Bangkok--Jan 30--UNISBKK
'THE UNITED NATIONS CANNOT STAND STILL, BECAUSE THE THREATS TO HUMANITY DO NOT STAND STILL', UN SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS DAVOS WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM
Following is the address, as delivered today by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, to the plenary session of the World Economic Forum: A New Mindset for the United Nations, in Davos, Switzerland Some of you may remember me coming to Davos nine years ago, as a freshly minted Secretary-General.
Since then, I have attended all but three of your annual meetings --
including the memorable one in 2002, when you came to show confidence in
New York, after the attack on the World Trade Center.
So I did not hesitate one minute, before accepting, when Klaus kindly invited me to come here once more, at the beginning of my last year in office. And I was also very happy to accept the title he suggested for this session -- "A New Mindset for the United Nations".
Why? Because it expresses something I have striven to achieve throughout these nine years, and something in which Davos itself has played a part. End.