UN chief skirts Iraq controversy on visit to Britain
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United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan was at pains to avoid controversy during a visit to Britain, one of the chief proponents of a war in Iraq that Annan recently described as illegal.
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The United States, Britain and Iraq on Friday angrily dismissed a warning from U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan that a military offensive in the Sunni stronghold of Fallujah could jeopardize the credibility of upcoming elections in Iraq.
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President Bush goes to the United  Nations on Tuesday to try to reassure world leaders that Iraq  is on the path to democracy, two years after he challenged them  to take a tough stance against Saddam Hussein or risk being  irrelevant.
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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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London, Oct. 18 (NNN) : United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has said the US-led war on Iraq has not made the world a safer place, according to BBC and Voice of America.
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UN Secretary General Kofi Annan took on Tuesday, September 21, a fresh, though an implicit, jab at US President George W. Bush in a clear sign that world opinion was still far from making peace with the war in Iraq.
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WASHINGTON -- UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, fending off Republican demands for his resignation over alleged corruption, said yesterday he will expand UN support for Iraqi elections if need be. He said he was not offended that President Bush did not ask to see him during this visit to Washington.
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In typical give-a-dog-a-bad-name-to-hang-it fashion, the BBC badgered UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to use the word &quot;illegal&quot; to describe the invasion of Iraq by US and British forces last year.
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Britain's next prime minister, Gordon Brown, arrived in Iraq on Monday for a fact-finding visit as he weighs Britain's future involvement in a four-year-old war that has angered voters and led to calls for a speedy pullout.
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UN Secretary-General Kofi An nan meets with visiting Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi at UN headquarters in New York, Sep 24. (Xinhua Photo).
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Kofi Annan suspends two senior UN officials after a report criticising how Iraq's oil-for-food programme was run.
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Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon is visiting British troops in Iraq, the Ministry of Defence says.
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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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Children collect usable metal parts from the site of a car bomb explosion in Baghdad, Iraq, October 4. AP. BAGHDAD  - Britain&#39;s Foreign Secretary Jack Straw paid a surprise visit to Iraq on Tuesday amid
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, fending off Republican demands for his resignation over alleged corruption, said Thursday he will expand U.N. support for Iraqi elections if need be. He said he was not offended that President Bush did not ask to see him during this visit to Washington.
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During the past 18 months, Secretary-General Kofi Annan of the United Nations has expressed many reservations about the war in Iraq.
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A UN official chides the US defence secretary for suggesting Iraq's elections may be limited by violence.