TagsTagsJimmy Carter was instrumental in putting Robert Mugabe in power, and now he and Kofi Annan have been barred from entering Zimbabwe.
Fresh from a no-Jews-allowed “Global Dialog” conference with the mullahs in Tehran, former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan announces his endorsement of Barack Obama: AFP: Former UN chief mulls ‘phenomenal’ Obama presidency. DUBLIN (AFP) — A US presidential poll victory for Barack Obama would be “phenomenal,” former UN chief Kofi ...
Oh yeah. This will help. Carter, Annan to lead peace delegation to Middle East next month. A council of world leaders launched by former President Nelson Mandela is sending a three-person team to try to help ease tensions in the Middle East, the organization known as The Elders said Friday. Former UN ...
LGF, Palestinians, Terrorism, Jerusalem, Israel, Jimmy Carter, Kofi Annan, Mary Robinson
Nelson Mandela has appointed a group of “elders” who will solve the world’s problems by acting as moral role models, and offering wise counsel: Jimmy Carter, Kofi Annan, and Mary Robinson. As befitting the world’s most popular statesman, Nelson Mandela marked his 89th birthday yesterday with songs, tears and a host ...
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Fallaci Award winner John Bolton has a piece in the Washington Post evaluating UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon’s first week on the job: Don’t Ban Your Instincts, Ban Ki-moon. Even more problematic than the death penalty debate was another matter Ban raised during his first week on the job. In an ...
Claudia Rosett has an article in the New York Sun about the latest example of Kofi Annan’s stunning corruption and hypocrisy: Mystery Surfaces Over Apartment of Kofi Annan. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) As Secretary-General Annan prepares to leave his post at the United Nations, a mystery is surfacing surrounding his apartment ...
Don’t look now, but the incoming Secretary General of the United Nations may not be a complete idiot: New UN chief denounces Iran for denying Holocaust, threatening Israel. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) UNITED NATIONS - Incoming United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told Iran on Thursday it was unacceptable to deny that ...
Iowahawk is the best dumpster-diver in the biz, and tonight he’s been digging at 48th and FDR Drive: iowahawk: Kofi Talk. Nearly 50 years ago, when I arrived in Minnesota as a student fresh from Africa, I had much to learn. For example, the concept of “connecting flights,” because I was ...
Jules Crittenden translates Kofi Annan’s farewell speech from its original language.
Kofi Annan is leaving the hopelessly corrupt United Nations, and in his farewell speech the dictators’ best friend took a final slap at the US: Annan Criticizes U.S. in Farewell Speech. U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, in his farewell address, criticized the Bush administration, warning that America must not sacrifice its Democratic ...
The United Nations is ecstatic over the election results: U.N. Celebrates Republican Loss? (Hat tip: Black George Bush.)
Here’s a must-read at the Sunday Times on the absolutely hideous record of United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan: Is there blood on his hands? (Hat tip: LGF readers.) The bodies were still warm when Lieutenant Ron Rutten found them: nine corpses in civilian clothes lying crumpled by a stream, each ...
United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan’s embarrassing visits to Syria and Iran (and Saudi Arabia, oddly enough) produced laughable empty promises to “support the Hizballah-Israel truce” from the two countries most responsible for creating and sustaining Hizballah. Now Annan seems to think those empty promises are real checks he can take ...
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UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has a plan to stop the violence—he’ll demand full reports in triplicate: Annan details Mideast cease-fire terms. UNITED NATIONS - Secretary-General Kofi Annan has warned Israel and Lebanon against occupying additional territory and told them to refrain from responding to any attacks “except where clearly required ...
United Nations, Hizballah, UNIFIL, Lebanon, Israel, Kofi Annan
The United Nations (mainly France) and the glorious Lebanese Army will be charged with keeping Hizballah away from the border, in the proposed Security Council resolution to make everyone feel better without actually doing anything to solve the terrorist infestation in southern Lebanon. Hizballah’s response will show us how badly they’ve been ...
United Nations, Hizballah, UNIFIL, Lebanon, Israel, Kofi Annan, Malloch Brown
The United Nations’ #2 man, Mark Malloch Brown, says it is “not helpful” to call Hizballah a terrorist organization: Interview with Mark Malloch Brown. What is troubling to me is the US and UK now carry with them a particular set of baggage in the Middle East. The challenge for them ...
United Nations, Hizballah, UNIFIL, Lebanon, Israel, Kofi Annan, Malloch Brown
Stephen Harper delivers a rebuke to UN chief Kofi Annan: Canada’s PM doubts Israeli bombing of UN outpost deliberate. OTTAWA (AFP) - Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper said an Israeli attack on a UN outpost that killed four, including a Canadian, was a “terrible tragedy” but not likely deliberate. At the same ...
Canada, Israel, Hizballah, Hezbollah, Lebanon, Kofi Annan, Stephen Harper
A UN Observer post was hit by an IAF airstrike today, killing at least two UN peacekeepers. Israel has said they “deeply regret” the incident and vowed to investigate. But UN Secretary General Kofi Annan already knows who to blame. Annan: IAF hit ‘apparently deliberate’. I thought the head of the United ...
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The highlight of Annan’s visit to Beirut was his meeting on Tuesday with Nasrallah, June 20, 2000. (photo: Reuters)
Meeting with Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi, United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan called on Hizballah to free the Israeli soldiers they kidnapped this morning. I’m sure they’ll get right on it. And he stressed the need for “moral clarity” in the Middle East. Then he got to the real business at ...
Iran seriously considering offer: Annan. GENEVA (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said on Thursday that Iran’s foreign minister had told him Tehran was seriously considering an offer of incentives aimed at defusing a row over its nuclear program. The United States, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany have offered Iran incentives, ...
Kofi Annan, United Nations, Iran, Ahmadinejad, Nuclear Proliferation
This must be International Crow-Eating Day. First Andrew Sullivan, now UN Secretary General Kofi Annan: Annan retracts remarks on IDF’s Gaza blast probe. (Hat tip: WriterMom.) United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan retracted remarks he made on Israel after the incident in which seven Palestinian family members died in Gaza. Annan said Israel’s ...
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan gets all up in John Bolton’s face, and agrees with the anti-American remarks made by his Deputy Secretary-General Mark Malloch Brown at a meeting of transnational progressives: Annan rejects US plea that he repudiate his deputy. UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan refused on ...