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KOFI ANNAN We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.
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KOFI ANNAN extremely concerned about the rapidly deteriorating situation.
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KOFI ANNAN to see if broader investigations can take place.
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KOFI ANNAN The balance must be redressed.
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KOFI ANNAN a new era of human rights in Iraq will now begin.
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KOFI ANNAN Iraq has a new opportunity to comply with all these relevant resolutions of the Security Council.
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KOFI ANNAN I am braced and we are all ready.
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KOFI ANNAN If they are not compensated, they are not going to tell you whether their birds are sick, ... If oth...
KOFI ANNAN well beyond the scope of the powers vested in the Great Council.
KOFI ANNAN The big item missing is non-proliferation and disarmament. This a real disgrace.
KOFI ANNAN Remembering is a necessary rebuke to those who say the Holocaust never happened or has been exaggera...
KOFI ANNAN guilty of no wrongdoing.
KOFI ANNAN to ensure an end to impunity.
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KOFI ANNAN when it comes to operations on that continent, we tend to do it on the cheap.
KOFI ANNAN No cause can justify such acts of terror,
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KOFI ANNAN The president has been asking me for the last three years to come, I am happy to be among you.
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KOFI ANNAN I don't like hypocrisy-even in international relations.
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KOJO ANNAN I admire my father greatly.
KOJO ANNAN I would never play any role in anything that involves the United Nations for obvious reasons.
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KOJO ANNAN I have never participated directly or indirectly in any business related to the United Nations.
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