Annan says Iraq in grip of civil war
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Iraq was in the grip of a civil war as U.S. and Iraqi forces attacked insurgent bases in a bid to shore up the authority of a governmnent itself riven by factional rivalries.
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UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said in an interview on British TV Sunday the invasion of Iraq has not made the world a safer place.
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UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan says plans for elections scheduled for January in Iraq are on track and voting should take place if the situation holds.
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The U.N. chief said Monday the deadly security situation in Iraq was making it difficult to expand the world body's role in the chaotic nation.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said in an interview broadcast Sunday that "concessions" were made to Saddam Hussein to win his agreement to the oil-for-food program because there were concerns the Iraqi people would starve without it.
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The UN chief says the US is stuck in Iraq, as he urges Syria and Iran to help bring stability to the country.
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Police found some 50 bodies with gunshot wounds in Baghdad over the past day, an Interior Ministry source said on Monday, a day after U.N. chief Kofi Annan declared Iraq's plight as worse than civil war.
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United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan described the war with Iraq as an âillegalâ violation of the UN Charter in a September 16 interview with the BBC, adding that âI hope we do not see another Iraq-type operation for a long time.
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London, Oct. 18 (NNN) : United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has said the US-led war on Iraq has not made the world a safer place, according to BBC and Voice of America.
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The vision of national reconciliation in Iraq is plagued by a tenacious insurgency and sectarian warfare, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki told the United Nations Wednesday.
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Secretary-General Kofi Annan, responding to a call for assistance from Iraq&#039;s new premier, has agreed to help muster political and economic support for the country&#039;s new government, the U.N. spokesman said Friday.
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Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki told the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday that terrorism is threatening to erase any gains made in reducing sectarian killings and establishing democratic principles in his country.
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As U.S. and Iraqi forces step up their campaign to curb insurgents in Iraq, they should strive to avoid alienating the wider public as the country struggles to improve security ahead of January's elections, United Nations chief Kofi Annan said Tuesday.
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UN Secretary General Kofi Annan took on Tuesday, September 21, a fresh, though an implicit, jab at US President George W. Bush in a clear sign that world opinion was still far from making peace with the war in Iraq.
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The killing in Iraq is now worse than civil war, outgoing UN chief Kofi Annan says in a BBC interview.
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The U.S.-led war in Iraq has not made the world any safer, U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan said in a British television interview aired on Sunday.
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NEW YORK, September 16  - Eighteen months after Iraq had been invaded and occupied, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan called the US-led onslaught âillegalâ and contravenes the UN charter.