Edward Mortimer

Edward Mortimer was chief speechwriter and director of communications to the UN secretary-general Kofi Annan (1998-2006). He is now a Distinguished Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford and chair of the Sri Lanka Campaign for Peace and Justice.

Choosing the next UN leader should not be left to three people

The secretary-general of the United Nations holds the world in his hands. It shouldn’t be possible to count those who decide who that is on the fingers of one.

By Edward Mortimer

/ 11 Nov 2014

Is the UN obsolete? A response to Frank Vibert

The New World Order was becoming an embarrassment, having engendered expectations of military intervention to right wrongs anywhere and everywhere. Soon after the coup against Gorbachev in August 1991, as

By Edward Mortimer

/ 1 Apr 2003