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...There's growing support in the Administration and among lawmakers from both parties for doing just that. Secretary of State Colin Powell has held talks with UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, as well as European foreign ministers on seeking an additional UN mandate for an international force to back up U.S. troops in Iraq. But the political price will not simply be a few slices of humble pie for an Administration that had warned that the UN would become irrelevant if it failed to back the war. The consensus at the UN is likely to be for a significantly expanded...
...collective goal," Annan said introducing the UN report Tuesday, "remains an early end to the military occupation through the formation of an internationally recognized, representative government." Achieving that objective is also, of course, the exit strategy that many on Capitol Hill are demanding, suggesting that despite the prewar tensions, the U.S. and UN may yet reach accord on, and in Iraq. And that news, together with the killing of the brothers Hussein, will be welcomed by most Iraqis...
...June 23 while taking pictures at an antigovernment protest and died in hospital 19 days later from a brain hemorrhage. A presidential commission is looking into her death, but officials said it was too early to give an exact cause. Junta Under Pressure BURMA U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan added to pressure on the ruling generals by calling on them to release democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi. His appeal came shortly after the U.S. Congress agreed to impose sanctions on Burmese exports, in response to Suu Kyi's May 30 detention and the crackdown on her National League...
...same thing - keeping Cyprus divided. On the other side of the green line, Greek Cypriot leaders are equally dismissive. "The new Denktash and the old one are the same package," says government spokesman Kypros Chrysostomides. Serdar concedes that, like his father, he opposes much of U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan's plan for reunifying the island. But he genuinely wants a deal, he claims. "Failure would not be the end of the world," he says, "but we want to build a new future." Serdar rejects the notion that he is being groomed to take his father's spot...
...This is a compromise, and in a compromise, no one gets all that they want." Kofi Annan, U.N. Secretary General, after the U.N. Security Council voted to lift economic sanctions on Iraq...