(FILES) In this file photo taken on October 17, 2011 former UN Secretary general Kofi Annan waves after Irish former Prime Minister Bertie Ahern read a declaration following the conference to promote a resolution in the Basque Country, on October 17, 2011, in the northern Spanish Basque city of San Sebastian. International negotiators including former Irish premier Bertie Ahern called on armed Basque group ETA to declare a definitive end to violence. Negotiators pressed Spain and France to greet such a move by starting talks to deal exclusively with the consequences of the conflict, which has lasted more than four decades and claimed 829 lives. AFP PHOTO/ RAFA RIVAS - Former United Nations Secretary General and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Kofi Annan has died on August 18, 2018 after a short illness at the age of 80, his foundation announced. "It is with immense sadness that the Annan family and the Kofi Annan Foundation announce that Kofi Annan, former Secretary General of the United Nations and Nobel Peace Laureate, passed away peacefully on Saturday 18th August after a short illness," the foundation said in a statement. (Photo by Rafa RIVAS / AFP)