UN chief Annan says he has had a difficult year
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At a year-end media conference, he tackled many questions over the Iraqi oil-for-food scandal but gave no indication when he intends to step down.
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UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said in an interview on British TV Sunday the invasion of Iraq has not made the world a safer place.
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Kofi Annan says the UN needs to reassess its approach in Sudan's Darfur region saying current policies don't work.
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UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Wednesday cautioned against terrorism-fighting approaches that he said could generate problems in the long run.
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Description: UN Secretary General Kofi Annan upset the Bush Administration earlier this year when he called the Iraq War illegal and the attack on Fallujah dangerous.
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UNITED NATIONS, Sept 22  - Gloomy news about Iraq and the Middle East peace process on Wednesday overshadowed the second day of the UN&#39;s annual gathering of world leaders.
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United Nations officials fear that Secretary General Kofi Annan may have lost the confidence of the organization&#39;s most powerful constituent, the United States.
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UNITED NATIONS,  - The United Nations turns 60 in 2005 after a bruising year that has seen the organisation battered and demoralised by a string of scandals that have damaged the UN&#39;s image.
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The vision of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is under strain, the UN's human rights chief warns.
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A spokeswoman for the UN&#39;s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian affairs told journalists that the biggest obstacles to aid distribution were security and logistical problems caused by the destruction wrought by flooding in Haiti in the wake of
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Areas hit by the Asian tsunami could take up to 10 years to recover, UN secretary general Kofi Annan warns.
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A failure to significantly reduce poverty and inequality is straining democracies across Latin America, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Wednesday.
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Kofi Annan's reluctance to commit staff members to Iraq in large numbers and a series of comments he has made about the war have strained relations with the Bush administration.
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INDEPENDENCE, Missouri  - Kofi Annan, in his last major speech as U.N. secretary general, urged the United States on Monday to shun go-it-alone diplomacy and collaborate on its world challenges, including the Iraq war.
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said leaders attending this year's annual ministerial meeting of the General Assembly opening Tuesday face more "daunting challenges" than ever before &#151; from global warming to ending the war in Darfur and promoting Mideast peace.
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UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan stressed on Thursday the United Nations&#39; central role in dealing with global threats and called on the United States to support his initiative to reform the world body.
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NEW YORK A dangerous outgrowth of the deadly bombing of the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad a year ago has been an orgy of outrage and self-pity that has increasingly paralyzed the UN&#39;s capacity to respond meaningfully to needs in Iraq that it