The Secretary-General attended a luncheon hosted by the Secretary-General of the League of Arab States in honour of the participants of the Cairo conference on Libya.
Because of his injuries he was given a desk job during the war, for a period as secretary to a general.
Mr Annan, a former UN secretary general who has acted as a diplomatic troubleshooter in several long-running conflicts, said he hoped to "help bring an end to the violence and human rights abuses, and promote a peaceful solution to the Syrian crisis".
Labour peer Lord Robertson of Port Ellen, a former Secretary General of Nato, said membership created a "huge dilemma" for the SNP.
About 200 kings, princes, sultans, sheikhs and traditional leaders had been due to attend the meeting in Kampala on Tuesday to elect a secretary general for the eastern zone of the organisation, the paper says.
For the first time, however, an 80-strong group of economically liberal politicians in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), led by Hidenao Nakagawa, a former LDP secretary-general, is promoting a bold immigration policy.
Ban Ki-moon condemned the bombardment and called on Sudan to cease all hostilities immediately, a spokesman for the secretary-general said in a statement.
This has traditionally been a feeble body of pen-pushers under a mild-mannered secretary-general, usually a senior regional official rewarded with the post as the crowning boondoggle in a career of not rocking the boat.
The Director-General held a private meeting with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in the wake of his trip to Asia.
For the past few months, diplomacy has focused on a plan, overseen by Kofi Annan, a former UN secretary-general, to negotiate an effective ceasefire under a team of monitors and to set up an interim unity government.
And unless Kenya makes progress soon in setting up a court to try those responsible for the horrific post-election violence in 2007, Kofi Annan, a former UN secretary-general who helped mediate an end to the violence, will hand a list of names to the ICC for prosecution.
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Mr. Eide previously served with the United Nations as Special Envoy of the Secretary-General to undertake a comprehensive review of Kosovo in 2005 and as Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1997-1998.
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Since September, the council has had a new secretary-general, Walter Schwimmer, an Austrian.
Lord Robertson, a former Nato secretary general, has called Germany "irresponsible" for wanting to remain under America's nuclear umbrella while exporting the obligation of maintaining it to other European states.
As a result, the Secretary-General has now decided to set up a Scientific Advisory Board, bringing together eminent specialists from natural sciences, social and human sciences, and engineering, representing diverse backgrounds and regions.
For, according to a statement by the Secretary-General of the United Nations this weekend, in a world that can produce enough food to feed everyone, nearly a billion people will go hungry today.
After a meeting with the United Nations country team, the Secretary-General attended a dinner with the other principal members of the Quartet and had a bilateral meeting with Tony Blair, the Quartet Representative.
In a separate development, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said he was waiting for the Syrian government to allow a team of chemical weapons experts into the country for an expanded investigation following an attack on a village outside Aleppo in March.
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The present government of national unity was put together by Kofi Annan, a former UN secretary-general, after the election.
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Mr Bamba's comments echo a recommendation by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.
Negotiations between representatives of the incumbent, Mwai Kibaki, and his aggrieved challenger, Raila Odinga, continued under the aegis of Kofi Annan, a former UN secretary-general.
If the Moderates win, the plan is to keep Barry Reamsbottom, the outgoing general secretary and a Moderate, in the job until 2004 and sideline Mr Serwotka.
Iraq sent a letter to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan saying it would "deal" with the resolution passed unanimously in the Security Council last week that all weapons of mass destruction must be declared and inspected.
Western governments, working closely with the Turks and Qataris and the Arab League, still hope against hope that the stalled peace plan presented in April by Kofi Annan, a former UN secretary-general, will regain some traction.
"As the Government goes down the route of championing vocational education they need to make their mind up as to whether all qualifications are of value, or if it is simply particular academic subjects which carry weight when judging a school, " said general secretary Christine Blower.
"The political foundations from Germany are making an important contribution to the development of democratic structures, the building of a state based on law and the encouragement of civil society, " CDU general secretary Hermann Groehe said in a statement.
Mr Day, who was once a traffic sergeant at Oakham police station and general-secretary of the Police Cycling Federation, was a fitness enthusiast.
As a result of the advice provided to him, the Secretary-General decided to set up a Scientific Advisory Board, bringing together eminent specialists from natural sciences, social and human sciences, and engineering, and from diverse backgrounds and regions.
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