Kofi Annan Decision Quotations

The permanent mission of Cuba to the United Nations wishes to protest strongly at the arbitrary decision and to state that it disagrees completely with the pretexts given.

We are pressing ahead with our contingency planning and we hope to be ready to work with the African Union as we move forward to the implementation of the anticipated decision by the (UN) Security Council that we push ahead with the transition.

We support an all-inclusive process and we had hoped that this electoral process ... would pull the Iraqis together, ... It has not worked as we had hoped, but we still urge the parties to work together and I believe the reversal by the parliament of the decision last night would help the process.

I would use this opportunity once again to urge President Saddam Hussein and the Iraqi leadership to take the wise decision of resuming cooperation with UNSCOM and the atomic agency,

I think is it is very important that the Iraqi parliament reversed itself, because that decision was patently inappropriate and we made that clear to them,

I think the important thing, ... is the council stood together and insisted Iraq rescind its decision before any other reviews can be undertaken.

We have started contingency planning to be ready if and when the decision is taken for us to go in.

were supposed to use force only in self-defense, or by a collective decision that it was necessary to use force in order to keep the peace.

So we should be clear that in this situation, we will take the measures to make sure poor and rich have access to the medication and the vaccine required, ... And the decision should be taken ahead of time so that we don't have to quibble about it when the critical and the crisis moment arrive.

interim basis until I reach a decision on whom to nominate to undertake this function on a continuing basis.

I am not sure that they will be ready to refer (Iran) to the Security Council if the official report of the board has not been released and deliberated upon by the board and a decision taken.

I believe it is time for us to work together to try to stabilize Iraq, ... Our decisions should be unified rather than divisive, and I think we would not characterize the decision taken yesterday as unified.

The Iraqi people have made their decision and have approved the draft constitution,