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...reunification finally at hand for Cyprus? On Feb. 16 Tassos Papadopoulos, 69, grabbed a surprise victory in presidential elections in the Greek section of Cyprus, the Mediterranean island that has been divided into Greek and Turkish enclaves since Turkey invaded the north in 1974. So when U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan visits Cyprus this week as part of an attempt to enforce the U.N.'s Feb. 28 deadline for a plan to stitch the island back together, he will not be dealing with defeated incumbent Glafcos Clerides, who was favorably disposed toward reunification. Instead, Annan will have to address...
...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...
...fifth-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...
...even 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...