Kofi Annan, the Secretary-General of the UN, used the occasion of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize lecture today to make an impassioned case for the continued importance of the organization as a promoter of peace and a champion of individual rights in an unstable and unequal world. Annan won the Peace Prize jointly with the UN, and he said the monetary award of $947,000 would be pooled for a single project to benefit the UN. "The old problems that existed on Sept. 10, before the attack, are still with us: the elimination of poverty, the fight against HIV/AIDS, the question of the environment," he said. "We need to think of the future and the planet we are going to leave our children and their children."

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