Opening Europe to Well-Managed Migration
Remarks by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan
I am deeply touched that you have honored my friend and colleague, Sergio Vieira de Mello, and the many other UN staff who have lost their lives in working for peace in the world. I am proud to accept the Andrei Sakharov prize in memory of them. This Prize for Freedom of Thought is not only a worthy recognition of the ultimate sacrifice that they made in the cause of peace. It is also a welcome acknowledgement of the kinds of people they were. The brave men and women we lost in Baghdad on 19 August UN staff and…