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Former UN chief Kofi Annan dies at 80

Updated: 2018-08-18 17:42

United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan delivers an address during a press conference following a meeting between the UN, the Iraqi Governing Council and the Coalition Provisional Authority at the United Nations headquarters, 19 January 2004.

Annan served two terms as UN Secretary-General in New York from 1997-2006 and retired in Geneva and later lived in a Swiss village in the nearby countryside.

"In many ways, Kofi Annan was the United Nations. He rose through the ranks to lead the organization into the new millennium with matchless dignity and determination," UN.

Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, whom Annan had chosen to head the UN refugee agency, said in a statement.

As UN boss he was linked to peace efforts to reunite the divided island of Cyprus. He submitted a reunification blueprint for Cyprus which was rejected in a referendum by Greek Cypriots in 2004.

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