The former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan died

In Bern’s hospital, on Saturday night at the age of 80, the Gansky diplomat Kofi Annan, a former UN Secretary General, died. It is reported by Reuters.

The disease that caused death is not named in publication; It is only reported that she was short.

Annann was born on April 8, 1938 in a large city of Kumashi in an aristocratic family of the Akan people, which is the majority of the population of Ghana (at that time - the British colony of the Golden Coast). He graduated from the University of Science and Technology. Kvama Nkruma in his hometown; He received additional education in the USA and Switzerland. Since 1962, he worked with some breaks in the UN structures. In 1974-1976 - Director of Tourism of the Ghana.

Since 1992, Annan has been an assistant to the Deputy General Equipment of the UN, director of the department of peacekeeping operations, and in 1993 he headed the department, also in the rank of deputy agent. He participated in the resolution of a military conflict in the Balkans. In 1995-1996, five months held the post of special representative of the UN Secretary General in the former Yugoslavia.

The post of UN Secretary General Annan held two deadlines - from January 1, 1997 to December 31, 2006. In 2002, on his initiative, the World AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Fund was formed. Two years earlier, Annan launched the initiative of the UN Global Treaty, aimed at encouraging the social responsibility of business. In 2005, at the initiative of the Secretary General’s law, a new norm was introduced into international law - the obligation to protect. In accordance with her, the government should prevent war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide.

Annan conducted work with the governments of several Arab and other Islamic countries, seeking to ensure female equality in these states.

In 2003, the Secretary General condemned the military operation of the United States and Great Britain against the Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, which the UN refused to sanction.

In the mid-2000s, Annan was criticized by the Yidophobic statements of the Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad, who, in particular, publicly denied the Holocaust.

In 2001, Annan was awarded the Nobel Prize of the World, in particular for working in the field of human rights and the fight against AIDS in Africa.

After the departure from the post of Secretary General, the diplomat founded the Cofi Annan Foundation in Geneva, whose task is to promote peaceful development, observe human rights and the rule of law in all countries of the world. He headed the Elderly group founded in 2007, which unites authoritative politicians from around the world that completed his career.

In February - August 2012, he was a special representative of the UN and the League of the Arab states in Syria.