UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan
Secretary-General Kofi AnnanUnited NationsKofi Annan is the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations, having served since January 1, 1997. The following is excerpted from a November 20, 2003, statement by the Secretary-General to the Security Council on the closure of the Oil-for-Food Program.The Council meets today to mark the completion of one of the largest, most complex, and most unusual tasks it has ever entrusted to the Secretariat — the only humanitarian program ever to have been funded entirely from resources belonging to the nation it was designed to help. The mandate you gave us — to assume temporary custody…
