UN Security Council to hold crucial poll on Annan successor
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The Security Council was to hold a fourth straw poll on the next UN leader which will determine whether the front-runner, South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-Moon, seen here in September 2006, has the backing ...Comment
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At the United Nations, the Security Council is preparing to vote on an Arab-drafted resolution demanding that Israel halt its Gaza offensive.
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South Korea's foreign minister kept his spot as the favorite in the race to succeed UN Secretary General Kofi Annan in an informal poll yesterday, the only one among the seven candidates to get the needed majority of votes. Ban Ki-Moon received 13 votes in favor, one against, and one no opinion, China's UN Ambassador Wang Guangya said. ...
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UN Secretary Kofi Annan says January elections in Iraq are still feasible but it is up to the Iraqis to decide whether the vote should go forward amid continuing violence.
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The UN Security Council prepares to discuss the future of Kosovo amid continuing deadlock.
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The UN Security Council agreed to a vote on Monday on a resolution imposing an immediate arms embargo on Ivory Coast after government bombings shattered a cease-fire and killed nine French peacekeepers.
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The U.N. Security Council will meet Monday to discuss Kosovo's declaration of independence from Serbia amid bitter divisions over the future of the Balkan territory.
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The U.N. Security Council on Tuesday called on all parties in Ivory Coast to redouble efforts to hold elections by June and extended the mandate of U.N. and French peacekeepers in Ivory Coast to help organize the ballot.
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Ethnic unrest in southern Nepal that has blighted the country's fragile peace process has to be tackled before crucial polls to decide Nepal's political future, the United Nations said.
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22 December 2004 - As his top envoy continued meetings with Iraqi officials in Baghdad ahead of elections scheduled for 30 January, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan said today that the Iraqi people &quot;have a chance for the first time in a long
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The UN Security Council is to hold emergency talks over the killing of dozens of Congolese Tutsi refugees in Burundi.
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UNITED NATIONS -- The UN Security Council's five permanent members yesterday unanimously backed South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon's bid to become the United Nations' next secretary general, making it likely that he will be endorsed next week by the 15-nation council as the world's top diplomat.
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Former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan is due to meet Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki on Thursday to try to end a post-election crisis after persuading the opposition to call off further street protests.
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NAIROBI  - The UN Security Council will hold a rare meeting outside its New York base this week to focus on Sudan amid mounting alarm over the crisis in Darfur and little sign of an immediate breakthrough in peace talks between Khartoum and southern
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UN Secretary General Kofi Annan will urge the world body's Human Rights Council to hold a special session on violations in Sudan's strife-torn region of Darfur, warning that the Council's reputation is at stake.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan's appeal for international troops to protect U.N. monitors during Iraq's elections next year is unlikely to get a reply from Europe before the U.S. elections, analysts and diplomats said Friday.
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Ethnic Serbians in the province of Kosovo should vote in tomorrow&#39;s parliamentary elections to ensure their ``interests and concerns are represented,&#39;&#39; said United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan.