The United Nations Foundation appear today that Kofi Annan, the above Secretary-General of the United Nations and champ of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize, has abutting the Foundation’s Board of Directors.
Washington, D.C. (Vocus/PRWEB ) October 24, 2007 -- The United Nations Foundation appear today that Kofi Annan, the above Secretary-General of the United Nations and champ of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize, has abutting the Foundation’s Board of Directors.
The United Nations Foundation
Kofi Annan is one of the world’s abundant moral leaders, was a abundant Secretary-General and is a active advocate for the United Nations’ life-saving plan on account of accord and progress He was present at the conception of the United Nations Foundation, and we are accustomed that he has acclimatized the allurement to accompany the Board. I am captivated to accompany Ted Turner and the arresting associates of the UN Foundation Board to advice advanced the UN’s plan about the world. The United Nations is the world’s belvedere for analytic the abundant challenges of the 21st aeon – from war to HIV/AIDS, animal rights to all-around altitude change The UN Foundation allows humans from all sectors – from all walks of activity – to get complex in allowance break these problems. I am admiring that my account on the Foundation’s Board will acquiesce me to abide to accord to the UN’s mission of all-around peace, prosperity, opportunity, and justice. One of the hallmarks of his administration as Secretary-General was aperture the UN to added cooperation with business and noncombatant society. We attending advanced to continuing to plan with him to appoint governments, NGOs, corporations, and added experts in analytic the abundant all-around challenges adverse the world “Kofi Annan is one of the world’s abundant moral leaders, was a abundant Secretary-General and is a active advocate for the United Nations’ life-saving plan on account of accord and progress,” said Ted Turner, Founder and Chairman of the UN Foundation’s Board of Directors. “He was present at the conception of the United Nations Foundation, and we are accustomed that he has acclimatized the allurement to accompany the Board.”
“I am captivated to accompany Ted Turner and the arresting associates of the UN Foundation Board to advice advanced the UN’s plan about the world. The United Nations is the world’s belvedere for analytic the abundant challenges of the 21st aeon – from war to HIV/AIDS, animal rights to all-around altitude change,” said Kofi Annan. “The UN Foundation allows humans from all sectors – from all walks of activity – to get complex in allowance break these problems. I am admiring that my account on the Foundation’s Board will acquiesce me to abide to accord to the UN’s mission of all-around peace, prosperity, opportunity, and justice.”
“One of the hallmarks of his administration as Secretary-General was aperture the UN to added cooperation with business and noncombatant society. We attending advanced to continuing to plan with him to appoint governments, NGOs, corporations, and added experts in analytic the abundant all-around challenges adverse the world,” said Timothy E. Wirth, President of the UN Foundation.
Kofi Annan was Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1997 through 2006. He was a UN adept who took his aboriginal job with the alignment in 1962 and captivated a amount of posts, including Deputy Director to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (1980-83) and Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping (1995-96). In 2001, Secretary-General Annan and the United Nations were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their plan in all-around accord and cooperation. He was succeeded on January 1, 2007, by South Korean Ban Ki-moon.
Former Secretary-General Annan is a built-in of Ghana. He accelerating from Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1961. He was a adolescent at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management from 1971 to 1972 and accustomed a Master of Science degree.
Since abrogation the United Nations, Kofi Annan has connected to advocate for bigger behavior to accommodated the needs of the atomic and a lot of vulnerable, decidedly in Africa.
About the UN Foundation
The UN Foundation, created in 1998 with administrator and philanthropist Ted Turner’s celebrated $1 billion allowance to abutment UN causes and activities, builds and accouterments public-private partnerships that abode the world’s a lot of acute problems. Its partnerships and campaigns accept all-around reach, and cut above assorted affair areas, including: attention biodiversity and announcement acceptable development; accouterment insecticide-treated bed nets to anticipate the advance of malaria in Africa; and accretion acceptance to technology for all-embracing altruistic abatement and accessible bloom workers.
Members of the United Nations Foundation Board of Directors are: Her Majesty Queen Rania Al-Abdullah of Jordan; Kofi Annan, above Secretary-General of the United Nations; Gro Harlem Brundtland, Director-General Emeritus, World Health Organization; Ruth Cardoso, Chair, Comunidade Solidaria; N.R. Narayana Murthy, Chairman and Chief Mentor of Infosys Technologies Limited; Hisashi Owada, Judge, International Court of Justice; Emma Rothschild, Professor of History at Harvard University and Fellow of King's College, University of Cambridge, Director of the Joint Center for History and Economics; Nafis Sadik, Special Advisor to the UN Secretary-General; Ted Turner (Chairman), Chairman, Turner Enterprises; Timothy E. Wirth, President, United Nations Foundation and Better World Fund; Andrew Young, Chairman, Good Works International; Yuan Ming, Director of the Institute of International Relations at Beijing University; and Muhammad Yunus, Founder, Grameen Bank of Bangladesh.
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