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...question, however, his choice to act alone when a cooperative alternative exists. The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, endorsed by U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan and popularly publicized by the partnership of former Harvard professor Jeffrey Sachs and U2’s lead singer Bono, already has a framework for a similar initiative. This organization has the support and funding of 36 different nations. The United States was called upon to contribute $2.5 billion to the Fund, but to date has only pledged $500 million. Bush even opposed a bipartisan Senate bill in June that would have committed an additional...
...quarter of the island's Turkish population - crowded the streets of Nicosia demanding Denktash sign a U.N. peace deal to reunify Cyprus after 28 years and enable them to join the E.U., as Greek Cypriots are set to do in 2004. Under the plan, which U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan says must be signed by Feb. 28, the two sides would come together in a federation of two autonomous states with a weak central government and a single currency. Many Turkish Cypriots are unemployed and would be happy to abolish their self-declared state - which is only recognized by Turkey...
...largest oil producer. A "Group of Friends," including the U.S., Brazil and Spain, pledged to help President Hugo Chavez negotiate an end to the crisis. Since Dec. 2 opponents have used a general strike to force the leftist President to call immediate elections. Chavez met U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan for talks, which were inconclusive...
...Britain endorsed the U.S. view that the declaration itself put Iraq in "material breach" of Security Council Resolution 1441 - language that could trigger a war. And that's unlikely to change as long as Iraq maintains its current pattern of cooperation with the inspectors. Indeed, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan will have irritated Washington hawks by his New Year's Eve statement that there was "no basis" for attacking Iraq right...
...qualms. Opinion polls in the U.S. find a strong preference among a majority of the electorate for any attack on Iraq to be authorized by the international community. Two thirds of respondents in a Los Angeles poll published on Sunday seemed to be closer to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan than to President Bush in maintaining that a war would be justified only if the United Nations found a repeated pattern of serious violations by Iraq. And some 72 percent felt Bush had not yet laid out convincing evidence of Saddam maintaining prohibited weapons programs. Of even greater concern...