Annan is teetering on his pedestal
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UNITED NATIONS, New York For years, Kofi Annan was seen at the United Nations as a Mandela-like figure, a statesman who brought a serene sense of personal confidence and institutional steadiness to the task of settling conflict and a person frequently
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WASHINGTON - UN Secretary General Kofi Annan was pressed Thursday to do more in Iraq, while at the same time he was being snubbed by the US president.
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UNITED NATIONS The United States has gone on record saying UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan should remain on the job, a week after President Bush pointedly chose not to voice such support.
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TONY BLAIR threw his weight behind Kofi Annan yesterday amid a growing clamour in the United States for the United Nations Secretary-General to resign over the Oil-for-Food scandal.
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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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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 mock pundit's mission to insinuate himself in places where he doesnât belong continues apace.
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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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The United Nations headquarters went on the defensive Wednesday, highlighting staff members&#39; support for beleaguered Secretary-General Kofi Annan amid calls for his resignation
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A band of House Republicans has done the once-unthinkable and called for the resignation of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan. But giving Annan the boot is only the first step.
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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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UNITED NATIONS : UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has been pushing for an overhaul of the United Nations, and the biggest challenge of all is how to reform the Security Council.
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The UN General Assembly has given Secretary-General Kofi Annan a symbolic show of support in the face of calls by some US lawmakers for his resignation.
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A Libyan took over as president of the U.N. Security Council Thursday, capping the nation's climb back to respectability. But its ambassador said Libya's past ordeal under U.N. sanctions puts it "in a very difficult position when we speak about imposing sanctions against another country."
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JERUSALEM -- Kofi Annan, the UN secretary-general, said yesterday that Israel's air and sea blockade of Lebanon was a ``humiliation," and demanded that it be lifted. But Israel said that it first needed assurances that forces deployed on the border could stop weapons shipments to Hezbollah.
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TONY EASTLEY: UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has uncomfortably seen for himself China&#39;s continuing sensitivity to any questioning of the government&#39;s human rights record.
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A Washington-based policy group says the United Nations (UN) secretary-general Kofi Annan must take responsibility for his staff&#39;s actions.