Kofi Annan Quotes - Page 11

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• You have to develop a certain healthy distance to allow you to keep a clear head, to be able to analyse the situation, lead your team, and move forward with them, because there are times if I'm not careful... if you get too involved, it will consume you; it will consume you, and you will not be good to your team; the issues you are dealing with.

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  Distance, Team, Moving Forward

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• You may have noticed over the years that the UN became a bit more media-friendly, a bit more open to the media than in the past.

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  Past, Media, Years

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• The UN was very media-shy, and its relationship with the press was very controlled; although periodically I spoke to the press, the rule was, only the secretary-general speaks to the press; only the secretary-general makes... So you would see many situations where under-secretaries-general would come in and speak. I opened that, and I encouraged all of them to speak in their areas, whether it was peacekeeping or humanitarian efforts.

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  Media, Effort, Shy

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• After the end of the cold war, everybody thought, fantastic, finally the UN may be able to do what it was originally set up to do without big power divisions. It would be easy to get them to come together to resolve things. You will recall, on the first Gulf war, you almost got a unanimous resolution and a very solid coalition.

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  War, Together, May

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• It's not that easy to quit. When you look back in the American system it is very rare that people quit on issues of principle.

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  Issues, People, Principles

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• Normally when people resign they will organise their champagne farewell parties... and then they resurface somewhere.

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  Party, Farewell, People

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• You will recall that for months after 9/11, there was incredible support and sympathy for the US. I really hoped and wished they had played on that, and kept all these friends they had made, and found a way of dealing with the terrorists through co-operation of international intelligence services, police exchange of information.

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  Intelligence Services, Support, Police

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• We tend to look at countries in terms of failed states and functioning states, which is rather simplistic.

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  Country, Looks, States

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• In the rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear.

  Kofi Annan

  Country, Sight, Justice

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It is well known that you can only manage what you measure, and as this is the job of professional accountants, it means they have huge influence on companies' governance.

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  Jobs, Mean, Influence

  Source: www.accaglobal.com

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• My intimate knowledge of the [UN] system allowed me to get things done despite the many obstacles.

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  Done, Obstacles, Intimate

  Source: www.accaglobal.com

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• Beneath the surface of states and nations, ideas and language, lies the fate of individual human beings in need. Answering their needs will be the mission of the United Nations in the century to come.

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  Lying, Fate, Ideas

  Kofi Annan's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 2001.

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• Justice has taken its course and the authority and legitimacy of the legal process must be respected.

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  Taken, Justice, Authority

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• If there is one area where equity is crucial and essential,
  I think it should be the issue of water.

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  Thinking, Issues, Water

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• World Health Day is an opportunity to highlight the problem, but above all, to stimulate action. It is an occasion to call on all partners - governments, international donors, civil society, the private sector, the media, families and individuals alike - to develop sustainable activities for the survival, health and well-being of mothers and children. On this World Health Day, let us rededicate ourselves to that mission.

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  Mother, Children, Health

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• On this International Day of UN Peacekeepers, let us pay tribute to the men and women from countries across the world who serve selflessly, tirelessly and fearlessly in UN peacekeeping operations. Let us remember the heroes who have laid down their lives in lands far from their own in the service of peace. And let us reaffirm our commitment to building a world free from the scourge of war.

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  Country, War, Hero

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• Nelson Mandela stands as an inspiration to us all

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  Inspiration, Moral Compass, Nelson

  Twitter post from Dec 5, 2013

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• His Holiness brings a wealth of experience to this exalted office. The United Nations and the Holy See share a strong commitment to peace, social justice, human dignity, religious freedom and mutual respect among the world's religions.

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  Religious, Strong, Commitment

  "Joseph Ratzinger Becomes Pope Benedict XVI". www.cnn.com. April 19, 2005.

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• Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope... Especially for girls and women, it is an agent of family health and nutrition.

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  Girl, Bridges, Dams

  Kofi Atta Annan (1998). “The quotable Kofi Annan: selections from speeches and statements by the Secretary-General”, United Nations

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• Achieving the MDGs is not optional; it is an essential investment in a safer, more human and prosperous world

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  Mdgs, Essentials, World

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• Landmines are among the most barbaric weapons of war, because they continue to kill and maim innocent people long after the war itself has ended. Also, fear of them keeps people off the land, and thus prevents them from growing food.

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  War, Land, Long

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• ... the long-lasting humanitarian impact of these inhuman weapons continues to deny communities the opportunity to rebuild long after the end of the conflicts.

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  Opportunity, Impact, Long

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• 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.

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  Opportunity, People, Suffering

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

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  People, Together, Standards

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Not only do these abominable weapons lie buried in silence and in their millions waiting to kill or maim innocent women and children; but the presence or even the fear of the presence of a single landmine can prevent the cultivation of an entire field, rob a whole village of its livelihood, place yet another obstacle on a country's road to reconstruction and development

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  Country, Children, Lying

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