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Former UN chief Kofi Annan honored in Austria
(AP)
Updated: 2007-09-12 16:41
Former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan displays a AK47 gun
transformed to a guitar at Vienna's UN headquarters September 11, 2007.
At the Vienna International Center, Annan was guest of honour at the
naming ceremony of the Kofi Annan Building on Tuesday. [Reuters]
VIENNA -- Former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan attended a ceremony
Tuesday to name a building in his honor at the organization's Vienna
complex, a day after he received an award from Austria's president.
The building now bearing Annan's name houses the headquarters of the
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, directed by Antonio Maria Costa.
"This is a fitting tribute to a man who has done so much for humankind,
and who has raised the profile of the United Nations in Vienna," Costa,
who is also the top official at the UN's Vienna branch, said in a
statement before the ceremony.
During the ceremony, Annan received an AK 47 rifle that originated from
the disarmament process in Colombia and had been turned into an electric
guitar.
Colombian musician Cesar Lopez, who has been working with the UN Office
on Drugs and Crime in Colombia to raise awareness of violence, created
the so-called Escopetarra in 2003 from rifles that had been used in
conflict.
On Monday, Austrian President Heinz Fischer presented Annan with the
country's "Grand Decoration of Honor in Gold With Sash for Services to
the Republic of Austria." Annan also met with other Austrian officials,
including Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer and Ursula Plassnik, the foreign
minister. Later Tuesday, he was due to receive the Bruno Kreisky Prize
for Human Rights.
Annan was the UN's top official from 1997 until the end of last year.
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