U.N. secretary-general flunks first test
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Ban Ki-moon passed a crucial test in Paris last month, a French-only lunch with President Jacques Chirac.Comment
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi  Annan on Thursday endorsed scientific studies that involve the  cloning of human embryos, differing with the Bush  administration's push for a treaty to ban such research.
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STATE DEPARTMENT Secretary of State Powell is rejecting comments made by the UN secretary-general about the war in Iraq. In an interview with the BBC, Kofi Annan (KOH&#39;-fee AN&#39;-nan) called the US-led military
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The U.N. Secretary-General said on  Sunday he was encouraged by the &quot;credible progress&quot; he felt had  been made towards peace in Darfur during an Africa tour, but it  was too early to talk of tangible results.
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The United Nations has refused a US request to assist Iraqi judges and prosecutors seeking to try former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein and his top lieutenants for war
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TEHRAN -- The UN chief got little satisfaction yesterday at the close of his trip to Tehran, snubbed by Iran's leader over international demands to stop enriching uranium and ignored in warnings not to incite hatred by questioning the Holocaust.
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The U.N. Security Council on Friday urged North Korea not to carry out a planned nuclear-weapon test and warned Pyongyang of unspecified consequences if it did.
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Astana - Seoul, November. 12 KAZINFORM -- A ranking South Korean official on Friday argued it was too early to assume the country will be referred to the UN Security Council for its past nuclear experiments.
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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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Secretary of State Colin Powell  on Friday rejected suggestions that Washington was trying to  edge out the United Nations as leader of the international  relief effort for the Indian Ocean tsunami.
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The head of the UN peacekeeping force in Haiti, Brazilian General Augusto Heleno Ribeiro, said that he regretted the &quot;misinterpretation&quot; of his remarks that linked unrest here with an interview by US presidential candidate John Kerry.
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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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KOFI ANNAN has had better weeks. On Monday, the UN secretary general woke up to a Wall Street Journal column by Glenn Harlan Reynolds, publisher of the influential InstaPundit
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The U.N. Security Council reached broad agreement on a statement warning North Korea against a nuclear test, but Washington backed off earlier language directed at Pyongyang, saying it was not threatening "lethal" action.
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United Nations officials fear that Secretary General Kofi Annan may have lost the confidence of the organization&#39;s most powerful constituent, the United States.
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In his first televised comments since a member of the US Senate called for his resignation, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan shrugged off the senator Tuesday.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Thursday endorsed scientific studies that involve the cloning of human embryos, differing with the Bush administration's push for a treaty to ban such research.