By Peter Heinlein United Nations 13 December 2006 Kofi Annan is completing 10 years as U.N. secretary-general to applause and ovations from his legions of fans. In a series of scripted events, he is reliving the glory days of his first term, when he...
By Peter Heinlein United Nations 08 December 2006 U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan has welcomed President Bush's willingness to consider new strategies in Iraq. But as VOA's Peter Heinlein reports from the U.N., Mr. Annan acknowledged that there ar...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 21 November 2006 Mr. Annan speaks to journalists during his last official press conference at the United Nations European headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, Tuesday, Nov 21, 2006 U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan says the Un...
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 15 November 2006 U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan urged feuding Somali leaders to return to the negotiating table and the international community to stop interfering in the Horn of Africa nation's politics. ---- Talks betw...
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 15 November 2006 U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan has opened high-level talks at the U.N. Climate Change conference in Kenya, by urging leaders and their governments to get serious about tackling what he calls the all-enco...
By Peter Heinlein United Nations 19 September 2006 Secretary-General Kofi Annan opened the annual U.N. General Assembly debate with a grim assessment of world progress during his 10-year term in office. ---- Kofi Annan opens his last U.N. General As...
By Peter Heinlein United Nations 13 September 2006 U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan says most leaders he visited on his recent trip to the Middle East told him the U.S. campaign in Iraq has been a disaster for them. In a wide-ranging news conferenc...
By Peter Heinlein 09 September 2006 Kofi Annan U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan has warned Sudan's leaders they could be held responsible for the suffering and death in Darfur if they refuse to allow U.N. peacekeepers into the region. ----- With th...
By Jim Teeple Jerusalem 30 August 2006 U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan has held talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders and urged Israel to lift its blockade of Lebanon and ease restrictions in the Palestinian territories. Israel says Hezbollah...
By Jim Teeple Jerusalem 30 August 2006 United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has appealed to Israel to lift its air and sea blockade of Lebanon. Israeli officials say the blockade can only be lifted when full implementation of the U.N.-mediate...