Kofi Annan, Mandela on Obama’s victory
Source: http://www.ghananewstoday.com/news_readmore.php?id=1562
13 November 2008
Kofi Annan - Former UN boss
From city squares to remote villages, many citizens of the world cheered the election of Barack Obama as U.S. president.
Former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, who is from the West African nation of Ghana, said the vote was a historic event that he'd never expected in his lifetime. He said Obama's victory demonstrates "America's extraordinary capacity to renew itself and adapt to a changing world."
For Nelson Mandela, South Africa's first black president, the election of America's first black commander in chief is a symbol of hope. Mandela has sent Obama a letter of congratulations saying that Obama's win shows that anyone in the world can "dare to dream of wanting to change the world for a better place."
In France, a human rights minister hailed the occasion as "the fall of the Berlin Wall times ten." He said today "we all want to be American."
Source: AP
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