MONROVIA, August 25 (LINA) – Liberian President George Manneh Weah has paid tribute to the fallen former Secretary General of the United Nations, Kofi Atta Annan, describing his passing as ‘a loss to the rest of the world, not only to his family and country, Ghana.’
President Weah said the African continent has lost one of its greatest and finest sons in the death of Mr. Annan. The Ex-UN Chief Scribe died Saturday, August 18, at the age of 80.
“He was a great statesman and an outstanding diplomat of all times. He was my boss,” President Weah declared.
According to an Executive Mansion release, he spoke Thursday, August 23, when he led an array of government officials to the Ghanaian Embassy and United Nations Office to sign the books of condolence in memory of Mr. Annan.
President Weah observed that Annan’s death also presents an opportunity for the people of the world to sustain global peace in order to keep his legacy alive.
The late international Ghanaian diplomat was the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations, who served from January 1997 to December 2006, and a recipient of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize for his role to bring peace to the world.
Devastating conflicts in different parts of the world characterized Mr. Annan’s tenure at the helm of the world body.
