mali's ex-President Amadou Toumani Touré who'd headed the previous African-backed peacekeeping force the Mission Internationale de Surveillance des Accords de Bangui (MISAB) which ended the 1997 mutiny against President Ange-Félix Patassé (AC Vol 39 No 5)...

United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan risks losing face in the Western Sahara...

On 13 March UN Secretary General Kofi Annan is to present a report to the Security Council on the winding down of the Angola operation which is currently renewed on a monthly basis...

A much tougher more political character than his predecessor the ailing bureaucrat Edouard Benjamin whom he replaced last August Kouyaté is a senior veteran of the United Nations' system and was one of Boutros Boutros Ghali's Under Secretaries but moved out of New York because he had been one of Kofi Annan's competitors...

This came after six months of direct negotiation under the auspices of Baker who was appointed United Nations' Special Representative to Western Sahara by Secretary General Kofi Annan last March (AC Vol 38 No 7)...

UN Secretary General Kofi Annan who was UN Under- Secretary General for Peacekeeping during the genocide quickly admitted publicly that the UN in Kigali had warned him genocide was being planned...

It was appointed by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to replace a similar team sent by the UN Commission on Human Rights which foundered on Kabila's opposition...

The USA gambled that moving UN goalposts on human rights (by persuading UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to drop Chilean human rights lawyer Roberto Garreton from the UN inquiry) would nudge Kabila's government into allowing the inquiry to proceed...

Also on the guest list are United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan EC President Jacques Santer and the EU President Luxembourg Premier Jean-Claude Junker...