Kofi Annan Seen Quotations

I would be surprised if the United States would want to place themselves ... in that situation, of being the ones who are seen to be against the interests of the poor, as being the ones who want to ignore the needs and the human dignity of others,

Obviously we seen to be at the end of the road here,

I believe we should be seen as taking concrete steps to achieve the objective of two states living side by side in peace and security in three years' time,

Whether our challenge is peacemaking, nation-building, democratization or responding to natural or man-made disaster, we have seen that even the strongest amongst us cannot succeed alone.

The withdrawal from Gaza should be seen as a first step, because we also have to deal with the issue of the West Bank.

If the new commitment to intervention in the face of extreme suffering is to retain the support of the world's peoples, it must be -- and must be seen to be -- fairly and consistently applied to, irrespective of region or nation. Humanity, after all, is indivisible,

I have never seen such utter destruction mile after mile.

At the same time, we have seen Iraqi prisoners disgracefully abused.

In the midst of the road map process, when each party should be making good-faith confidence-building gestures, the barrier's construction in the West Bank cannot, in this regard, be seen as anything but a deeply counterproductive act,