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Kofi Atta Annan (born 8 April 1938) is a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations from January 1997 to December 2006. Annan and the United Nations were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize "for their work for a better organized and more peaceful world." He is the founder and the Chairman of the Kofi Annan Foundation, as well as being the chairman of The Elders, a group founded by Nelson Mandela.
From 23 February until 31 August 2012, Annan was the UN–Arab League Joint Special Representative for Syria, to help find a resolution to ongoing conflict there. Annan quit after becoming frustrated with the UN's lack of progress with regard to conflict resolution, stating that "when the Syrian people desperately need action, there continues to be finger-pointing and name-calling in the Security Council". He has been involved in several humanitarian projects and won several awards including the Kora All Africa Music Lifetime Achievement Award in 2001.
Actors: Jean-Hugues Anglade (actor), Philip Akin (actor), Roger Spottiswoode (director), Mark Antony Krupa (actor), Laszlo Barna (producer), Tom McCamus (actor), David Hirschfelder (composer), Deborah Kara Unger (actress), Roy Dupuis (actor), Michel Arcand (editor), Lynn Beaudin (miscellaneous crew), Michael Donovan (writer), Michael Donovan (producer), Paule Girardin (miscellaneous crew), Danielle Depeyre (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: In the end of 1993, the Canadian General Romeo Dallaire is assigned to lead the United Nation troops in Rwanda. In 1994, when the genocide of the Tutsis by the Hutus begins, General Dallaire gives his best effort to help the people in Rwanda, inclusive negotiating with the Tutsi rebels, the Hutu army and the Interhamwe militia. However, he fights against bureaucracy and lack of interest from the United Nations and witnesses the West World ignoring and turning back any sort of support, inclusive USA opposing in the security council of UN to any type of help.
Keywords: based-on-autobiography, based-on-memoir, betrayal, canadian-military, canadian-soldier, cnn-reporter, genocide, rwanda, united-nations, united-nations-blue-beret