Tag: Kofi Annan

• Monday, August 20th 2018 - 07:32 UTC

  Messages of condolence and praise, from all over the world for Kofi Annan

  

  Kofi Annan, the only black African to become UN secretary-general, has died. The 80-year-old “passed away peacefully on Saturday after a short illness”, the foundation named after him said. His home country, Ghana, has declared a week of national mourning. Condolence messages have been pouring from all the world and international figures.

• Thursday, December 11th 2014 - 12:09 UTC

  OAS will vote for new Secretary General on 18 March 2015: Insulza steps down after a decade

  

  Member states of the Organization of American States (OAS) agreed that the next Assistant Secretary General will be elected on the same day as the election of the next Secretary General, 18 March 2015. The initiative was approved during Wednesday's regular meetings by the OAS Permanent Council.

• Monday, October 1st 2012 - 06:47 UTC

  Kofi Annan says exPM Tony Blair could have stopped the Iraq war

  

  Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair was the only person capable of turning George Bush against the 2003 Iraq invasion, ex-United Nations chief Kofi Annan claimed in an interview published Saturday.

• Thursday, February 2nd 2012 - 21:27 UTC

  Controversy over criteria for the award of the Nobel Peace Prize

  

  Swedish authorities are looking into whether the Nobel Peace Prize has been going to the “wrong” type of people, like human rights campaigners and environmentalists, in violation of prize founder Alfred Nobel's will.