Disputing Annan, allies say Iraq war legal
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LONDON -- Britain, Australia, and a former US official, stung by criticism from UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, insisted yesterday that their countries' military action in Iraq was legal.
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BBC, LONDON, September 16: Key states who joined the US-led invasion of Iraq have rejected claims by the United Nations secretary general that the war was illegal.
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Secretary-General Kofi Annan&#39;s claim that the war in Iraq was &quot;illegal&#39;&#39; unleashed a storm of protests from the United States and its allies.
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The United States and its coalition partners defended the war in Iraq Thursday after U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan asserted that it was "illegal" because it didn't have Security Council support.
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UNITED NATIONS -- The US decision to go to war in Iraq without the approval of the UN Security Council was &quot;illegal,&quot; Secretary General Kofi Annan told the BBC yesterday.
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The US rebuffs UN chief Kofi Annan's assertion that the American-led invasion of Iraq was illegal.
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Australian Prime Minister John Howard rejected claims by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan that the Iraq war was &quot;illegal&quot;, slamming the United Nations as &quot;paralysed&quot;.
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Key states who joined the US-led invasion of Iraq have rejected claims by the United Nations Secretary-General that the war was illegal.
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Australian Prime Minister John Howard on Thursday rejected UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan&#39;s criticism of the Iraq war as illegal, saying the Iraq war was &quot;entirely valid.
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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 &quot;Oil-for-Food&quot; program for Iraq.
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WASHINGTON: UN Secretary General Kofi Annan threw the diplomatic world into a tizzy on Wednesday by bluntly declaring that the US decision to invade Iraq in March 2003 was illegal.
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The US-led invasion of Iraq was illegal because a decision to go to war should have been made by the United Nations Security Council, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said in an interview shown by the British Broadcasting Corp.
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Diplomats from several countries have expressed support for the United Nations Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, after a call for his resignation over the UN role in the Iraq Oil-for-Food programme.
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United Nations, Sept. 17. (PTI): Nearly 18 months after the US-led war against Iraq to overthrow President Saddam Hussein, the UN Secretary General Kofi has termed the invasion as &quot;illegal&quot; that contravened the world body&#39;s charter.
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Secretary-General Kofi Annan's claim that the war in Iraq was "illegal'' unleashed a storm of protests from the United States and its allies.
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UNITED NATIONS - Secretary-General Kofi Annan's claim that the war in Iraq was illegal drew strong protest from the United States and its allies but little comment from the war's opponents, who appeared unwilling to revisit the question.    The U.N...
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UN Secretary General Kofi Annan was at pains to avoid controversy during a visit to Britain, one of the chief proponents of a war in Iraq that Annan recently described as illegal.