UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said on Friday he is “very disappointed” by the failure of western nations to set up a rapid reaction force to intervene in the civil war in Sierra Leone. “I am disappointed, I would even say I am very disappointed, and I am not the only one,” Kofi said in an interview with Le Monde newspaper. But he said the deployment of British troops in the capital Freetown has been “extremely useful.” “The presence of British troops and the fact that they have secured the airport helps us a lot. It means that soldiers from Unamsil [the UN mission] who were manning the airport can be deployed elsewhere,” he said. Annan said the UN is currently reinforcing its presence in the west African state. “The Canadians and the Americans are going to help bring in 3000 extra troops. The Jordanians are going in with an elite unit, and the Indians will have combat helicopters,” he said. Annan said the fate of the troops was his “top priority …. We are actively engaged in the hunt for Foday Sankoh. I hold him personally responsible for the safety of the ‘blue-helmets’,” he said.