The people and government of Pakistan are faced with an extraordinary challenge and we need to make an extraordinary effort to support them, ... What is needed is an immediate and exceptional escalation of the global relief effort to support the work of the government of Pakistan. (Kofi Annan)
No ideology, no course can justify the vicious killing of innocent civilians, (Kofi Annan)
The permanent mission of Cuba to the United Nations wishes to protest strongly at the arbitrary decision and to state that it disagrees completely with the pretexts given. (Kofi Annan)
Now we have a different situation, where one group of states, led by the U. S., is saying that some threats -- particularly terrorism and weapons of mass destruction -- are so dangerous that they dare not wait until they are attacked, or until there is an agreement in the Security Council, before taking action, (Kofi Annan)
I suspect, whatever happens in the future, that kind of consultation will take place. (Kofi Annan)
By signing the Oslo accords in 1993 he took a giant step towards the realization of this vision. It is tragic that he did not live to see it fulfilled, (Kofi Annan)
Once human-to-human transmission has been established, we would have only a matter of weeks to lock down the spread before it spins out of control, (Kofi Annan)
This initiative, which must lead to a full Israeli withdrawal and complete end of occupation in Gaza, can be a step towards achieving the two-state vision and could restart progress on the road map, (Kofi Annan)
Now we turn to a new task to implement what has been agreed, and keep working to bridge differences that remain, (Kofi Annan)
There are a lot of people who have come here to work here to tackle the food crisis, (Kofi Annan)
does not look like a proposal at all. It is an insult to the Iranian nation. They have talked in a way as if the Iranian nation was suffering from backwardness, and the time was 100 years ago, and our country was their colony. (Kofi Annan)
Unless the differences within the transitional federal institutions are addressed, the current political impasse could grow into deeper divisions and undermine the very institutions that the people of Somalia so ardently desire and the international community and the United Nations are willing to support, (Kofi Annan)
I am telling the world leaders not only to come here and approve of a plan of action, but I expect them to go back home and do something about it, (Kofi Annan)
I have been gratified by the clear determination expressed by NATO and its member governments to prevent a further escalation of the fighting, and I encourage all steps that may deter the further use of ethnically driven repression and the resort to violence by either side in Kosovo, (Kofi Annan)
a citizen of the world in the fullest sense -- one whose vision and culture gave him a deep empathy with fellow human beings of every creed and color. (Kofi Annan)