UN chief to appoint Mideast mediator
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JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia -- United Nations chief Kofi Annan said yesterday he would appoint a mediator for indirect talks between Israel and Hezbollah on the release of two abducted Israeli soldiers, the first public word of negotiations between the bitter enemies since fighting in Lebanon ended.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said   on Monday he would appoint a secret negotiator to mediate   between Israel and Hizbollah for the release of two Israeli   soldiers seized in July.
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Former U.N. secretary-general Kofi Annan was due to arrive in Kenya on Tuesday to try to mediate in a post-poll crisis that has torn the country in two and triggered weeks of violence that killed at least 650 people.
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UNITED NATIONS -- Secretary-General Kofi Annan appointed a new chief of staff yesterday in the first of what he described as a series of changes among senior UN personnel.
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International Mideast mediators will meet with key Arab nations next month to promote new efforts to revive the Arab-Israeli peace process, the U.N.'s top envoy to the region said Wednesday.
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Middle East mediators held talks on  Tuesday that could clear the way for the appointment of Tony  Blair as their envoy to try to revive peace prospects after  Hamas seized control of the Gaza Strip.
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UN chief Kofi Annan is to help mediate in negotiations to free two Israeli soldiers captured by Hezbollah.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Secretary of State  Condoleezza Rice said Monday the United States intended to  appoint a security coordinator to help Israel and the  Palestinians protect a budding peace process.
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The U.N. Security Council is   moving quickly to select a successor to Secretary-General Kofi   Annan in October, a procedure that favors front-runner South   Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-Moon.
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It signals the possibility of peace in the Middle East, they said, with the appointment of a new leader to replace the 75-year-old head of the PLO.
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UN chief Kofi Annan said that Israel and Lebanon's Hezbollah which fought a fierce month-long war have accepted United Nations mediation on two captured Israeli soldiers.
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice  named a U.S. general Monday to act as security coordinator for  a budding new peace process between Israel and the  Palestinians.
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The U.N. political chief called for a new international effort to settle decades of Arab-Israeli conflict, saying the Middle East peace process has reached "a sorry juncture."
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A UN Middle East expert Monday asked world leaders to continue Yasser Arafat&#39;s efforts to negotiate an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw was due to hold talks with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon as part of a flurry of diplomacy intended to revive the Middle East peace process.
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice  announced Monday the appointment of a U.S. general as security  coordinator to protect budding Middle East peace moves and that  Israeli and Palestinian leaders would visit Washington.
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Jordan's U.N. Ambassador Prince Zeid al Hussein announced his candidacy on Tuesday to be the next U.N. secretary-general, becoming the fifth hopeful and the first Muslim to enter the race to succeed Kofi Annan.