US cool on Annan&#39;s Congo peace force plan
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NEW YORK: Kofi Annan&#39;s plan to more than double the international peacekeeping force in the Democratic Republic of Congo has received a frosty reception at the UN Security Council.
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By Mark Turner at the United Nations and Guy Dinmore in Washington. The White House declined to express confidence on Wednesday in Kofi Annan&#39;s leadership as United Nations secretary general, on the day that
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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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The United States gave UN Secretary General Kofi Annan a belated show of support but said the United Nations remains under a cloud over allegations of corruption in Iraq.
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United Nations: UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, under attack from a US right-wing republican, who demanded that he step down in connection with allegations of corruption in the now defunct &#39;oil-for-food&#39; programme, has got a backing from several member
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Sudan has backed away from a  warning to dozens of countries not to pledge troops to a U.N.  force for Darfur, the United States said on Friday.
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Washington is unlikely to  support fully a U.N. appeal for more than 13,000 additional  troops for the troubled U.N. peacekeeping mission in Congo but  no decision has been made, a U.S. official said on Wednesday.
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UNITED NATIONS, New York: The Bush administration on Thursday eased the pressure it had been putting on Secretary General Kofi Annan since American calls for his resignation, saying for the first time that it had faith in him and did not want to see him
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The United Nations said yesterday it will send peacekeepers to separate warring Congo army factions, warning that the UN troops will repulse any attempt to cross the new buffer zone.
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A draft United Nations resolution on the Sudan crisis is scheduled to be discussed by security council members in New York today. It has been drawn up by the US and calls for the African Union monitoring force
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UN Secretary General Kofi Annan is to urge the US to work with other nations rather than acting unilaterally.
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United Nations, December 10: The US Ambassador to the United Nations, John Danforth, has denied that the United States is trying to push out embattled UN Secretary General Kofi Annan.
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UNITED NATIONS  - The Security Council unanimously approved a resolution Friday increasing the UN peacekeeping force in Congo by 5,900 troops and international police - less than half the amount requested by Secretary General Kofi Annan.
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The State Department said Friday US officials are &quot;profoundly concerned&quot; about reports that Rwandan troops have entered the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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There is growing fear among United Nations officials that Secretary-General Kofi Annan may have lost the confidence of the organisation&#39;s most powerful constituent, the United States.
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The United States of Africa. It's one of few concrete plans African leaders agreed on as they struggled with issues of peacekeeping and political disputes at this week's continental summit.
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KILALO, Congo  - United Nations troops deployed  amid lush hills in eastern Congo on Wednesday to set up a  buffer zone to stop clashes between rival army factions that  have uprooted thousands and raised tensions with Rwanda.