Former UNSG Kofi Annan, who is now the joint envoy of the UN and the Arab League with a mandate to end the violence in Syria, is readying a recommendation that will be delivered to the UN Security Council in New York later today to establish a 250-observer force that will also have its own [...]
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Filed under: Kofi Annan, Syria, UN Security Council
The UN Security Council met with relative efficiency on Saturday afternoon at UNHQ/NY and voted unanimously [15-0] to send an advance team of some 30 unarmed military observers to Syria, as an advance team of monitors to observe compliance with a six-point plan by “Joint Envoy” Kofi Annan to stop the violence that has killed [...]
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Filed under: Ambassadors and other diplomats, Human Rights, Kofi Annan, Syria, UN Secretary-General, UN Security Council
“An international humanitarian think-tank presided by former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan is closing down after it plunged deep into debt, Swiss authorities said Wednesday. The Geneva-based Global Humanitarian Forum, which was partly financed by the Swiss government, was launched in 2007 in Geneva under Swiss impetus to bring together the humanitarian community, governments and [...]
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Filed under: Kofi Annan, Switzerland
“The human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory remains grave”, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour informed the members of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva this week. Three new reports on the situation in the occupied Palestinian territory were discussed at the Human Rights Council in Geneva on [...]
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Filed under: BAN Ki-Moon, Gaza, Human Rights, International Law, Israel, Kofi Annan, Middle East Peace Process, NGOs, Palestine & Palestinians
The Israeli Government Press Office has just sent out an UPDATE to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s schedule today — announcing a meeting early this evening with former UN SG Kofi Annan as head of a delegation of the “UN Foundation” [I think they mean "Annan's" Global Humanitarian Forum, which was just officially launched on 17 [...]
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Filed under: Israel, Kofi Annan, Quartet, United Nations
The first I heard of the Israeli push for its “fair share” of UN posts was in September 2000, just after the failed Camp David peace talks hosted by U.S. President Bill Clinton, and just before violent repression of demonstrations against Ariel Sharon’s visit to the Temple Mount/Al-Aqsa Mosque complex ignited the Second Intifiada. The [...]
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Filed under: BAN Ki-Moon, Israel, Kofi Annan, UN Administration
The UN Spokesperson told journalists at UNHQ/NY on Friday that “The Security Council extended the terms of the current prosecutors for the two international tribunals in back-to-back formal meetings today. By a unanimous vote, the Council extended Hassan Jallow’s term as Prosecutor for the Rwanda Tribunal by four years. Carla Del Ponte, the Prosecutor of [...]
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Filed under: Former Yugoslavia, International Tribunals, Kofi Annan, Rwanda, UN Security Council
An interesting read can be found at the Nation magazine’s 2 April 2007 issue, in an article entitled “Made in USA“, which at least starts off as a rather scathing review of two of what the author, Perry Anderson, calls “fawning” biographies of Kofi Annan: “The facts of Annan’s career are clear enough, and in [...]
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Filed under: Iraq, Kofi Annan, UN History, UN Peacekeeping, UN Secretary-General
The Juba Post, a Sudanese newspaper, reports that former UN Envoy Jan Pronk, a liberal Dutch politician who was declared persona non grata by Sudan due to his blogging comments, has hit back at the UN for its inaction: “Jan Pronk, former Special representative of the Secretary General of the UN, has condemned the Sudan [...]
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Filed under: Kofi Annan, Sudan - Darfur, UN Peacekeeping, UN Secretary-General, UN Security Council
…or at least, words written for him, and signed in his name [was former UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric responsible, when he worked for the Oil-For-Food programme?]. Here are excerpts from an op-ed piece that was published in the International Herald Tribune in September 2005: “Oil-for-food: Far from a failure” –“After nearly a year and a half [...]
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Filed under: Iraq, Kofi Annan, UN Secretary-General, UN Security Council