Kofi Annan: “Syria should withdraw all its troops from Lebanon before parliamentary elections there next month.”

Kofi Annan cautioned against outside military intervention in Syria saying it could worsen an already precarious situation.

There is no prospect for a stable outcome in Syria so long as Bashar al-Assad is in power.

What is clear is that Africa and the least developed countries which are not so much responsible for the problem of climate change bear the greatest blunt.

Kofi Annan has been a friend of dictators throughout. I mean, there is something he says which is very remarkable as he prepared for his mission. He says we have to be careful we don't introduce a medicine that's worst than the disease.