General Assembly Appoints Seventh Secretary-General of United Nations
Title
General Assembly Appoints Seventh Secretary-General of United Nations
Date
17 December 1996
Description
The General Assembly appoints by acclamation Kofi Annan of Ghana as the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations, for a five-year term beginning 1 January 1997.Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Secretary-General of the UN, welcomes Kofi Annan, the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations, to the podium of the General Assembly Hall. Razali Ismail Malaysia, President of the fifty-first General Assembly is standing in the centre.
Type
Photographs
Coverage
Source
United Nations, UN Photo/Evan Schneider
Format
JPEG
Identifier
ANNANPHOTO0030
Rights
United Nations
Original Format
Photograph
Collection
Citation
“General Assembly Appoints Seventh Secretary-General of United Nations,” The Selected Papers of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan 1997-2006, accessed May 18, 2024, https://ccnydigitalscholarship.org/kofiannan/items/show/4713.