UN chief visiting tense Sri Lanka
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Kofi Annan is due to tour tsunami-hit areas of Sri Lanka amid tension over aid between the government and rebels.
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UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan will depart this weekend on official visits to China, Ireland and the United Kingdom, a UN spokesman said on October 7. "He will visit an eco-village and HIV/AIDS testing center, ...
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Sri Lanka on Saturday asked U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan not to visit disaster-stricken areas controlled by the Tamil Tiger rebels, forcing the United Nations into a political situation it had hoped to avoid.
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A United Nations investigator said on   Tuesday that "political killings" continued in Sri Lanka and   called for international human rights monitors to be sent to   the island.
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Tamil Tigers react angrily as UN chief is stopped from visiting tsunami-hit areas of Sri Lanka they control.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi  Annan intends to visit tsunami stricken Indonesia next week, as  the world increased aid pledges to $2 billion for victims in  South Asia, U.N. officials said on Saturday.
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A high-level Norwegian delegation led by Foreign Minister Jan Petersen arrived in Sri Lanka this week as part of international efforts to save the countryâs tottering peace process.
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The U.N. secretary general toured the tsunami-battered Indonesian island, where 4,000 more bodies were pulled from the rubble.
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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 chief Ban Ki-moon has voiced concern about the safety of aid workers in Sri Lanka after the murder of two Red Cross volunteers, his office said, as Japan's peace envoy began a visit to the war-battered island.
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Kofi Annan, the Secretary General of the United Nations, was welcomed to London by the Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, on 19 October 2004.
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Norwegian Foreign Minister Jan Petersen arrived in Sri Lanka on a dual mission to assess the needs of tsunami-hit areas and to try to revive peace talks between the government and Tamil Tiger rebels, officials said.
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After a tussle with the Sri Lankan government, the head of the U.N. World Food Program met a Tamil Tiger guerrilla leader Sunday to discuss distribution of food to tens of thousands of tsunami-affected people in rebel-held territories.
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U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan toured Indonesia's tsunami-ravaged Aceh province on Friday, flying by helicopter to the razed town of Meulaboh, beyond which is a black hole of devastation.
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UNITED NATIONS, New York The head of the UN&#39;s peacekeeping operations has asked for a Security Council meeting Thursday to discuss the volatile situation in the Great Lakes region of Africa, a spokesman said.
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GALLE, Sri Lanka  - Secretary of State Colin  Powell toured Sri Lanka's tsunami-ravaged south on Friday,  surveyeing a crippled tourism hub and relief efforts just hours  ahead of a visit by U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
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Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers are ready for   talks with the government to halt a new episode of civil war, a   top rebel leader said on Tuesday, but he warned violence would   spread if army offensives continued.