June 19, 2013
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Kofi Atta Annan is a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations, from 1 January 1997 to 31 December 2006. Annan and the United Nations were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize for his founding of the Global AIDS and Health Fund to support developing countries in their struggle to care for their people.
From 23 February until 31 August 2012, Annan was the UN–Arab League Joint Special Representative for Syria, to help find a resolution to ongoing conflict there. Annan quit after becoming frustrated with the UN's lack of progress with regard to conflict resolution, stating that "when the Syrian people desperately need action, there continues to be finger-pointing and name-calling in the Security Council."
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![Mass killing in Syrian town of Tremseh shocks international community [New TV, Lebanon]](/images/image_cache/base-7160000/7160335/thumbnail.width=304,height=171,grow=1,crop=center.jpg?sig=83054abe8329584e08a4f41516adbdef "Demonstrators hold a placard during a protest against Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in Yabroud, near Damascus July 13, 2012. REUTERS/Shaam News Network/Handout")
![Annan to brief UN Security Council on Syria as violence claims 41 lives [BBC Arabic, UK]](/images/image_cache/base-6925000/6925129/thumbnail.width=304,height=171,grow=1,crop=center.jpg?sig=5dc156bbd78395ddb6c59fdd976c1e54)
