Annan gets crucial EU support: Tussle with US over Iraq food ...
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UNITED NATIONS, Dec 4: Although UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan received unqualified support from most of the 191 member states of the United Nations, UN officials and diplomats fear that
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UNITED NATIONS - Iraq urged regional and world powers yesterday to back an expanded United Nations role in Iraq, but UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said there was more to be done on security before he could increase UN staff.
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UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan says the investigation into abuses of the oil-for-food program in Iraq has &quot;cast a shadow&quot; over the United Nations.
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UNITED NATIONS The United States has now joined the rest of the world backing United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan. It&#39;s an abrupt turnaround from the US refusal to back him last week after a senator called for his resignation.
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Since the widening controversy over the UN&#39;s oil-for-food program bubbled onto the international stage last January, it&#39;s been a weapon for conservatives in Congress who want to see Kofi Annan walk the plank.
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The European Union has invited Kofi Annan as a special guest to its summit next Friday, a Dutch presidency spokesman said, demonstrating support for the U.N. secretary-general amid a campaign in the United States to force him out.
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Description: UN Secretary General Kofi Annan upset the Bush Administration earlier this year when he called the Iraq War illegal and the attack on Fallujah dangerous.
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United Nations: UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has strongly opposed US plans for a major military assault on the Iraqi city of Fallujah, warning that it could further divide Iraqi people and affect the January polls in the war-ravaged country.
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The European Union threw its political weight behind beleaguered U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Friday but the United States again refused to back him and a U.S. senator reiterated his call for the U.N. chief to resign.
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Spain and France on Tuesday expressed their support to United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan, who was accused by US senators of corrupting the UN "Oil-for-Food" program for Iraq.
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A stepped-up US campaign against insurgents must not be allowed to alienate the Iraqi public, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said Tuesday.
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MARK COLVIN: There&#39;s a growing campaign, particularly in the US, to force the UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan, to resign following allegations of corruption in the oil-for-food program in Iraq.
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Abu Ghraib. Guantanamo. Haditha. America&#039;s problems with Iraq are casting a long shadow over President Bush&#039;s meeting with European Union leaders this week.
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WASHINGTON  - A US senator heading a panel investigating the UN&#39;s scandal-plagued Iraq oil-for-food program called for UN chief Kofi Annan&#39;s resignation in a Wall Street Journal opinion piece.
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UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said yesterday corruption allegations in the Iraqi oil-for-food program had cast a shadow over the United Nations but said again he would not resign as the world's top diplomat. To meet criticism in the Republican-dominated US Congress that the United Nations was withholding documents, Annan said a UN probe led by Paul Volcker, the former ...
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Already embattled with his ties to the Iraqi Oil for Food scandal, and what some term as the 'Food for Sex' scandal, Kofi Annan has dodged the latest bullet. Well, dodged only in the sense that specific allegations against him was removed at the last minute before passing.    The UN staff union passed a resolution sharply critical of the world body's senior management but expressed support for beleaguered Secretary General Kofi Annan.    An earlier draft of the resolution had strongly worded language about no confidence in senior staff of the United Nations, which has been buffeted by scandals over the past few months.
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UNITED NATIONS: UN diplomats say they are concerned that calls for Secretary-General Kofi Annan&#39;s resignation and allegations of massive corruption in the UN oil-for-food program in Iraq could derail plans for a sweeping reform of the United Nations.