Former President John Agyekum Kufuor has described the late former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan as the best person to have served the world body so far.
In an exclusive interview with GBC’s Bubu Klinogo and Valerie Danso, Mr. Kufuor said Mr. Annan had served Africa and for that matter the world well.
He said Mr. Annan was a personal friend, adding that just three weeks before he died, they were supposed to have attended a programme together here in Ghana.
Mr Kofi Annan died at a hospital in Switzerland, Saturday morning after short illness. He was 80. He served as the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations from January 1997 to December 2006. Annan and the UN were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize. He is the founder and chairman of the Kofi Annan Foundation, as well as chairman of The Elders, an international organization founded by Nelson Mandela.
