January 30, 2007
Kofi Annan Wins Award
Via AP:
STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- Former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan and Darfur human rights activist Mossaad Mohamed Ali won the Olof Palme Prize on Tuesday for their work to protect human rights, peace and security.
The award will be presented at a ceremony in Stockholm in May, and the two winners will share the $75,000.
The Palme memorial fund board, which selects the winners, cited Annan's courage and involvement during his U.N. leadership, saying he had "given proof of the utmost integrity" while also defending U.N. principles and international law when those were challenged.
"His fight for human rights, and his way of stressing that development is a necessary part of the work for security, has left indelible traces in the world organization."
Proof of the utmost integrity? Was the Palme memorial fund board not paying attention to the whole Oil-for-Food mess?
I guess you could say Annan was upholding U.N. principles, which seem to be bureaucratic corruption and avoiding accountability.
What a joke.
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Absurd.
Posted by: jng at January 30, 2007 08:55 AMExtraordinary! All these rewards for such a destructive and amoral cretin! We should start calling it Jimmy Carter Syndrome!
Posted by: Gayle Miller at January 30, 2007 10:07 AM " while also defending U.N. principles and international law"
Yep he did that alright. Yep thats why human rights violations that were prevalent before he took control of the UN still exist now.What a slap in the face to all those that died while he protected them with international law by turning a blind eye!!!
