What a very nice man that Kofi Annan is!!
He was speaking at an event I was working on for the 60th anniversary of the UN at Westminster Central Hall this week. I had the job of fitting him with a radio microphone. I was shown into his room and attached the microphone to his tie. When I'd finished he extended his hand to me and said thankyou.
I mentioned that I had worked on an event with him before and he said it's a small world isn't it.
His address was very interesting and afterwards I waited to take his microphone off him. When I did he again offered his hand and thanked me by name (I had a security pass round my neck).
It's nice to be acknowledged as a human being by these VIP's - something that doesn't always happen - for example the foreign secretary Jack Straw who I also mic'ed up virtually ignored me.
K
welcome back. Yes Kofi Anan does have a certain charisma but Straw reminds me of an under manager from an Inland Revenue office.