Annan calls on Israel to end blockade
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan called Israel's air and sea blockade of Lebanon a "humiliation" Tuesday and demanded it be lifted. But Israel said it first needed assurances that forces deployed on the border can stop weapons shipments to Hezbollah.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan on   Monday urged the world to avoid confrontation with Iran over   its nuclear goals, after Tehran told him it wanted a negotiated   solution but would not halt uranium enrichment before any   talks.
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UN Secretary General Kofi Annan today called on the Security Council to issue âthe strongest warningâ to the forces fighting in Sudan to bring an end to the civil wars there.
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Kofi Annan urges a negotiated solution to the Iranian nuclear issue, but the US calls for UN sanctions.
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Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Monday he wants the upcoming meeting of key Mideast players to agree on a package to stop the Israeli-Hezbollah fighting and ensure lasting peace between Israel and Lebanon.
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JERUSALEM -- Israel said it will lift its sea and air blockade of Lebanon on Thursday as it faced widespread international pressure more than three weeks after a cease-fire took effect, ending a bloody monthlong conflict with Hezbollah guerrillas.
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Kofi Annan, United Nations secretary-general, has urged the Security Council to step up its efforts to end the conflict in Sudan&#39;s western Darfur region, where growing violence
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Arab nations demanded in a draft UN Security Council resolution yesterday that Israel immediately halt its incursion into the northern Gaza Strip, where fighting has left at least 65 Palestinians dead.
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Prime minister Ehud Olmert rebuffed a request from the U.N. secretary general for even a partial lifting of the blockade.
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The United Nations urged Israel on Friday to find a solution to a 13-day-old hunger strike by Palestinian prisoners, reminding Israel of its obligations under international law and human rights conventions.
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A draft resolution circulating Saturday among U.N. Security Council members would call for an immediate halt to fighting between Israel and Hezbollah and seek a wide new buffer zone in south Lebanon monitored by international forces and the Lebanese army.
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Secretary-General Kofi Annan called Thursday for an immediate halt to the violence between Israel and Lebanon, saying a cease-fire would be the first step toward ending the escalating war.
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United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan Saturday called for an end to the violence in Ivory Coast, which has killed nine French troops and an American.
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United Nations chief Kofi Annan on  Tuesday demanded that the world body's human rights watchdog,  meeting in special session on Sudan's Darfur, send a clear  message that the "nightmare" of violence had to stop.
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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told a visiting U.N. envoy Tuesday that Israel will lift its air and sea blockade of Lebanon once an international peacekeeping force is deployed along Lebanon's borders.
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JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia, Oct. 3 -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Tuesday appealed to the Palestinians to immediately end a new wave of internal fighting that has killed a dozen people and has further threatened to unravel the troubled Palestinian Authority.
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Arab countries have formally   asked the U.N. Security Council to acknowledge that efforts to   end the Arab-Israeli conflict have failed and to resuscitate   and reshape the peace process.