NEWSMAKER: KOFI ANNAN DECEMBER 16, 1996 TRANSCRIPT The most impossible job in the world, is how the U.N. secretary-general elect describes his future job. After months of rancorous debate among the Security Council members, the U.N. General Assembly has agreed upon Ghana's Kofi Annan as the replacement for out-going Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali. After a background report on Annan's ...

KOFI A. ANNAN COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY CAMBRIDGE, MASS., JUNE 6, 1997 Thank you, Dr. Gray, for your most gracious welcome. I am honored and pleased to have been asked to speak to you on this grand occasion and in these familiar surroundings. The Boston area boasts of several excellent institutions of higher learning. But there is only one MIT. Mr. President, ...

KOFI ANNAN Oct. 18, 1999 U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan talks about the role of the United Nations in humanitarian aid, Kosovo, East Timor, Africa and the United States' monetary responsibility to the international organization. Online Special: Kofi Annan NewsHour interviews with Kofi Annan March 4, 1998 Annan talks about the deal he negotiated with President Saddam Hussein July 16, 1997 ...