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Kojo Annan is a maternal grandson of Sir Adeyemo Alakija. The UN Security Council recommended Annan on 13 December 1996. [2] Annan and the UN were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize. [131] On 16 October 2014, Annan attended the One Young World Summit in Dublin. [11] Annan and his sister were born into one of the country's Ashanti and Fante aristocratic families; both of their grandfathers and their uncle were tribal chiefs. In 2004, ten years after the genocide in which an estimated 800,000 people were killed, Annan said, "I could and should have done more to sound the alarm and rally support. The body of Kofi Annan was returned to his native Ghana from Geneva in a brief and solemn ceremony at the Kotoka International Airport in Accra, on 10 September 2018. Her parents are Efik from Cross river state and Lebanese and she has a brother, Jay Rammal. [146] His coffin, draped in the blue UN flag, was accompanied by his widow Nane Annan, his children and senior diplomats from the international organisation. Stanley Meisler, Kofi Annan. Kofi Annan, the former UN secretary-general and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, has today passed away peacefully at age 80 after a short illness. [130] In May 2011, following months of political violence in Côte d'Ivoire, Annan travelled to the country with Elders Desmond Tutu and Mary Robinson to encourage national reconciliation. The Ex- UN Secretary General is survived by Nane Annan wife, three children kojo(Son), Ama Annan and Nina Cronstedt de Groot(Daughters) Here are some of the pictures of the family members. Star Sign (Zodiac Sign) Capricorn. Annan died a week before the first anniversary of the report, shortly after an announcement by a replacement commission that it would not "point fingers" at the guilty parties – leading to widespread concern that the new commission was just a sham to protect culpable Myanmar government officials and citizens from accountability.

Annan joined the UN in 1962, working for the World Health Organization's Geneva office. "[82] Observers from other nations supported Malloch's view that conservative politicians in the U.S. prevented many citizens from understanding the benefits of U.S. involvement in the UN. Unless we re-make our human rights machinery, we may be unable to renew public confidence in the United Nations itself." Home; Random; Nearby; Log in; Settings; Donate; About Wikipedia; Disclaimers Iraq Asks US Forces To Leave / Trump Holds A Bible, Visits Church In White House Vandalized By Protesters, Links: (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10). Stanley Meisner (2007). [97] Annan also stated that the lack of international unity and ineffective diplomacy among the world leaders had made the peaceful resolution in Syria an impossible task.[98]. The report listed the companies, both Western and Middle Eastern, which had benefited illegally from the program. [137] Published by Penguin Press, the book has been described as a "personal biography of global statecraft". Annan's contribution to peace worldwide is delivered through mediation, political mentoring, advocacy and advice. [12], In the Akan names tradition, some children are named according to the day of the week on which they were born, sometimes in relation to how many children precede them. [49], In an address to The World Economic Forum on 31 January 1999, Secretary-General Annan argued that the "goals of the United Nations and those of business can, indeed, be mutually supportive" and proposed that the private sector and the United Nations initiate "a global compact of shared values and principles, which will give a human face to the global market".[50]. Kofi Atta Annan (/ˈkoʊfi ˈænæn/;[1] 8 April 1938 – 18 August 2018) was a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations from January 1997 to December 2006. It was held at the Rockefeller Brothers Fund (RBF) Conference Center at the Rockefeller family estate in Pocantico Hills, New York, and was sponsored by both the RBF and the UN. He was re-elected for a second term in 2001, and was succeeded as Secretary-General by Ban Ki-moon on 1 January 2007. "[25], In his book Interventions: A Life in War and Peace, Annan again argued that the United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations could have made better use of the media to raise awareness of the violence in Rwanda and put pressure on governments to provide the troops necessary for an intervention. Some of the international representatives resigned – notably the panel's Secretary, Thailand's former foreign minister Surakiart Sathirathai, and former U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Bill Richardson – decrying the "implementation" committee as ineffective, or a "whitewash."[100][111]. 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Annan said that the school taught him that "suffering anywhere, concerns people everywhere". Kojo Annan: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know, Copyright © 2020 Heavy, Inc. All rights reserved. He later “disappointed” his father when news of his controversial business dealings — and his alleged involvement in the UN Oil for Food scandal — became public. [38][39], In March 2000, Annan appointed the Panel on United Nations Peace Operations[40] to assess the shortcomings of the then existing system and to make specific and realistic recommendations for change. After some years of work experience, he studied at the MIT Sloan School of Management[16] (1971–72) in the Sloan Fellows program and earned a master's degree in management.