Word: annans
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...reason the Bush Administration won't take the latest firefight to the Security Council is that most of the Council doesn't share Washington's interpretation of the resolution as it applies to the "no-fly" zone. UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has made clear that the international body does not view "no-fly" zone confrontations as a violation of the resolution. "Let me say that I don't think the Council will say that this is in contravention of the resolution that was recently passed," Annan told reporters Tuesday during a visit to Kosovo...
...United Nations Security Council unanimously approved a resolution forcing Iraq to disarm or confront "serious consequences"--most likely war. Iraq's neighbor Syria, widely expected to abstain, was the last country to come around in favor of the measure, after intense lobbying by France, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan and even some moderate Arab states. Annan cautioned Syria, the council's only Arab member, that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein might exploit its nonvote in his propaganda. Now Iraq has until Nov. 15 to accept the terms of the decree; U.N. weapons inspectors must resume work in Iraq...
...execute him. Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatullah Ali Khamenei, warned he would unleash "popular forces" - widely assumed to mean the vigilante Basij militia - if reformers and conservatives failed to end their political sparring. The threat was also thought to be directed at the students, but they remained defiant. CYPRUS Annan's Plan The United Nations gave Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders a peace plan aimed at reuniting the island, which has been divided since 1974, when Turkish troops prevented union with Greece by invading the north of the island. The document, written by U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan with...
...compromise appointment in 2000, when Iraq rejected the Washington-backed Rolf Ekeus to replace Richard Butler, the abrasive Australian whose confrontational tactics had more than once precipitated crises. His reported reluctance to take the job couldn't have been more graphic - Blix was on vacation in Antarctica when Kofi Annan called to recruit...
...epidemic as a threat to global and regional security because of its potential to disrupt the military, political and social aspects of key countries including China, Russia and India. This threat is developing right now, with Russia’s infection rate doubling every year. U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan has called on the world to donate the $10 billion a year necessary to fight these destabilizing epidemics, of which America’s share is $2.5 billion. We should donate at least this figure, because only by balancing our security perspective will we be able to ensure a safer...