Kofi Annan Community Quotations

Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community.

no one in the international community defended what the Iranian president said and the Security Council itself issued a statement.

I appeal to the international community to provide immediate assistance, which is saving hundreds of lives everyday,

If the international community is going to make progress on this issue, I think it's essential we all come together, and work with the Russians who are playing a very constructive role, and I'm in touch with them,

I think (the US government is) positive to our assistance from the UN and the international community ... We are prepared to do whatever we can,

We know from experience that if the international community does not support these control measures now, the potential cost to the world will be much higher in the long term. Past outbreaks have already cost more than $10 billion in economic losses.

The whole of the international community has come together to reaffirm the integrity of Macedonia. They (rebels) should understand the methods they have used are neither an acceptable nor credible way of achieving their objectives.

Perhaps that, too, holds a lesson for us: the lesson that divisions in the human community are not so insurmountable as we feared; that gaps of misunderstanding and material well-being can be bridged; and that we can ... join hands and unite for a better world,

I know we will not be alone. We will be happy to work with other parts of the international community to support the efforts of President Bush and his administration, the American Red Cross , and other U.S. relief organizations who have been our partners in the past,

I know that I speak for the whole world in offering them my heartfelt sympathy and any assistance that the United Nations can give, ... We will be happy to work with other parts of the international community to support the efforts of President Bush and his administration, the American Red Cross, and other U.S. relief organizations who have been our partners in the past.

The international community has not forgotten you, you do have friends.

It will no doubt require long-term commitment on the part of the international community to see this process to a successful conclusion,

This is a huge, huge disaster, ... It is a race against time to save the lives of these people. And I would hope that the international community will respond and those with capacity will do everything possible to work with us and work with the Pakistani government.

In an age where community involvement and partnerships with civil society are increasingly being recognized as indispensable, there is clearly a growing potential for cooperative development and renewal worldwide.

I am often asked what can people do to become a good global citizen? I reply that it begins in your own community.

The international community . . . allows nearly 3 billion people almost half of all humanity to subsist on $2 or less a day in a world of unprecedented wealth.

Poverty devastates families, communities and nations. It causes instability and political unrest and fuels conflict.

There is no tool for development more effective than the education of girls and the empowerment of women... When women are fully involved, the benefits can be seen immediately: families are healthier; they are better fed; their income, savings, and reinvestment go up. And what is true of families is true of communities and, eventually, whole countries.

These divisions in the international community - the Syrians bear quite a lot of the blame, but we have enabled it by the divisions between us.