UN watchdog says ready to go back to Iraq if asked
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VIENNA, Oct 13  - The UN nuclear watchdog, blocked from returning to Iraq since the US-led war, is ready to send inspectors back after reports of the disappearance of high-tech equipment that could be used to make nuclear weapons, a spokesman said
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United Nations member states voiced support for Secretary-General Kofi Annan after a U.S. senator called for him to resign over possible fraud in Iraq's oil-for-food program. The State Department endorsed a Senate investigation of the troubled program but sidestepped the issue of Annan's future.
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[World News]: Baghdad, Oct 13 : Iraq has said UN weapons inspectors are welcome to return, in response to an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report that equipment and materials used for nuclear weapons have disappeared from the country, reports
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LONDON: UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said on Tuesday that a crackdown on insurgents in Iraqi hotspots like Fallujah must be calibrated to avoid losing a battle for the hearts and minds of Iraqis.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi  Annan makes his first visit to Washington next week since calls  for his resignation, meeting Secretary of State Colin Powell  and national security adviser Condoleezza Rice to talk about  Iraq, U.N. officials said on Friday.
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Fiji will start posting soldiers and bodyguards to Iraq next month to guard United Nations staff there. Fiji will provide 155 soldiers to protect UN buildings and 24 bodyguards for officials, Republic of Fiji
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If U.N. nuclear inspectors want to  return to Iraq to check for missing equipment and materials,  they are welcome, a government minister said on Tuesday.
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WASHINGTON, Oct 13 (OneWorld) The environmental group Greenpeace has echoed a call by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to permit the UN watchdog to return in force to Iraq to track nuclear-related materials looted after the 2003 US-led
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Iraqi President Jalal Talabani has told Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett that her country's troops will be able to go home at the end of next year, voicing confidence that order will have been restored in war-torn Iraq by then.
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United Nations, Sep 15 - Iraq has appealed to the international community to send more troops to protect the United Nations staff needed for holding of elections by January 31 next year and thwart terrorist attempt to disrupt the poll process.
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UNITED NATIONS - Iraq urged regional and world powers yesterday to back an expanded United Nations role in Iraq, but UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said there was more to be done on security before he could increase UN staff.
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UNITED NATIONS - The United Nations&#39; nuclear agency says it is concerned about the disappearance of equipment and materials from Iraq that could be used to make nuclear weapons.
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The United Nations is hopeful elections in Iraq can be held on schedule in January 2005 despite escalating violence &#151; but the level of U.N. electoral assistance will depend on security, the top U.N. envoy to Iraq says.
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The U.N. Security Council must be prepared to commit peacekeepers to East Timor for many years if it orders forces back to the shattered nation as expected, a U.N. envoy said Wednesday.
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U.N. inspectors, barred from most of Iraq since last year's invasion, are ready to return to probe the disappearance of equipment that could be used in atomic weapons, the United Nations nuclear watchdog said Wednesday.
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The UN&#39;s nuclear watchdog raised concerns on Monday about material and equipment from Saddam Hussein&#39;s regime, which could be used to make a nuclear weapon and have since vanished in Iraq.
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The United Nations Secretary General, Kofi Annan, has declined to give a firm commitment about increasing the number of UN personnel in Iraq ahead of next month&#39;s elections in the country.