Kofi Annan

Kofi Atta Annan (born April 8, 1938) is a Ghanaian diplomat and the seventh and current Secretary-General of the United Nations.

External links

Biographies, interviews, and profiles

• Official UN biography
• Nobel Peace Prize biography
• Kofi Annan: Center of the Storm Detailed PBS profile. Includes interactive biography and map of Annan's worldwide travels, among other things. Requires Flash.
• Kofi Annan: An Online News Hour Focus A compliation of information, interviews, and initiatives about and by Kofi Annan, by the website of the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. From 1998-1999.
• Kofi Annan: Biographical Note Basic biography by Phyllis Bennis of the Global Policy Forum.
• One-on-one with UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan October 1998 interview of Kofi Annan by Kevin Chappell of Ebony.

Speeches

• Statements of Secretary-General Kofi Annan
• Nobel Peace Prize lecture

News and views

• United Nations Secretary-General Homepage
• U.N. Chief's Record Comes Under Fire
• Ian Williams, The Guardian, 20 September 2005, "Annan has paid his dues: The UN declaration of a right to protect people from their governments is a millennial change"