The Genèva Airport has announced that their protocol lounge will be named after former Secretary General of the United Nations, Kofi Atta Annan. Kofi Atta Annan was a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh Secretary General of the United Nations from January 1997 to December 2006.
The Ghanaian who won a Noble Peace Prize with the United Nations in 2001, was born in 1938, and died in 2018. Kofi Annan fought for international collaboration and peace even after his tenure as Secretary General had come to an end. He died at age 80, and while April 8, 2020 would have made him 82, the Geneva airport, as a way of paying the former Ghanaian Nobel man a well deserving tribute on his birthday, announced to name it’s protocol lounge “Estac Koffi Annan” after him.
Selected phrases from Kofi Annan’s speeches as well as images highlighting his work will make up the new decor of the protocol lounge, serving as a source of inspiration for world leaders who come to Geneva to negotiate at the United Nations and other international organizations. The inauguration of the Kofi Annan Space will take place as soon as measures to counter the coronavirus pandemic allow
Even after Kofi is no more, his work has not stop as the Kofi Annan Foundation which he founded in 2007 in Switzerland is still keeping of with the Former UN secretary General’s Vision and philosophy. In a statement, the Kofi Annan Foundation said,
the gesture honours a man who unceasingly fought for international cooperation to tackle global challenges, something which has never been more relevant than today, given the global crisis created by the COVID-19 pandemic.”
