translated from Spanish: Piñera following the death of Kofi Annan: “the world lost a tireless fighter”

the President Sebastián Piñera, today joined the hundreds of messages of regret and xpresados by the international community before the death of the former Secretary general of the UN and the Nobel Peace Prize, Kofi Annan, of 80 years, whom he described as “a tireless fighter”.
“With the death of Kofi Annan, former Secretary general of the United Nations, the world lost a tireless fighter for peace and justice. My sincere condolences to his family and friends”, said the Piñera on his Twitter account.
The conservative President said in the same networks that “our duty is to keep alive his witness and teachings”.
In the official Twitter of the Ghanaian Kofi Annan account, family members published a message that pointed out that the death occurred after receiving treatment by a short illness in a hospital in Switzerland.
Annan remained active until his last days, leading the delegation of the NGO The Elders, founded by Nelson Mandela, who visited Zimbabwe during the electoral process at the end of July.
The first sub-Saharan UN leader entered the Organization in 1962 and was ascending in its ranks until reaching the general secretariat in 1997, feature that until 2006.

Original source in Spanish

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