Annan declines to commit extra UN staff
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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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Kofi Annan rejects claims that France and Russia might have been willing to ease sanctions on Iraq in return for oil.
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Australia on Thursday backed UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan against calls for his resignation over the world body&#39;s scandal-plagued oil-for-food program for Iraq.
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UNITED NATIONS -- A UN office probing fraud and misconduct concluded that Ruud Lubbers, the UN high commissioner for refugees, sexually harassed a woman staff member, but Secretary General Kofi Annan rejected the charges.
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The UN is &quot;doing the job&quot; of supporting elections in Iraq and no more staff are needed there, its Secretary General, Kofi Annan, has said.
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Australia has turned down a diplomatic plea for a contribution to a military force to protect United Nations (UN) personnel in Iraq.
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UNITED NATIONS - Secretary General Kofi Annan was facing new questions on Friday about support from his own employees after UN staff cast doubt on a show of confidence in his leadership.
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The European Union threw its political weight behind beleaguered U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Friday but the United States again refused to back him and a U.S. senator reiterated his call for the U.N. chief to resign.
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Most top U.N. officials have defied a request to submit their resignations to make way for new appointees, the world body said on Wednesday, hinting at the obstacles to reform faced by new U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon.
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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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United Nations: More than 2,700 staff members of the UN Secretariat have signed a letter expressing their support for Secretary-General Kofi Annan at a time when the organization has faced allegations about its integrity.
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George Bush pointedly declined to support the United Nations secretary general yesterday after the head of a Senate committee investigating multibillion-dollar abuse of a
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UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said yesterday corruption allegations in the Iraqi oil-for-food program had cast a shadow over the United Nations but said again he would not resign as the world's top diplomat. To meet criticism in the Republican-dominated US Congress that the United Nations was withholding documents, Annan said a UN probe led by Paul Volcker, the former ...
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan ruled  out on Sunday resigning over the Iraq oil-for-food scandal that  is clouding his organization's global prestige.
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The day after disclosing his resignation as US ambassador to the United Nations, John Danforth declined to support embattled Secretary-General Kofi Annan and voiced frustration with his five months of diplomacy.
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President Bush on Thursday declined to endorse a Republican senator's call for U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan to resign but did not offer Annan any words of support.
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: UN secretary-general Kofi Annan said yesterday he was âdisappointedâ his son did not tell him the full story of his ties to a firm involved in the UN oil-for-food programme, now under investigation.