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Tribute to Kofi Annan - UN Secretary-General at 73rd Session of General Assembly

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Channel: United Nations · 2018 · News & Politics

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Remarks by H.E. Mr. António Guterres, United Nations Secretary-General, at the 2nd plenary meeting of the 73rd session of the General Assembly.

The United Nations family paid tribute today (21 Sep) to former Secretary-General Kofi Annan, who passed away last month at 80 years of age.

Annan, a Ghanaian diplomat was elected twice as the UN’s top diplomat and held the post from 1997 to 2005

Annan championed everything from stronger human rights and peacekeeping operations around the world, to revitalizing the UN itself by insisting on creating a new dynamic deputy chief role, an effective ethics office and the mantra of zero tolerance for sexual exploitation.

Speaking from the General Assembly podium, Secretary-General António Guterres said Annan “urged us never to be bystanders in life.”

Guterres said Annan “summoned us all to act against bias, brutality and bloodshed. He was a multilateralist through and through, a true UN-blue believer in a rules-based global order. And, I must say, his loss cuts even deeper because we have never needed that faith and inspiration more.”

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