Nobel Peace Prize in 2001

Hi everybody! Here I am again to speak you about more interesting things. This time, our teacher has given us the work to write an article. But the article won't be about any subject, first, we have collected the information in pairs about the Nobel prizes given the latest 12 years and every pair had a year to write about, organized in different groups concerning to the theme (Physics, chemistry, literature, peace, economics and physiology and medicine). Then, we have investigated the persons that interest us the most  and we have chosen one. Here you have the document where we have been collecting all the information.


In my case, the topic I have chosen is peace and the person which I'm going to speak about is Kofi Annan. Maybe, you have ever heard his name, at least one time or not, but he is a very well-known person. In other words, he may be world's best-loved political power player.

This man, served as the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1st January 1997 to 31 December 2006.  He worked on the maintenance of international peace and security, defending human rights, the rule of law, the universal values of equality, the tolerance and human dignity.

Before becoming a Secretary-General Annan had a lot of missions and solved or tried to solve many troubles in different countries; for example, in 1990 he facilitated the repatriation of international staff of Western countries from Iraq after it invaded Kuwait, after that, he led initial negotiations with Bagdad for the sale of oil to fund humanitarian relief and in 2000 he worked on the encouragement of Palestinians and Israelis to resolve their differences throught negotiations based on the idea of "land for peace".

In the years 2001 Kofi Annan received a Nobel Prize because his work for a better organized and more peaceful world. As I have said, he worked in favour of peace in many countries, although nowadays he doesn't work as a Secretary General he is still very famous and his work and his good acts are also still remembered.