Bush Administration Breaks Silence to Back Annan
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The Bush administration expressed confidence in UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Thursday and said he should stay in office, in a belated rebuff to demands from Republicans in Congress for his resignation.
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United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan&#39;s statement that the Bush administration&#39;s decision to go to war in Iraq was illegal because it didn&#39;t have the Security Council&#39;s approval should have been made before the invasion.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi  Annan on Thursday endorsed scientific research involving the  cloning of human embryos, differing with the Bush  administration's push for a treaty to ban such studies.
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Washington, Sept. 17 (NNN): The United States and most of its allies have rejected the United Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan&#39;s claim that the US-led invasion of Iraq was illegal.
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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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The Bush administration played down the U.S. contribution to world climate change on Friday and called for a "global discussion" after a U.N. report blamed humans for much of the warming over the past 50 years.
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WASHINGTON : President George W Bush Thursday joined a chorus of US-allied leaders in defending the Iraq war from UN chief Kofi Annan&#39;s charge that it was illegal.
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Britain, Germany, France,  Russia, and China rallied around U.N. Secretary-General Kofi  Annan on Thursday, but President Bush refused to explicitly  endorse the U.N. chief under fire over suspected corruption in  an Iraqi-oil sales program.
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UNITED NATIONS - The United States expressed confidence in Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Thursday and said he should remain at the helm of the United Nations, an abrupt turnaround from its refusal to back him last week after a US senator called for his
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The Bush administration eased today the pressure on the secretary general since some Americans called for his resignation.
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The presidentÂs national security adviser sidestepped questions about how the administration would react to the release of the Iraq Study GroupÂs report.
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THE US has switched direction on the future of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, announcing yesterday it supported his tenure and was not calling for his resignation.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell called Kofi Annan a &quot;good&quot; UN secretary-general on Friday, after days in which Washington chose not to defend the diplomat against a US senator&#39;s demand he resign.
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President Bush called for a "full  and open" accounting of the U.N. oil-for-food program on  Thursday but would not say whether he thought U.N.  Secretary-General Kofi Annan should resign.
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President Bush yesterday called for &quot;full disclosure&quot; of the United Nations oil-for-food scandal, although he declined to join Republican demands for the ouster of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
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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.
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UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, who recently angered the United States by calling the war in Iraq &quot;illegal,&quot; has weighed in again with a letter to President Bush, British Prime Minister