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Annan calls for global unity

UNITED NATIONS: Secretary-General Kofi Annan delivered an emotional and searing farewell to world leaders on Tuesday, appealing for nations and peoples to unite to combat widespread contempt for human rights, religious divisions spawned by terrorist fears, brutal conflicts, and an unjust world economy.

Mr. Annan's opening address to the General Assembly hit many issues on the ambitious agenda that leaders of the U.N.'s 192 member-nations confront — reviving a stalled West Asia peace process, curbing Iran's nuclear ambitions, getting U.N. peacekeepers into conflict-wracked Darfur and promoting democracy.

Mr. Annan warned that ``as long as the Palestinians live under occupation, exposed to daily frustration and humiliation, and as long as Israelis are blown up in buses or in dance halls, so long will passions everywhere be inflamed.'' — AP

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