Secretary General Kofi Annan needs nothing short of a revolution to help salvage this organization, and in John R. Bolton, he may have just found his George Washington.
The involvement of Kofi Annan, the secretary general, is needed immediately to overcome the acrimonious atmosphere on the Security Council.
This highlights the intrinsic value of a complementary system that would allow for population-based monitoring of trends over time alongside a verified case-based reporting system, essential for negotiating with armed groups and armed forces, and for fulfilling the UN Secretary General's reporting needs.
"This report is important because it provides the most comprehensive picture of all Mozambican children – including the most vulnerable and isolated – and helps us understand how poverty affects children," said the Special Envoy of the UN Secretary General for Humanitarian Needs in Southern Africa James Morris.
In Georgia, the secretary general stressed the need for a more independent judiciary and for greater political transparency.
Mr. Powell told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation that Mr. Brahimi's proposal "reflects some very, very good thinking" and "a great deal of wisdom and experience" on his part, though he noted that the United Nations Secretary General, Kofi Annan, now needed to give his blessing.
For those who think the 21st century will belong to China, look where the Chinese are: They're in Africa!" Bono's active participation in founding Edun puts him and Ms. Hewson in a strong position to follow the code expressed by Ban Ki-moon, the U.N. secretary general: "Africa does not need charity, it needs investments and partnership".
Nato, according to its Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, "needs to spend the right amount of money on the right things".
Angel Gurría, OECD secretary general, said the government needed to do more to protect the poor from budget cuts and to encourage people back into work.
Donations to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria are now about $1.6 billion a year, barely 20percentt of what Secretary General Kofi Annan said was needed when he created the fund in 2001.
