Bush sidesteps Annan resignation issue
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President Bush on Thursday declined to endorse a Republican senator&#39;s call for UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to resign but did not offer Annan any words of support.
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US President George W. Bush has rejected criticism of a breakthrough nuclear deal with North Korea and launched a personal bid to press Pyongyang to live up to its commitments.
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Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Tuesday rejected calls from several US lawmakers for his resignation, saying he will &quot;carry on&quot; at the helm of the United Nations for the next two years.
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Britain, Germany, France, Russia, and China rallied around U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Thursday, but President Bush did not explicitly endorse the U.N. chief, under fire over suspected corruption in ...
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In his first televised comments since a member of the US Senate called for his resignation, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan shrugged off the senator Tuesday.
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United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan has repeated that he has no intention of resigning following corruption allegations within the body.
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President Bush is cutting short his stay at this year's Asia-Pacific summit, but the fact that he's going &#151; at a pivotal moment in the debate over his Iraq policy &#151; is meant to show he's not neglecting the neighborhood.
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President Bush said he and the Iraqi leader had agreed today to speed the turnover of security responsibility to Iraqi forces and dismissed a call for a gradual withdrawal of troops.
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PRESIDENT BUSH increased the pressure on Kofi Annan over the Iraq Oil-for-Food scandal yesterday, pointedly declining to endorse the UN Secretary-General.
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Secretary-General Kofi Annan rejected calls for his resignation from several U.S. lawmakers, saying Tuesday he will "carry on" at the helm of the United Nations for the next two years.
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UNITED NATIONS  - US President George W. Bush and UN Secretary General Kofi Annan were set to trade barbs on the opening day of the two-week session of the UN General Assembly, with the aftershocks of the Iraq war still at the top of the
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UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan , fending off Republican demands for his resignation over alleged corruption, said Thursday he will expand UN support for Iraqi elections if need be.
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President Bush understands there is growing U.S. concern over his handling of the Iraq war but will not rely on polls to determine when to withdraw troops, his spokesman said Sunday.
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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.
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The Bush administration, cool to U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan as he copes with calls for his resignation, has a track record of trying to oust heads of U.N. agencies.
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The presidentÂs national security adviser sidestepped questions about how the administration would react to the release of the Iraq Study GroupÂs report.
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The Bush administration said Thursday that it had faith in Secretary-General Kofi Annan and did not want to see him leave office, its first show of support for the UN official since calls for his resignation last week.