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...Sistani aides say he suspects this method would allow the Americans and to a lesser degree the Governing Council--the U.S.-appointed group of transitional Iraqi leaders--to engineer the results to their liking. In an effort to mollify Sistani, the U.S. last week persuaded U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan to dispatch a team to Iraq to explore the feasibility of holding elections by June 30. Aides to Sistani told TIME that he would be willing to accept a delay in the planned July handover of power if it meant that elections could be held...
...elections. U.S. officials say that would be too difficult to pull off before the June 30 deadline for the transfer of power. Instead, the U.S. wants the new government to be chosen by local caucuses. Ahead of meetings in New York City this week with U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, Paul Bremer, the U.S. civilian chief in Iraq, said, "We have doubts, as does the Secretary-General, that elections can in fact be called in the time frame of sovereignty to the Iraqi people on June...
...meeting the deadline is going to be tough for the often tardy Clinton. He's been traveling the globe on various projects - last week he popped up at the World Economic Forum in Davos and to give an award to Kofi Annan in Germany. "Interest in the former president has not abated at all," says his attorney Robert Barnett. Still, friends say he's going to bear down on the book. "He's really into it now," says one. With a reported $10 million advance, he has a financial reason as well as an historical one to finish soon...
...vice presidents had already tendered their resignations, but President Mohammed Khatami refused to accept them. Unity Moves turkey The powerful National Security Council called for new negotiations to reunite Cyprus ' Greek-speaking south and Turkish-speaking north, based on the plan devised by U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan. Turkey 's hopes of joining the E.U. will be boosted if a solution is found to the 30-year problem. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan met with Annan at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Going Home middle east Israel and Lebanon 's militant group Hizballah announced a prisoner-swap agreement. Under...
Secretary-General Kofi Annan--who favored direct elections until last week--told me the U.N. would be willing, if asked, to certify the American plan and supervise the caucuses, "if we are sure the process is inclusive and transparent," and then "only if our security considerations can be met." French President Jacques Chirac, another direct-elections fan, seemed to be in a negotiating mood as well. Two weeks ago, he told Senator Joseph Biden that he was open to a modified version of the American caucus plan--and, furthermore, that he would not be opposed to a NATO military presence...