“It was his character and mettle, his old-world charisma, unrufflability and monastic mien, that made him an exceptional figure, particularly now in an age of populism and bullhorn rhetoric.
In his first term as secretary-general, from 1997-2002, his patience earned him the sobriquet the “secular pope”, although he insisted in private that his self-control was learned, not innate. “Sometimes I walk into a situation and know someone’s going to provoke me and I just simply refuse to be provoked,” – Thats the man KOFI ANNAN.
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