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...country's general elections. Haider threatened to resign as governor of the region of Carinthia - he has often threatened to leave politics - after his party's share of the vote fell from 26.9% to 10.2%. CYPRUS Enemies Reunited The Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash told United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan that he is ready for talks on reunification. The decision followed Greek Cypriot support for Annan's plan calling for Cypriot Greeks and Turks, divided since 1974, to unite under a six-member executive council and rotating presidency. IRAQ And What's in Here? After a gap of four...
...Blix says the agency never got the authority it sought to monitor Iraq. On North Korea, he says, it was his IAEA that blew the whistle on Pyongyang's weapons program back in 1994. Blix is also quick to point out that once nominated for the UNMOVIC job - after Kofi Annan had tracked him down on holiday in Antarctica - he was the U.N. Security Council's unanimous choice. The hawks still complain about Blix, but the White House has quietly set about working with him, summoning him for consultation three times in as many weeks before he left for Iraq...
Lewis told the audience that United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan asked last year for the nations of the world to contribute to a fund that would be allocated to fighting AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. Annan appealed especially to wealthy nations, asking for a minimum of $10 billion—but since then only about $2.1 billion has come in, Lewis said...
...Bush's strong statements were directed only at some of NATO's members like France and Germany, and not the entire group or its leader. "Lord Robertson has been particularly strong and visionary," said a senior White House aide Thursday about the NATO secretary general. "This is not like Kofi Annan...
...Iraqi officials, United Nations weapons inspectors are really nothing more than spies. When Saddam's government accepted the UN resolution that enabled their return, Foreign Minister Sabri's letter to Secretary General Kofi Annan denounced the U.S. as "the tyrant of the age" whose allegations against Iraq amounted to "wicked slander...