2006 will be Kofi Annan's last year as UN Secretary General - and now already he is applauded by all sides. ... German UN ambassador (Gunter) Pleuger: "Kofi Annan is the most impressive and most successful of the five Secretaries General I worked with ... the UN is equated with the person Kofi Annan."
Martina Buttler, New York Radio Correspondent for ARD (Largest German Public Broadcasting Organization)
Also, from a strictly German point of view, his preference for a Merc is quite impressive...
The best German diplomacy since von Ribbentrop carved up Poland with Molotov.
Posted by: PacRim Jim | December 30, 2005 at 08:47 AM
The tantrum of Kofi was absolutely hilarious. Priceless !
I was laughing tears.
@PacRim Jum
We've just done something like the Hitler-Stalin pact.
Buying Russian Gas that isn't transported through Poland in order to help Putin bully the Polish like the Ukrainians.
Posted by: German.Will | December 30, 2005 at 11:10 AM
"Kofi Annan is the most impressive and most successful of the five Secretaries General I worked with". Well, at least with Kofi, one can be certain that there's no embarrassing Nazi past.
Posted by: Panther33 | December 30, 2005 at 02:49 PM
@German.Will: Touché. I fear the more we learn about the Gazprom deal, the more it's going to stink.
Posted by: Scout | December 30, 2005 at 05:01 PM
"the UN is equated with the person Kofi Annan."
Ja, it certainly was impressive how Kofi Annan in 2003 chose Germany as the place where to say "I as a Christian" the only time in his hitherto career. But not impressive enough to treat him as if he was the Pope and the UN the Church. *Yawn.*
Posted by: FranzisM | January 01, 2006 at 06:33 PM