Word: annan
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...UNSCOM cover to spy on Iraq. His efforts will likely be in vain, and he may bail even before his contract expires in June. The leading contender to replace him is Argentine diplomat Emilio Cardenas, who will be kept on a tight leash by the Security Council and Kofi Annan. Meanwhile, there?s no sign of an end to the battle of the ?no-fly? zones. As Saddam works to drum up Arab support, TIME Middle East bureau chief Scott MacLeod believes he is hoping that provoking aerial combat will bag him the ultimate propaganda prize -- a downed U.S. pilot...
...Tuesday afternoon, when Butler's report landed in the hands of U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan and the members of the Security Council, the U.S. had begun to accelerate, though quietly, toward war. On the way back from the Middle East on Air Force One on Tuesday morning, Clinton, flanked by Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and National Security Adviser Sandy Berger, called his military advisers and Vice President Al Gore to discuss the Butler report. The group agreed air strikes were the right response. Clinton then got assurances of British participation from Prime Minister Tony Blair...
...soon as the missiles started flying, at 1:06 a.m. Thursday, Baghdad time, so did the questions and recriminations. The bombing was a particularly cruel blow to Annan, who had brokered deal after deal to ward off military action. "This is a sad day for me personally," he said. "What has happened cannot be reversed." In an address to the nation, Clinton claimed he had to strike while the Butler report was hot and because "to initiate military action during Ramadan [coming up over the weekend] would be profoundly offensive to the Muslim world." But even within the American military...
...leaning on Kofi Annan to leave UNSCOM with its teeth, and is promising to use its council veto to keep sanctions intact. But TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell points out that after the bombings, the Security Council just isn?t what it used to be. ?Nobody got a chance to veto when the U.S. and Britain acted alone,? he says. ?For the U.S., which doesn?t even pay its dues, it?s going to be hard to insist on having its way again. Iraq may simply cease to be a Security Council issue.? Which is why Pentagon head William Cohen...
...world's most widely recognized standard for protecting basic human dignity. Predictably, diplomats were falling all over themselves at the United Nations to sing the praises of the document, as delegates from no fewer than 115 countries lined up to speak before the General Assembly. U.N Secretary General Kofi Annan set the tone when he called the declaration "the moral core of all our efforts...