Kofi Annan, who reset U.N., died at 80 years
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His death, at the hospital there, was confirmed by his family in a statement issued by the Kofi Annan Foundation, based in Switzerland. He said he died after a brief illness but did not state the cause.
Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2001, Mr Annan was the first black African to lead the UN Organization, doing so for two consecutive five-year periods beginning in 1997 - a decade of chaos that challenged a broad body and redefined its place of changing the world.
The emblem as part of the United Nations' most concentrated weakness of its greatest aspirations, Mr Annan was the first secretary general to be elected from international civil servants who formed the organizational bureaucracy.
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And, at least, he was praised for persuading Washington to open up the delinquency indicted for dissatisfaction with the United Nations voiced by American conservatives.
However, the duration is rarely released. In 1998, Mr Annan wandered to Baghdad to consult directly with Saddam Hussein on the United Nations weapons inspection status, winning a temporary pause in a long battle with the West's will but raised questions about his decision to shake hands - and also smoke cigars - with a dictator .
In fact, Mr Annan called for an attack on Iraq in 2003 and violated the law and suffered severe personal losses when a trusted ally and meeting, Brazilian official Sérgio Vieira de Mello, his deputy in Baghdad, died in a suicide bomber bomb in August 2003 struck the UN office there, killing many civilians.
The attack prompted complaints that Annan did not feel the danger faced by his subordinates after Mr Hussein's expulsion.
Although his admirers praised his marvelous, charismatic and measured approach, Mr Annan was hammered by a disability that he described as a "secular pope" - a moral authority figure gave up in addition to persuasion to uphold the high standards he stated.
As secretary general, Mr. Annan, like all his predecessors and successors, did not order parts of the army or free sources of income. Finally, his writings were expanded only to the extent that the great powers that included the Security Council - the highest executive body of U.N - enabled him to walk.
Later, these parts deepened, reaching a nadir in the attack on Iraq. More than just his objection, the campaign continued on the American and British premise intended to disarm the Iraqi regime's chemical weapons, which did not have or at least, were never found.
Iraq also brought shame to the home when a report began in 2004 that Mr Annan's son, Kojo Annan, worked at Cotecna Inspection Services, a Geneva-based company that had won a decent contract in a broad humanitarian program, known as oil for food, supervised by the United Nations in Iraq.
The commission, led by Paul A. Volcker, former chairman of the Federal Reserve, concluded that the secretary general did not influence the contract but also did not aggressively investigate when questions were raised.
Mr Annan said he took the commission's findings as liberation, but his reputation suffered, especially in the eyes of enemies in Washington.
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