Kofi Annan.

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Kofi Atta Annan, GCMG (born 8 April 1938) is a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh Secretary-General of the United Na

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$Former United Nations Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, speaks at the \'G8 Open for Growth - Trade, Tax and Transparency\' conference at Lancaster House in central London June 15, 2013. In January 2013 the UK assumed the one-year Presidency of the G8. Leaders from Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, USA and UK will meet at Lough Erne in Northern Ireland for the G8 Summit 17-18 June.$

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$A framed photograph of former South African president and anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela shaking hands with former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan (R) is seen on Mandela\'s desk at the newly renovated Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory in Houghton, Johannesburg, June 11, 2013. A number of documents, including Mandela\'s first official passport and letters he wrote to his family and friends while he was a prisoner at Robben Island, are kept at the centre. Mandela remained in a \$

Former United Nations Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, speaks at the 'G8 Open for Growth - Trade, Tax and Transparency' conference at Lancaster House in central London June 15, 2013. In January 2013 the UK assumed the one-year Presidency of the G8. Leaders from Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, USA and UK will meet at Lough Erne in Northern Ireland for the G8 Summit 17-18 June.

A framed photograph of former South African president and anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela shaking hands with former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan (R) is seen on Mandela's desk at the newly renovated Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory in Houghton, Johannesburg, June 11, 2013. A number of documents, including Mandela's first official passport and letters he wrote to his family and friends while he was a prisoner at Robben Island, are kept at the centre. Mandela remained in a "serious but stable" condition in a Pretoria hospital on Tuesday after four days of treatment for a lung infection, the government said.

French President Jacques Chirac (R) greets Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika next to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan (C), on the sidelines of the 58th General Assembly at the United Nations Headquarters in New York 23 September 2003.

African leaders pose with the G8 leaders 27 June, 2002 at the second day of the G8 Summit site Kananaskis, Alberta, Canada. Front row, left to right are: South African President Thabo Mbeki, French President Jacques Chirac, Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, Canadian PM Jean Chretien, United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan, Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika and Senegal President Abdoulaye Wade. Back row left to right are: Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar, Japanese PM Junichiro Koizumi, British PM Tony Blair, Russian President Vladimir Putin, US President George Bush, German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi and European Commission President Romano Prodi.

French President Jacques Chirac (L) speaks with Algerian counterpart Abdellaziz Bouteflika, 21 March 2002, at a meeting on African development aside the United Nations conference on global aid to the poor in Monterrey. World leaders called for a global mobilization against poverty but got a stark warning from UN chief Kofi Annan that the campaign could flop if they fail to cough up more money.

Chairperson of the Africa Progress Panel and former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan (2nd L) speaks during a press conference where the Africa Progress Panel Report is released, during the third and final day of the World Economic Forum Meeting on Africa, at the Cape Town International Convention Centre on May 10, 2013, in Cape Town.

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