Annan must also be commended for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria and for his sustained advocacy to increase access to drugs and diagnostics for poor people especially in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and Eastern Europe. The United Nations and Annan won the Nobel Peace Prize back in 2001, one of the highest accolades he had received during his career as secretary-general. jamaicaobserver
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...Kofi Annan Nobel Lecture Nobel Lecture, Oslo, December 10, 2001 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Excellencies, Members of the Norwegian Nobel ... uk.geocities.com/peace_444noro/annan-lecture.html
Kofi A. Annan of Ghana, the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations, is the first to be elected from the ranks of UN staff. www.nobel.se/peace/laureates/2001/annan-bio.html
... Prize Prize in Economics Kofi Annan The Nobel Peace Prize 2001 Nobel Lecture Nobel Lecture, Oslo, December 10, 2001 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Excellencies, ... www.nobel.se/peace/laureates/2001/annan-lecture.html
On Monday, U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan gave his valedictory speech at the Truman Library in Independence to instruct Americans about the principles of global leadership and their need for the United Nations. www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110009383
Kofi Atta Annan, the first black African to occupy the post of Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN), was born as one of a set of twins in Kumasi, Ghana, on 8 April 1938. www.prominentpeople.co.za/people/50.php
