Kofi Atta Annan

To push a specific agenda such as regional security Whitehall's Africanists would favour a smaller more focused gathering of half a dozen heads of government along with perhaps United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan at Chequers (the Prime Minister's country residence) rather than a grandiose conference in London...

Last May the UN Secretary General Kofi Annan was assured by the Khartoum government that OLS would be allowed to send an assessment mission to the mountains but it has still not arrived...

United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan spoke confidently of an immediate cessation of hostilities; Rwanda's President Pasteur Bizimungu and South Africa's head of state-apparent Thabo Mbeki were pessimistic...

Nearly two years into the job United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan has implemented tough cost-cutting reforms while winning back some of the organisation's diplomatic kudos...

Among the staff Kofi Annan is the most popular Secretary General to date...

The new UN special representative to Angola Issa Diallo informed the government on 18 September that (on instructions from Secretary General Kofi Annan) he intended to pay his first visit to Savimbi on 21 September...

UN Secretary General Kofi Annan is hard pressed to get a successor acceptable to both parties...

If he is dissatisfied with its decision he will be able to appeal further to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and possibly to the UN Administrative Tribunal...

The last months of outgoing UN Resident Representative Omar Bakhet's two-year reign saw the humiliation of Kofi Annan and the suspension of Unhrfor...

Commonwealth Secretary General Emeka Anyaoku and United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan moved so quickly in arranging their trips to Abuja that we hear they surprised the new military leadership; they insisted on raising the Abiola issue publicly although some security sources are now saying it would have been easier for senior officers to have done a private deal with Abiola away from the glare of international attention...