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		The Royal Burgh of Annan is the principal town of Annandale and Eskdale and the third largest in Dumfries and Galloway, south west Scotland.
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	www.annan.org.uk (154 words)

	Kofi Annan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Annan was born to Henry Reginald and Victoria Annan on April 8, 1938, in the Kofandros section of Kumasi, Ghana.
		Annan was a twin, an occurrence that is regarded as special in Ghanaian culture; his twin sister Efua Atta died in 1991.
		Annan was Secretary-General during the 2003 invasion of Iraq and called for the United States and the United Kingdom not to invade without UN support.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kofi_Annan (1932 words)

	Kofi Annan - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Annan was a twin, an occurrence that is regarded as special in Ghanaian culture; his twin sister Efua died in 1991.
		Annan is married to Nane Maria (Lagergren) Annan of Sweden, a lawyer and artist who is the half-niece of Raoul Wallenberg.
		Annan was Secretary-General during the 2003 invasion of Iraq and called for the U.S. and UK not to invade without UN support.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Kofi_Annan (1149 words)

	Time for Kofi Annan to Go - Global Policy Forum - UN Secretary General
		Annan, when he was head of the United Nation's peacekeeping office, who could have prevented the slaughter of 800,000 Tutus and their sympathizers in Rwanda in 1994.
		Annan and President William Jefferson Clinton was also reported, in unrefuted detail, on a "Frontline" broadcast titled "The Triumph of Evil." The show was made in collaboration with the BBC and broadcast on PBS on Jan. 26, 1999.
		Annan is far from solely responsible for the United Nations' lack of accountability for its failure to speak out against the savage violations of human rights on the part of many of its members.
	www.globalpolicy.org /secgen/annan/re-election/010430.htm (812 words)

	Kofi Annan Brief Biography
		Annan, the first fl African Secretary General and the first to rise to the top position from within the ranks of the UN staff, is appreciated not only for his political acumen, but for his respect for and willingness to work collaboratively with his colleagues.
		Annan joined the United Nations system in 1962, working in financial and management posts with the World Health Organization, the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva, the UN Economic Commission for Africa, and at UN headquarters in New York.
		While Annan shared some responsibility, and characteristically apologized for his judgement errors, the main crises resulted not from Secretariat or secretary-general failures, but from the refusal of the major Security Council members to adequately respond and back the UN efforts.
	www.globalpolicy.org /secgen/annanbio.htm (965 words)

	My Way - News
		Annan urged nations to sign treaties on the protection of civilians and to strengthen and implement disarmament pacts, some of which, like a nuclear test ban treaty, the Bush administration has disowned.
		In the Middle East, Annan said children were deliberately targeted by Palestinian suicide bombers, and Israel destroyed and seized Palestinian lands and caused needless civilian casualties by the excessive use of force.
		Annan recalled that the United Nations was founded 59 years ago on the ashes of a war "that shocked" mankind.
	news.myway.com /world/article/id/110295\|world\|09-21-2004::11:08\|reuters.html (553 words)

	USATODAY.com - Annan's esteem takes a hit in U.S. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Annan and his wife, Nane, became stars on the Manhattan party circuit, and he was seen as responsive to calls from Congress to reduce the U.N. bureaucracy.
		Annan's son worked for inspection firm Cotecna in West Africa from 1995 to 1997, then as a consultant until just before the U.N. contract was awarded in 1998.
		Annan's critics say he is too damaged to accomplish anything of substance before his second term ends in 2006.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2005-05-15-annan-us_x.htm (965 words)

	Kofi Annan -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Annan was born to Henry Reginald and Victoria Annan on April 8, 1938, in (Click link for more info and facts about Kumasi) Kumasi, (A republic in West Africa on the Gulf of Guinea) Ghana.
		Annan is married to (Click link for more info and facts about Nane Maria (Lagergren) Annan) Nane Maria (Lagergren) Annan of (A Scandinavian kingdom in the eastern part of the Scandinavian Peninsula) Sweden, a lawyer and artist who is the half-niece of (Click link for more info and facts about Raoul Wallenberg) Raoul Wallenberg.
		Annan was then an Undersecretary-General until October 1995, when he was made a Special Representative of the Secretary-General to the former (A mountainous republic in southeastern Europe) Yugoslavia, serving for five months in this capacity and returning to his duties as Undersecretary-General in April 1996.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/k/ko/kofi_annan.htm (1699 words)

	The Biography of Kofi A. Annan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Annan was born in Kumasi, Ghana, on 8 April 1938.
		Annan was asked by the Secretary-General, as a special assignment, to facilitate the repatriation of more than 900 international staff and citizens of Western countries from Iraq.
		He is married to Nane Annan, of Sweden, a lawyer and artist who has a great interest in understanding the work of the United Nations in the field.
	www.un.org /News/ossg/sg/pages/sg_biography.html (894 words)

	CNN - Annan tells Palestinians, Israelis to show flexibility - Mar. 24, 1998
		Annan arrived in Israel on Tuesday after visiting the Jabaliya refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, where he was mobbed by Palestinians waving Palestinian and U.N. flags and pictures of the U.N. leader.
		Annan was to meet later with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yitzhak Mordechai.
		In the end, it was agreed that Annan's wife, Nane, would lay a wreath at Yad Vashem while her husband would lay one at the war memorial.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/9803/24/israel.annan (644 words)

	The Secretary-General Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Annan presents report outlining actions needed to follow up on the commitments made in the historic Millennium Declaration.
		Annan tours devastated areas after launching nearly $1 billion appeal for aid to victims of the 26 December disaster.
		In a letter to staff, Annan stresses the need for the UN to be seen as upholding the highest standards of ethical conduct.
	www.un.org /News/ossg/sg/index.shtml (1719 words)

	OpinionJournal - The Real World
		Annan is presenting his new improved save-the-world reform plan, conveniently timed to serve as a distraction from the oil-for-fraud, sex-for-food, theft, waste, abuse and incompetence stories that for the past two years have bubbling up around the same U.N. he already reformed for us back in 1997.
		Annan that every dollar taxed away from the citizens of the rich nations of the world is a dollar less that's available for these same private citizens to buy goods for which there is genuine market-driven demand--that being the real engine of development.
		Annan's chiding the Security Council and General Assembly that when they assign tasks to the Secretariat, they must take care "that they also provide resources adequate for the task." Yes, but as Oil for Food illustrated, even $1.4 billion in administrative funding was not enough to provide honesty and competence.
	www.opinionjournal.com /columnists/cRosett/?id=110006456 (1319 words)

	Kofi Annan - Biography
		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.
		Annan studied at the University of Science and Technology in Kumasi and completed his undergraduate work in economics at Macalester College in the United States in 1961.
		Annan has used his good offices in several delicate political situations, including an attempt in 1998 to gain Iraq's compliance with Security Council resolutions, as well as a mission that year to promote the transition to civilian rule in Nigeria.
	nobelprize.org /peace/laureates/2001/annan-bio.html (729 words)

	U.S. illegal claim not Annan's first (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Annan was not wearing a wreath of laurel, but told the adoring throng that he had not been alone in Baghdad, but surrounded by the world’s prayers.
		When Annan used the word "illegal" in the same sentence as the U.S. just a week ago, it was on the eve of the return of the General Assembly, which convenes in full each fall.
		But Annan says that given the current level of violence and unrest, it is unlikely that Iraq would be able to hold credible elections as planned.
	www.canadafreepress.com /2004/cover092004.htm (654 words)

	USATODAY.com - Annan failed to disclose key contacts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Annan has maintained he didn't know his son's company got oil-for-food business until after it was awarded in December 1998 and a newspaper reported it the following month.
		Annan generally acknowledged in the first interview that he knew Massey — referring to him as "the old man" — and occasionally met with him, including once in 1999, several months after Cotecna won the U.N. contract.
		During a March 17 interview, Annan was quizzed about a calendar entry indicating he had a "private lunch" on Sept. 4, 1998, with his son Kojo and "his friend" during a world conference in Durban, South Africa.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2005-05-14-annan-disclose_x.htm (1054 words)

	AllRefer.com - Kofi Atta Annan, UN (United Nations, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Annan began working for the United Nations in 1962 (with the World Health Organization) and, except for a stint as head of Ghana's tourist ministry (1974–76), has been with UN bodies ever since.
		In 1997, Annan succeeded Boutros Boutros-Ghali as secretary-general, becoming the first sub-Saharan African to hold the office; he was elected to a second five-year term in 2001.
		Annan has particularly emphasized the UN's traditional obligations in the area of human rights and the newer challenges of the HIV/AIDS pandemic and international terrorism.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/A/AnnanKofi.html (443 words)

	CBS News \| State Dept. Supports Annan Probe \| December 2, 2004 09:59:20
		Annan was doing just that on Wednesday, urging Wall Street financiers to support the global campaign to fight AIDS with money and expertise and preparing for Thursday's official launch of a report by a high-level panel recommending the most extensive reform of the United Nations since it was founded in 1945.
		Annan said he understood "the perception problem for the U.N., or the perception of conflict of interests and wrongdoing." But he reiterated that he has never been involved in granting contracts, to Cotecna or anyone else.
		Annan "has done a lot to strengthen the authority of the world organization, intensify its role and raise the effectiveness of the steps being taken by the U.N. on the full range of issues in international life," Fedotov said Tuesday.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2004/11/19/iraq/main656749.shtml (1023 words)

	Annan vows disclosure - The Washington Times: World - December 17, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Annan, who has faced calls from critics in Congress to step down, also insisted during a quick trip to Washington that he did not feel "snubbed" by his failure to meet with President Bush.
		Annan's comments were general, they were likely a reference to the U.S.-led war on Iraq last year, which the secretary-general and many in the world body criticized.
		Annan reported the United Nations is "on track" in its program to support crucial presidential and parliamentary votes set for next year.
	www.washtimes.com /world/20041216-113034-1324r.htm (945 words)

	Kofi Annan - Center of the Storm. Life Map. A Chief's Son \| PBS
		Kofi Annan was born on April 8, 1939 in Kumasi, Ghana, to an elite family.
		Kofi Annan probably got his first lessons in politics and diplomacy early on from his family.
		Upon his retirement, Annan's father, who worked as an export manager for the cocoa exporter Lever Brothers, was elected governor of Ghana's Asante province.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/un/life/map1.html (406 words)

	The White House Should Call on Kofi Annan To Resign (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Annan himself must be held responsible for numerous failures under his watch as a senior U.N. official (including his tenure as head of U.N. peacekeeping), from his refusal to confront genocide in the Sudan, Rwanda, and Bosnia, to his appeasement of Saddam Hussein’s regime.
		Annan’s inability to stand up to Saddam Hussein while he was in power and his subsequent refusal to support the use of force against the terrorist groups now spreading fear across Iraq are symbolic of the U.N. Secretary-General’s broader failure to confront terrorism, brutal dictatorships, and acts of genocide.
		Annan has become a symbol of the U.N.’s culture of arrogance, secrecy, mismanagement, weakness, and impotence, and it is time for a new figure at the helm, a secretary-general who will seek real reform of the U.N. bureaucracy and aggressively stand up for democracy, human rights, and freedom on the world stage.
	www.heritage.org /Research/InternationalOrganizations/wm623.cfm (1640 words)

	Kofi Annan - Center of the Storm. Life Map. On the Job \| PBS
		By early 1996, Kofi Annan's name was whispered in the halls of the UN as a potential candidate for Secretary-General.
		Annan did not campaign for the position and was nonchalant about his chances for election: "If it's to come to me, it will; if not, it won't."
		Annan has described his job as "a race against time." During his tenure, he has brought international action to stop the violence in East Timor and sought a ceasefire between Israelis and Palestinians.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/un/life/map4.html (625 words)

	American Prospect Online - ViewWeb
		Defending Annan is not the same thing as defending the United Nations; indeed, to defend Annan at this point is to defend someone whose mismanagement has done grievous harm to the United Nations and to the cause of liberal internationalism.
		A further irony is that one of the reasons for their attacks on Annan is his success in walking the diplomatic tightrope strung between insufferable American behavior and the U.N.’s genuine need to engage with Washington and to maintain a prestigious profile with the American public.
		Annan deserves our support against the hounds of FOX, because their attacks are irrational in their form -- and profoundly reactionary in their substance.
	www.prospect.org /web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewWeb&articleId=9101 (1491 words)

	Harvard Gazette: Kofi Annan to speak at Afternoon Exercises
		Kofi Annan, the secretary-general of the United Nations and 2001 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, will be Harvard's 2004 Commencement speaker at the Afternoon Exercises on June 10.
		Annan is the seventh secretary-general of the United Nations and the first to be elected from the ranks of UN staff.
		Annan describes the HIV/AIDS epidemic as his personal priority, and, in April 2001, the secretary-general issued a five-point "Call to Action" to confront the crisis aggressively, proposing the establishment of a global fund to turn ideas into action.
	www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/2004/04.15/01-speaker.html (814 words)

	Kofi Annan - Surprise! A decent U.N. secretary-general. By David Plotz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Kofi Annan is the perfect secretary-general for an age of U.S. triumphalism.
		Annan is building an organization we can live with, one that is smaller, better run, and more deferential to the United States.
		Annan is pushing merit-based promotion and management training, ancient ideas that are new to the United Nations.
	slate.msn.com /id/1854 (1289 words)

	UN Predicts Annan to be Vindicated in Oil-For-Food Probe
		Annan's son, Kojo Annan, is expected to come in for severe criticism.
		Annan worked for Cotecna in Africa in the mid-1990s, and has previously admitted that the company kept on paying him $2,500 a month until early last year.
		Annan appointed to look into allegations of corruption and mismanagement in the $65 billion oil-for-food program, is due to issue a report next week.
	www.voanews.com /english/2005-03-24-voa6.cfm (584 words)

	Kofi Annan: ‘Hell no,’ he won't quit - World News - MSNBC.com
		Annan was speaking after the release of a report by investigators, who said Tuesday there was not enough evidence to show that Annan knew of a contract bid by his son's employer for the oil-for-food program in Iraq.
		In a brief statement, Kofi Annan ignored the brunt of investigators’ criticism, saying only that on the “key issue” of the Cotecna contract, he was found to have done nothing wrong.
		Kojo Annan worked for Cotecna in West Africa from 1995 to December 1997, and then was a consultant for the firm until the end of 1998 -- when it won the oil-for-food contract.
	msnbc.msn.com /id/7316534 (600 words)

	Kofi Annan's Iraq Blunder (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Annan’s statement that the war was “illegal” is both false and spurious.
		By Annan’s logic, the 1999 U.S./British-led intervention in Kosovo, which was conducted without benefit of a Security Council resolution, also was “illegal” despite the fact that the international community supported it.
		Annan’s ill-timed comments should be seen as a poorly judged attempt to indirectly influence the U.S. presidential election.
	www.heritage.org /Press/Commentary/ed101204a.cfm (735 words)

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