Who is Kofi Annan addressing in this speech? What clues in the text help identify that he is speaking not only to the people in the room, but to the world?

Kofi Annan was addressing the people of the world not only to the people in the room.

A speech is a human communication using language usually expressing ideas and thoughts.

In his speech,  Kofi Annan addressed not mainly about a specific race, but he talked to the whole world through his speech.

He said that no one today is unaware of the divide between the worlds rich and poor.

Today no one can claim ignorance of the cost that has imposed on the poor because of division.

Moreover, this division has deprived who are no less deserving of human dignity, fundamental freedoms, security, food, and education than any of us.  

He added that today’s real borders are not between nations, but between powerful and powerless, free and fettered, privileged and humiliated.

In his speech, he said that no walls could separate humanitarian or human rights crises in one part of the world.

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Answer and Explanation:

Kofi Annan's speech, which he has addressed, was not mainly about a specific race, but he talked to the whole world through his speech. He said that no one today is unaware of the divide between the worlds rich and poor. Today no one can claim ignorance of the cost that has imposed on the poor because of division. Moreover, this division has dispossessed who are no less deserving of human dignity, fundamental freedoms, security, food, and education than any of us.  

He added that today’s real borders are not between nations, but between powerful and powerless, free and fettered, privileged and humiliated. In his speech, he said that no walls could separate humanitarian or human rights crises in one part of the world.

Through his lines:

“Over the past five years,Recalled that the United Nations’ Charter begins with the words: “We the peoples.” Not recognized is that “we the peoples” are made up of individuals and  claims to the most fundamental rights  to often been sacrificed in the supposed interests of the state or the nation.”

Shows that he is talking about every individual of this world, not about a particular region.