UN holds memorial service for late secretary-general Annan

Xinhua | Updated: 2018-08-23 09:54
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A portrait of seventh UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan at UN Headquarters. [Photo/Xinhua]

Guterres was picked by Annan as UN High Commissioner for Refugees in 2005 before he himself became UN secretary-general in 2017.

Annan, a Ghanaian diplomat and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, died on Saturday in Switzerland, at the age of 80. He served as UN secretary-general for 10 years till the end of 2006.

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