Kofi Annan Quotes on People (29 Quotes)

There are a lot of people who have come here to work here to tackle the food crisis,

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,

would be insufficient to address, even as a temporary measure, all the humanitarian needs of the Iraqi people.

hundreds of thousands more people are likely to become displaced as the conflict spreads and the drought worsens in the next two or three months.

No ideology can justify the killing of innocent people.

Given the pressure from the people, from the grass roots, I really do not think any government can sit out this movement for long, ... It's only a matter of time.

Most people are much more directly threatened by such things as extreme poverty, hunger, disease, environmental disasters, or by low-tech violence, when order breaks down in their country or civil war breaks out,

National markets are held together by shared values and confidence in certain minimum standards. But in the new global market, people do not yet have that confidence.

In their greatest hour of need, the world failed the people of Rwanda.

Millions of children and young people are already affected by the pandemic - including those infected through the most heart-reading from of transmission, mother to child,

Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world.

What is important is that we don't make a futile attempt to prevent people from crossing borders, ... The moving of people will continue.

I understand and share their anguish. But it cannot justify violence, least of all attacks on innocent people.

You've heard the phrase it's a race against time. Indeed we are. In the next few weeks the snow will come, it will get extremely cold and there are some people in the open without shelter and we really need to get assistance to them. We need the support of governments, the private citizens, private sector and anyone who can spare a euro, a pound or a dollar.

We continue to note with great concern the actual and proposed route of the barrier, particularly as it results in a confiscation of Palestinian land, cuts off the movement of people and goods and undermines Palestinian trust in the road map process by appearing to prejudge the final borders of the future Palestinian state,

It seems at times like a nightmare from which we are still hoping to awake, except that for millions of people in 12 affected countries, spanning two continents, and for tens of thousands of visitors from nations around the world, this nightmare is devastatingly real,

We need to decide our priorities. And we must adapt our United Nations so that in the future, those priorities are reflected in clear and prompt decisions leading to real change in people's lives. That my friend is what the people expect of us -- let us not disappoint them.

We have a clear mandate from the Security Council to do whatever we can to work with the government and the people of Iraq to make sure Iraq takes charge of its own future and develops a stable peaceful society,

I came here to show support for all the millions of people in the world who stand to benefit if the Millennium Development Goals are reached, especially the children who will be saved from malaria or Aids, who will grow up healthy, go to school and have the chance to earn their living and enjoy life.

I urge the Iraqi leadership for sake of its own people... to seize this opportunity and thereby begin to end the isolation and suffering of the Iraqi people.

But while some countries produce more than they need to feed their people, others do not, and many of these cannot afford to import enough to make up the gap.

Terrorism constitutes a direct attack on the values the UN stands for the rule of law the protection of civilians peaceful resolution of conflicts and mutual respect between people of different faiths and cultures,

from Sierra Leone to the Sudan , to Angola , to the Balkans and Cambodia , and to Afghanistan -- there are great numbers of people who need more than just words of sympathy from the international community.

This is a huge, huge disaster, ... It is a race against time to save the lives of these people. And I would hope that the international community will respond and those with capacity will do everything possible to work with us and work with the Pakistani government.

Sanctions are a blunt weapon and sometimes it tends to hurt the innocent people,

For the crisis to be put permanently behind us, Iraq must move swiftly to ensure complete and unconditional compliance, ... This is the best way toward the lifting of (U.N. sanctions against Iraq) and a better life for the people of Iraq.

That means a second, massive wave of death will happen if we do not step up our efforts now, ... The people and government of Pakistan are faced with an extraordinary challenge and we need to make an extraordinary effort to support them.

I am thankful that the resolution passed tonight, ... I hope we will move ahead with urgent and determined action to help the Liberian people.

I recognize that there are no simple solutions to the debt problem, ... But where there is agreement in principle that debt relief is essential and when delays have a profoundly negative impact of the lives of poor people, clearly more must be done.