SECRETARY-GENERAL VISITS INDONESIA TO ATTEND ASIAN-AFRICAN SUMMIT 2005

(21 - 25 April 2005)

Secretary-General Kofi Annan travelled to Indonesia to attend the Asian-African Summit in Jakarta and the Commemoration of the 1955 Asian-African Conference in Bandung, Indonesia. Addressing the Asian-African Summit as it marked the fiftieth anniversary of the landmark Bandung declaration, Secretary-General Kofi Annan urged leaders from the two continents "to be as innovative and as visionary as your forebears were" by supporting his agenda for UN reform. "The number one priority in my report is an all-out global effort to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015," he said, referring to the publication of "In Larger Freedom," which contains proposals for change at the world body and calls for new commitments by the international community to deal with a broad range of development challenges. .

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Secretary-General Kofi Annan (second from left) addressing the Asian-African Summit. From left to right: Jean Ping, President of the fifty-ninth session of the General Assembly; Mr. Annan; Hassan Wirajuda, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia; and Rezian Ishar Jenie, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Indonesia to the United Nations. (UN Photo #NICA 72194 by Eskinder Debebe)

A wide view of the plenary hall of the Jakarta Convention Center, where the Asian-African Summit is held. (UN Photo #NICA 72200 by Eskinder Debebe)

A group photo of the participants of the Asian-African Summit 2005 after the opening ceremony. Secretary-General Kofi Annan (front row, centre). (UN Photo #NICA 72201 by Eskinder Debebe)

Secretary-General Kofi Annan holding a press conference at the Jakarta Convention Center in Indonesia. (UN Photo #NICA 72325 by Eskinder Debebe)

Secretary-General Kofi Annan (right) meets with Abdelaziz Bouteflika, President of Algeria. (UN Photo #NICA 72195 by Eskinder Debebe)

Secretary-General Kofi Annan (left) meets with King Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev of Nepal, in Jakarta, Indonesia. (UN Photo #NICA 72202 by Eskinder Debebe)

Secretary-General Kofi Annan (right) meets with Olusegun Obasanjo, President of Nigeria, in Jakarta, Indonesia. (UN Photo #NICA 72204 by Eskinder Debebe)

Secretary-General Kofi Annan (left) meets with Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (right), President of the Republic of Indonesia, in Jakarta, Indonesia. (UN Photo #NICA 72205 by Eskinder Debebe)

Secretary-General Kofi Annan (left) meets with Thaksin Shinawatra (right), Prime Minister of Thailand, in Jakarta, Indonesia. (UN Photo #NICA 72206 by Eskinder Debebe)

Secretary-General Kofi Annan (right) meets with Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, President of the Republic of the Philippines, in Jakarta, Indonesia. (UN Photo #NICA 72207 by Eskinder Debebe)

Secretary-General Kofi Annan (right) meets with Junichiro Koizumi, Prime Minister of Japan, in Jakarta, Indonesia. (UN Photo #NICA 72208 by Eskinder Debebe)

Secretary-General Kofi Annan (left) meets with Tran Duc Luong, President of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam, in Jakarta, Indonesia. (UN Photo #NICA 72209 by Eskinder Debebe)

Secretary-General Kofi Annan (right) meets with Pervez Musharraf, President of Pakistan, in Jakarta, Indonesia. (UN Photo #NICA 72210 by Eskinder Debebe)

Secretary-General Kofi Annan (left) meets with Emomali Rakhmonov, President of the Republic of Tajikistan, in Jakarta, Indonesia. (UN Photo #NICA 72320 by Eskinder Debebe)

Secretary-General Kofi Annan (right) meets with Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan, in Jakarta, Indonesia. (UN Photo #NICA 72321 by Eskinder Debebe)

Secretary-General Kofi Annan (right) meets with Natsagiyn Bagabandi, President of Mongolia, in Jakarta, Indonesia. (UN Photo #NICA 72322 by Eskinder Debebe)

Secretary-General Kofi Annan (right) meets with Than Shwe, President of the Union of Myanmar, in Jakarta, Indonesia. (UN Photo #NICA 72324 by Eskinder Debebe)

Secretary-General Kofi Annan (right) meets with Omer Hassan A. Al-Bashir, President of the Republic of the Sudan, in Jakarta, Indonesia. (UN Photo #NICA 72326 by Eskinder Debebe)

Secretary-General Kofi Annan (right) meets today with John Agyekum Kufuor, President of Ghana, in Jakarta, Indonesia. (UN Photo #NICA 72327 by Eskinder Debebe)

Secretary-General Kofi Annan (right) meets today with Thabo Mbeki, President of the Republic of South Africa, in Jakarta, Indonesia. (UN Photo #NICA 72330 by Eskinder Debebe)

Secretary-General Kofi Annan (right) meets today with Dato' Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Prime Minister of Malaysia, in Jakarta, Indonesia. (UN Photo #NICA 72331 by Eskinder Debebe)

Secretary-General Kofi Annan (left) meets today with Hu Jintao, President of the People's Republic of China, in Jakarta, Indonesia. (UN Photo #NICA 72332 by Eskinder Debebe)

Secretary-General Kofi Annan (second row, centre) departs after witnessing the signing ceremony of the Declaration of the new Asian-African Strategic Partnership in Bandung, Indonesia. (UN Photo #NICA 72335 by Eskinder Debebe)

Secretary-General Kofi Annan and Mrs. Nane Annan participate in a walk, repeating the historic ceremony from 50 years ago, and as a part of the Golden Jubilee of the Asian-African Conference of 1955. (UN Photo #NICA 72339 by Eskinder Debebe)

Secretary-General Kofi Annan planting an African tree at the Tegallega Garden, in Bandung, Indonesia, where the Golden Jubilee of the Asian-African Conference of 1955 was held. (UN Photo #NICA 72336 by Eskinder Debebe)

Secretary-General Kofi Annan (centre), Susito Bambang Yudhoyono (third from left), President of the Republic of Indonesia, and Thabo Mbeki (third from right), President of the Republic of South Africa, are seen together after planting trees from their respective countries, at the Tegallega Garden in Bandung, Indonesia. (UN Photo #NICA 72337 by Eskinder Debebe)


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