“When you leave one home for another, there are always lessons to be learnt”

—  Kofi Annan

Farewell Speech (2006)
Context: When you leave one home for another, there are always lessons to be learnt. And I had more to learn when I moved on from Minnesota to the United Nations - the indispensable common house of the entire human family, which has been my main home for the last 44 years.

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7th Secretary-General of the United Nations 1938–2018

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