Kofi Annan Quotes
We will not enjoy security without development, we will not enjoy development without security, and we will not enjoy either without respect for human rights.
Annan, Kofi. In Larger Freedom: Towards Development, Security and Human Rights for All. United Nations, 2005, p. 1.
During the 2006 War on Terror, the George W. Bush Administration established secret prisons in friendly countries where suspected terrorists could be housed and questioned without regard to the American laws and regulations—or even Presidential directives about torture. The prisons were on the soil and under the jurisdiction of foreign countries whose laws were not as respectful of human rights and the rule of law as ours. Therefore the administration could deny that the U. S. was responsible for what occurred even though we secretly transported the suspects to the secret prisons and American agents participated in their “interrogation.”
His government had just used force to disarm the rebellion of religious Kurds.
Kofi Atta Annan was a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations from January 1997 to December 2006. Annan and the UN were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize. He was the founder and chairman of the Kofi Annan Foundation, as well as chairman of The Elders, an international organization founded by Nelson Mandela.
