Swedish Ambassador to US endorsed as next UN General Assembly president
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Sweden's Ambassador to the United States, H.E. Mr. Jan Eliasson, was endorsed as president of the UN General Assembly for its sixtieth session, due to begin in September 2005, Ministry for Foreign Affairs said ...
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United Nations member states voiced support for Secretary-General Kofi Annan after a U.S. senator called for him to resign over possible fraud in Iraq's oil-for-food program. The State Department endorsed a Senate investigation of the troubled program but sidestepped the issue of Annan's future.
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South Korea's foreign minister kept his spot as the favorite in the race to succeed UN Secretary General Kofi Annan in an informal poll yesterday, the only one among the seven candidates to get the needed majority of votes. Ban Ki-Moon received 13 votes in favor, one against, and one no opinion, China's UN Ambassador Wang Guangya said. ...
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8 December 2004 - The United Nations General Assembly today gave Secretary-General Kofi Annan a standing ovation and a lengthy round of applause, in what its president called a &quot;rare and valuable homage&quot; and a vote of confidence - a characterization
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The Bush administration said Thursday that it had faith in Secretary-General Kofi Annan and did not want to see him leave office, its first show of support for the UN official since calls for his resignation last week.
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Zalmay Khalilzad, the new U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, has been welcomed with open arms by his fellow delegates since he arrived six months ago.
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UNITED NATIONS -- South Korea's former ambassador to the United Nations, Choi Young-jin, will travel to Ivory Coast in the coming weeks to run the world body's peacekeeping efforts, making him the first South Korean diplomat to lead a major U.N. mission in Africa, and the latest compatriot tapped...
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United Nations, December 10: The US Ambassador to the United Nations, John Danforth, has denied that the United States is trying to push out embattled UN Secretary General Kofi Annan.
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South Korea's foreign minister wins a third informal vote on a new UN secretary general, diplomats say.
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John Danforth, US Ambassador to the United Nations, said that the United States is playing a leading role in helping bring peace to Sudan in Gaston Hall Monday.
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UNITED NATIONS AP) &#151; The United Nations, United States, European Union and Russia announced the appointment Wednesday of Tony Blair as their representative to promote peace between Israel and the Palestinians.
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United Nations: Buoyed by strong support from member nations including four out of five Security Council members, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has firmly rejected the demand of some American lawmakers to resign in view of allegations of corruption in
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Kofi Annan had some strong words Monday for the United States in his farewell speech as secretary-general of the United Nations.
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The Bush administration is not seeking to push UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan out of office over an investigation into the world body&#39;s handling of the Iraq oil-for-food program, the US ambassador to the United Nations has said.
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US envoy John Danforth publicly backed United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, saying ``we are expressing confidence in the secretary-general and his continuing in office&#39;&#39; to end
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Addis Ababa, October 14,2004(WIC)- The Swedish government would increase budgetary support to Ethiopia as part of its development assistance, the country's Ambassador to Ethiopia said.
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Members of the U.N. Security Council met yesterday behind closed doors to discuss the political situation in Burma for the first time, and afterward the U.S. ambassador, John R. Bolton, said the United States would push for a resolution on human rights and freedom for political prisoners to be voted...