FILE PHOTO - United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan ponders a point at a news conference, before addressing South Africa's parliament in Cape Town March 14, 2006. Annan is in South Africa as part of a five-nation African tour. REUTERS/Mike Hutchings/File Photo
GENEVA (Reuters) - Kofi Annan, the former United Nations Secretary-General and Nobel Peace Prize laureate who died on Saturday, will be remembered as a dedicated humanitarian whose career was tarnished by ugly conflicts that spun out of control.
Annan was unable to bring peace to Syria and bring to rest the failures of diplomacy in Rwanda, Bosnia, Darfur, Cyprus, Somalia and Iraq, which are likely to drown out the plaudits for his softly spoken mediation and efforts to eradicate poverty and AIDS that won him the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize.
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