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...Still, they believe the situation has changed somewhat since the disco bombing, and there have been a lot more actors involved in building this cease-fire - the Russians, the Europeans, Kofi Annan. The Bush administration has taken a more multilateral approach - their more humble goals make them less leery of involving others than the Clinton administration was. And if Powell can come back with a timetable for implementing the Mitchell recommendations, that would be a big step forward...
...Kofi Annan is speaking politely, and optimistically, about his global quest to fight AIDS. But in the end, he may be forced to shame the wealthy countries into doing more to fight a disease that has so far killed some 20 million people and has already selected its next 30 million victims. As the first-ever United Nations General Assembly session dedicated to a health issue got underway on Monday, the U.N. Secretary General told the gathering that "AIDS can no longer do its work in the dark, the world has started to wake up." Indeed, world leaders...
...conscious choice by the world's wealthier nations to let some 30 million poor people die of a treatable disease rather than spend the money on keeping them alive. And that, presumably, is a choice with which the global citizenry won't feel entirely comfortable. At least not if Kofi Annan has anything to do with...
...current cease-fire is not an end in itself, as U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan reminded the players at the weekend. It's a stepping stone to resuming political negotiations. Absent those, the Palestinians have no incentive to keep the peace. But political negotiations are a major problem for Sharon, because he has very little to offer. He believes Oslo is dead, and insists he'll only discuss long-term interim agreements. But for Arafat, the only purpose of talking to the Israelis rather than fighting them is the possibility that this will achieve his cherished Palestinian state...
...issue of AIDS in Africa has also been taken up by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and Secretary-General of the United Nations Kofi Annan. Last month, President Bush pledged $200 million for a global trust fund to fight AIDS. Congress budgeted $460 million for global AIDS programs this year...