Word: annan
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...Kofi Annan received a hero's welcome from United Nations employees Tuesday, the agreement he signed is not entirely pretty reading for Washington. The two-page memo gives the Secretary General carte blanche to pick and choose members of the "special group" that will inspect the eight disputed Presidential Palaces. For Annan, "it's a masterful piece of diplomacy," says TIME's U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "He came back and he's in charge...
...print -- spent its Monday spin cycle qualifying President Clinton's earlier endorsement. NSA advisor Sandy Berger described the deal as merely an outline of "some basic principles," and added the U.S. would work to ensure it resulted in "rigorous and professional" inspections. If it doesn't, at least the Annan accord gives Washington much more of the missing ingredient in this winter's noisy efforts to face down Iraq: a legal and moral basis for military action...
WASHINGTON: Whether or not Kofi Annan's deal with Baghdad stands the test of time, it was hard to deny Tuesday that the U.N. chief had done the U.S. a sizable favor. The deal gives President Clinton a temporary out from a war that lacked domestic support, as well as fresh justification to attack should Saddam renege again. Annan was even gracious enough to credit the U.S. military as the "big stick" that made the deal possible...
BAGHDAD: It?s already being called the Baghdad Accord, but there?s no word yet on whether the deal inked Monday by Kofi Annan and Tariq Aziz will bring closure to the standoff over weapons inspectors. Has the secretary general averted war? ?I hope so. I think I have,? Annan told CNN. The devil is in the details, of course, and we won?t see those until Tuesday?s Security Council meeting. But all signs point to a deal that brings Iraq in line with U.N. resolutions. ?It is in conformity in terms of spirit and in terms of intent...
...Naturally, the U.S. remains skeptical. National Security Advisor Sandy Berger had just three words: ?Wait and see.? But Annan, a wily diplomat who was Washington?s pick for the top job, is unlikely to disappoint. He knows a deal that ties UNSCOM?s hands is not worth coming back to New York with. His spokesman Fred Eckhard indicated that one of the major hurdles in previous Iraqi offers -- time limits on weapons inspections -- was not present in this deal. So how did Annan do it? The so-called ?white glove? solution, diplomats accompanying inspectors, is one possibility, but that...