Rexhep Qosja: How Kofi Annan was expected in 1999 and what he said about Albanians

Former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has been separated from his life. He was visiting Kosovo after the Liberation War.

As a member of Kosovo's Acting Administrative Council, I had the opportunity to meet him during a visit he made to Pristina.

I'm publishing the impressions of this meeting in this blog-disconnected post, volume V III, which will soon be published, writes academic Rexhep Qosja.

13,10.1999

Shit.

Following Bernard Kouchner and General Rainhard, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan takes over.

Kofi Annan is shorter than television shows.

Kofi Annan has a very original view, and his background would have contributed to this originality, perhaps racial and perhaps unethnic.

In the color of his face are African, Asian, and European colors melted.

And in the shape of his head shall be molten the heads of three continents.

Kofi Annan's eyes look to him with worship for that extraordinary, popular union of different kinds.

Different things bring beauty, gift, wisdom, and discretion.

Kofi Annan's gifts and virtues will be shown in their completeness after he begins to speak English.

It's about general.

It's about human and political commonities.

Name our (violent) deportations, mention the camps in which we were located in Macedonia and Albania.

Then it speaks of tolerance, like great good for peace among men.

Then you talk about living together like the inevitability of today and of people's future.

His word was literally arranged, started and finished. The speech in which the purpose of his coming was contained is marked by voice accents, and you're speaking artistic.

I think: By the age I'm at, I haven't met to see such impressive political, state and intellectual figures with visual originality and oral authenticity. They didn't pick the UN Secretary General for nothing.