who is the previous un secretary general[before cofi annan?
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boutros-boutros ghali?
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Ah, Kofi. Before being SG, Kofi was in charge of UN peacekeeper forces. While there he kept getting urgent messages from the UN troops in Rwanda. He promptly ignored them, and 800,000 people were brutally murdered. What a hero Kofi is.\n\nAnd in reviewing the atrocities in Darfur, Kofi has seen no genocide, despite over 1,000,000 blacks being killed by the Arab Muslim government and its agents. Heck, he has no problem with Sudan being on the UN Human Rights commission. And, he seems to have no problem with the fact that over $25 billion was kicked back to Saddam in the UN Oil-for-Blood Money scandal.\n\nSo, as far as I can see, Kofi is a typical useless tea-sipping corrupt and uncaring sack of manure.\n\nThat's why Clinton loved him so much. So alike.
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A top and respected figure from Malaysia. Remember that it is now the turn of Asia to be the UN's SecGen. And this is endorsed mostly by asian and middle eastern countries including african nations.
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There have been seven since 1945. Here they are in order.\n\nTrygve Halvdan Lie 2 February 1946 – November 1952 Norway Resigned \n \nDag Hammarskjöld 10 April 1953 – 18 September 1961 Sweden Died in a plane crash in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) \n \nU Thant 30 November 1961 – 31 December 1971 Burma (now Myanmar) Acting Secretary-General from 3 November 1961 to 30 November 1962 \n \nKurt Waldheim 1 January 1972 – 31 December 1981 Austria Chinese veto for his third term \n \nJavier Pérez de Cuéllar 1 January 1982 – 31 December 1991 Peru Refused a third term \n \nBoutros Boutros-Ghali 1 January 1992 – 31 December 1996 Egypt American veto of his second term  \n\nKofi Annan 1 January 1997 – present Ghana
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Yes, UN is outdated and could not survive without the U.S.A. The big fix is that the security council needs to be re-constituted with the following most populous and influential nations in the 21st Century:\n\nUSA\nChina\nRussia\nIndia\nEuropean Union\nIndonesia\nBrazil
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Buddha was. As was current leader of the UN Kofi Annan. And a former first Lady, Betty Ford was too. \n\nOh, and the bass player from Slipknot.
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Go to the link below.  The only one missing is the United States, the leader of which at present (unfortunately) is George Bush.
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India\nchief of state: President A.P.J. Abdul KALAM (since 26 July 2002)\n\nSri Lanka\nchief of state: President Chandrika Bandaranaike KUMARATUNGA (since 12 November 1994)
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Yes and you can bet UN resolutions would get reinforced, instead of the present UN leader that has no backbone and will not take a stand!!!!! Bush does what is right not what is popular and that is what the UN needs!!!!
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He isn't. Keep in mind that it is the United Security Council that is making decisions about what happens on a global level, not just the President of the United States.
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John Kofi Agyekum Kufuor (born December 8, 1938) is the current president of Ghana, since January 7, 2001. He ran for election in 2000 and won, succeeding Jerry Rawlings, who defeated him when he previously ran for President in the election in 1996, and having the first peaceful transition of power in Ghana since the country's independence was declared.
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Kofi Annan has been the Secretary General of the United Nations for 9 years.  He began his term on January 1, 1997 after being elected on Dec. 13, 1996.
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See this page:\n\nhttp://www.un.org/Docs/sc/unsc_members.html
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TRY THIS LINK\nhttp://www.un.org/
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I don't think there is a United Nations president; if you mean the first secretary-general, it was  Trygve Halvden Lie, a Norwegian politician who held the post from from 1946 to 1953.
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The Secretariat is the body of the United Nations that does the day to day work of the organization.  It is headed by the Secretary-General, who currently is Kofi Annan, who comes from Ghana originally.
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