7th Secretary-General of the United Nations (1938-2018)
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He rose through the UN's own ranks to lead it — the first secretary-general elected from inside the institution — then shared a Nobel Prize with the organization itself in 2001. After two terms steering reforms and launching the Global Compact, he kept working conflict zones until frustration ended his Syria mission in 2012.
Kofi Atta Annan joined the United Nations in 1962 as a staffer for the World Health Organization in Geneva and spent three decades moving through its hierarchy, including a stint as under-secretary-general for peacekeeping from 1992 to 1996. On 13 December 1996 the Security Council appointed him seventh secretary-general, making him the first to come from the UN staff itself; he won re-election in 2001 and left office in 2007. During those years he reformed the bureaucracy, fought HIV/AIDS in Africa, and launched the Global Compact, though he drew criticism for not expanding the Security Counc…
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I think that my darkest moment was the Iraq war, and the fact that we could not stop it.. I worked very hard — I was working the phone, talking to leaders around the world...
Eradication of extreme poverty has been identified as a priority, and specific targets have been set for prescribed measures.
You have said that your first priority is the eradication of extreme poverty.
More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations.
Unless the Security Council is restored to its pre-eminent position as the sole source of legitimacy on the use of force, we are on a dangerous path to anarchy.
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