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Kofi Annan

UN cooperation tops agenda of Annan's visit to China, Ireland and UK

7 October 2004
United Nations cooperation with China and the European Union, as well as peace-building efforts, will be among the topics Secretary-General Kofi Annan is scheduled to address during official visits to China, Ireland and the United Kingdom next week, his spokesman announced today.

US foreign policy expert named as senior aide to Secretary-General

6 August 2004
Secretary-General Kofi Annan today announced the appointment of Robert Orr, a veteran United States expert in foreign affairs, as the new United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Policy Coordination and Strategic Planning.
Secretary-General Kofi Annan

Visit to Darfur region to mark centrepiece of Annan's three-week official trip

24 June 2004
Secretary-General Kofi Annan begins a three-week official trip to the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Europe this weekend, highlighted by a visit to the Darfur region of Sudan - which has been described by senior United Nations officials recently as the scene of the world's worst humanitarian crisis.

Annan to receive Roosevelt Institute's International Four Freedoms Medal

4 May 2004
Secretary-General Kofi Annan will receive the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute's International Four Freedoms Medal this weekend in recognition of his leadership of the United Nations, the organization that the thirty-second President of the United States worked to establish.

Annan discusses economic concerns with Trinidad and Tobago’s Prime Minister

2 January 2004
Economic development, the HIV/AIDS pandemic and regional concerns facing the Caribbean were high on the agenda today during talks between United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan and Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Patrick Manning.

In New Year's message, Annan asks world to battle ills that kill millions

24 December 2003
In a New Year message declaring that the war in Iraq had distracted efforts in 2003 to deal with threats that are more real to most people, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today appealed to world leaders to make 2004 "the year when we begin to turn the tide" against ills that kill millions annually.
Annan and Chinese Premier brief the press

Annan discusses key global issues with Chinese Premier

7 December 2003
Regional hotspots and global epidemics were among the topics touched on today during talks in New York between United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan and China's Prime Minister, Wen Jiabao.
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'We must persevere,' Annan tells Geneva staff in first visit since Baghdad bombing

10 September 2003
In his first opportunity to speak with United Nations staff in Geneva since the 19 August bombing of UN headquarters in Baghdad, Secretary-General Kofi Annan today offered words of comfort and exhorted them to continue their work.
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Annan welcomes Iraqis at Security Council session

22 July 2003
Welcoming the first Iraqis to address the United Nations Security Council since the fall of Saddam Hussein, Secretary-General Kofi Annan today called Baghdad’s new Governing Council “an important step towards the full restoration of Iraqi sovereignty” and laid out five guiding principles for international action.
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Annan and Bush discuss US role in UN peacekeeping force for Liberia

14 July 2003
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan and United States President George W. Bush today discussed a stabilization plan for war-torn Liberia under which the United States would assist a UN peacekeeping force composed of West African nations.