Annan: Iran intervention would be unwise
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Tuesday a negotiated settlement with Iran over its nuclear program should be sought, and he warned that military intervention would be "unwise and disastrous."
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In his first major foreign policy speech as president, Nicolas Sarkozy of France said yesterday that Iran could be attacked militarily if it did not live up to its international obligations to curb its nuclear program.
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Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki urged the U.N. Security Council on Saturday to wait for a report from its atomic watchdog agency before taking any decision on a new sanctions resolution.
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The head of the UN's nuclear watchdog says attacking Iran to stop its nuclear programme would be "madness".
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Iran's foreign minister urges restraint over a new draft UN sanctions resolution, in a BBC interview.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi   Annan has been asked by a leading American Jewish group to   speak out against Iran's Holocaust cartoon exhibition when he   travels to Tehran next week.
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President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told U.N.   Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Sunday Iran wanted to find a   negotiated solution to its nuclear dispute with the West but   would not freeze uranium enrichment ahead of any talks.
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It's not going to be pretty folks.  Mr. Sarkozy praised the current diplomatic initiative by the world's powers, a two-pronged approach that threatens tougher United Nations-mandated sanctions if Iran does not stop enriching uranium for possible use in a nuclear weapon, but holds out the possibility of incentives if Iran complies.   That approach, he said, "is the only one that can enable us to avoid being faced with an alternative that I call catastrophic: an Iranian bomb or the bombing of Iran."
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U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan meets   Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Sunday after a U.N.   official said Tehran would cooperate on a truce between Israel   and the Iranian-backed Lebanese group Hizbollah.
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United Nations: UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has strongly opposed US plans for a major military assault on the Iraqi city of Fallujah, warning that it could further divide Iraqi people and affect the January polls in the war-ravaged country.
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LONDON  - A military attack on Iran's nuclear facilities would be a mistake, the European Union's foreign policy chief said in an interview for broadcast Sunday.
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Iran fails to comply with demands to halt uranium enrichment, UN watchdog says.
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Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr   Mottaki offered U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan Iran's full   cooperation over a Security Council resolution on the   Israel-Hizbollah truce, a U.N. spokesman said after talks on   Saturday.
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U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan on   Sunday condemned an exhibition of cartoons about the Holocaust   in Iran and told Iranians the Holocaust was "an undeniable   historical fact."
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The UN's nuclear watchdog warns "new crazies" against bombing Iran to stop its nuclear programme.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan warned on Sunday the world could soon face a cascade of countries acquiring nuclear weapons unless it took action to tighten existing controls.
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The international community should not   isolate Iran, which has indicated it will cooperate in the   reconstruction of Lebanon, United Nations Secretary-General   Kofi Annan told a Spanish newspaper.