Bush wants Annan to stay
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US Ambassador to the United Nations John Danforth says the Bush administration has confidence in UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and is not calling for his resignation.
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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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President Bush took a condolence call Thursday from U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, who said he mourned the loss of more than 20 people in an apparent suicide attack at a U.S. military outpost in Mosul, Iraq.
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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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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, in his farewell address, criticized the Bush administration, warning that America must not sacrifice its Democratic ideals while waging war against terrorism.
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Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said today that President Bush asked him to stay on in his current position and he &quot;enthusiastically&quot; accepted.
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UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan is planning to carry on in his job, despite calls by some US lawmakers and news organizations for his resignation.
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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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President George W. Bush has asked Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to stay on in Bush&#39;s second term to keep running the Iraq war and adapting the US military to face post-Cold War threats like terrorism, a senior Bush
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President Bush called for a "full  and open" accounting of the U.N. oil-for-food program on  Thursday but would not say whether he thought U.N.  Secretary-General Kofi Annan should resign.
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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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United Nations member states voiced support for Secretary-General Kofi Annan after a U.S. senator called for him to resign over possible fraud in Iraq's oil-for-food program. The State Department endorsed a Senate investigation of the troubled program but sidestepped the issue of Annan's future.
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President George W. Bush, leaving on  Wednesday for Germany and Russia, will urge key allies to stay  united in their drive to contain the nuclear ambitions of Iran  and North Korea, aides said.
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UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, who recently angered the United States by calling the war in Iraq &quot;illegal,&quot; has weighed in again with a letter to President Bush, British Prime Minister
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President Bush on Wednesday asked  Treasury Secretary John Snow to stay in his job and Snow  agreed, ending a frenzy of speculation that the former railroad  executive and loyal Bush foot soldier was about to be replaced.
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UNITED NATIONS - President Bush defended his decision to invade Iraq in a speech on Tuesday to the United Nations, urging the world community to turn its attention to fighting the war on terrorism and humanitarian concerns.    He told a subdued U.N...
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Relieved at the end of a "horrible year," Secretary-General Kofi Annan insisted Tuesday he has no intention of resigning over an embattled U.N. program to aid Iraqis and will pursue sweeping reforms in his remaining two years in office.