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Kofi Annan
Foreword by Bernard Kouchner
Who really was Kofi Annan, Secretary General of the United Nations during ten years, from early 1997 to 2006 ? Adulated during his first years of mandate, in the point to see him awarded with the Nobel Peace Prize in 2001,he was then was put in the pillory by the American extreme right wing as soon as he dared to oppose to the one-sided decision of the United States in 2003 to invade Iraq in a war which he qualified " illegal ". For the first time, his close relations - his wife Nane, children, (among whom his son Kojo, reprimanded too for his role in the scandal " Oil against food "), his former co-workers and advisers, as well as ambassadors and the other all over the world known personalities having gone alongside next to him, speak. They do offer a realistic portrait and without compliance, not forgetting neither the strengths nor the weaknesses of such a discrete, public figure, hesitating and talented, prudent and audacious man that Kofi Annan was, one of the most engaged Secretary General of the UN history, a political man of courage and gifted with heart. They also reveal, through a precise description, his way through hell in the early Iraq war, and the amazing American power on the United Nations.
About the author
Frederic Eckhard has been the spokesman of Kofi Annan from 1997 to 2005.
- Author : Frederic Eckhard
- Language : French
- Publisher : Editions du Tricorne
- Web : http://www.tricorne.org
- Publication date : may 2009
- ISBN : 978-2829302930
- Paperback : 307 pages
- Price : 24 €
