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On climate change, we often don't fully appreciate that it is a problem. We think it is a problem waiting to happen.


Kofi Annan

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KOFI ANNAN The tragedy of Srebrenica will forever haunt the history of the United Nations
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KOFI ANNAN I have come here to see for myself what is happening and to discuss with the president and the prime...
KOFI ANNAN extremely concerned about the rapidly deteriorating situation.
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KOFI ANNAN to see if broader investigations can take place.
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KOFI ANNAN The balance must be redressed.
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KOFI ANNAN I personally believe, as I think a lot of security Council members believe with 100% certainty, that...
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KOFI ANNAN We submit to you our request for your involvement and your good office in the present circumstances ...
KOFI ANNAN a new era of human rights in Iraq will now begin.
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KOFI ANNAN given what happened last week, and the tense situation we find ourselves in.
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KOFI ANNAN a serious lack of cohesion within the mission as well as a number of other shortcomings.
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KOFI ANNAN I know that I speak for the whole world in offering them my heartfelt sympathy and any assistance th...
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KOFI ANNAN Iraq has a new opportunity to comply with all these relevant resolutions of the Security Council.
KOFI ANNAN It was so brutal, so quick, and so extensive that we are still struggling to fully comprehend it.
KOFI ANNAN exercised through patient diplomatic persuasion and coalition-building.
KOFI ANNAN I had hoped that some of those with the capacity would go to the assistance of those who are in ther...
KOFI ANNAN I am braced and we are all ready.
KOFI ANNAN unhappily, both were found and have been documented in great detail.
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KOFI ANNAN This summit must be a summit of solutions,
KOFI ANNAN so that we can get away from the idea that some, such as terrorism and weapons of mass destruction, ...
KOFI ANNAN If they are not compensated, they are not going to tell you whether their birds are sick, ... If oth...
KOFI ANNAN well beyond the scope of the powers vested in the Great Council.
KOFI ANNAN The big item missing is non-proliferation and disarmament. This a real disgrace.
KOFI ANNAN Remembering is a necessary rebuke to those who say the Holocaust never happened or has been exaggera...
KOFI ANNAN guilty of no wrongdoing.
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KOFI ANNAN to ensure an end to impunity.
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KOFI ANNAN We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to o...
KOFI ANNAN Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope.
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KOFI ANNAN I think we can rein in the situation,
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KOFI ANNAN when it comes to operations on that continent, we tend to do it on the cheap.
KOFI ANNAN No cause can justify such acts of terror,
KOFI ANNAN I don't think any institution can go through the scrutiny, the scrubbing we've gone through and come...
KOFI ANNAN I came to listen and explore ways and means of intensifying the diplomatic efforts and try to achiev...
KOFI ANNAN The president has been asking me for the last three years to come, I am happy to be among you.
KOFI ANNAN If the United Nations does not attempt to chart a course for the world's people in the first decades...
KOFI ANNAN I don't like hypocrisy-even in international relations.
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KOJO ANNAN I admire my father greatly.
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KOJO ANNAN I have never participated directly or indirectly in any business related to the United Nations.
KOJO ANNAN In fact, I did not attend a single meeting at the United Nations.
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