| December 8, 2006 | - President George W. Bush blamed John Bolton's departure from the U.N. on the “shallow politics” of the Senate, and Kofi Annan, who will leave the U.N. on December 31 after completing his second five-year term as secretary general, said that he and Bolton were “both graduating together.”
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Washington Post
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New York Times
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| February 10, 2006 | - Riots over blasphemous cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad broke out in India, Indonesia, Kashmir, Palestine, Thailand, the autonomous Somali region of Puntland, and Afghanistan—where 11 demonstrators were killed, at least 4 of them by NATO troops. A Taliban commander offered 100 kilograms of gold to anyone who killed those responsible for the cartoons. Other anti-Muhammad-cartoon protests were held in London and Philadelphia. U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan called on newspapers to stop re-publishing the drawings, and U.S. President George W. Bush condemned the riots but also criticized publishers. "With freedom," said the President, "comes the responsibility to be thoughtful about others." An Iranian newspaper announced that it would publish cartoons mocking the Holocaust. Flemming Rose, the Danish newspaper editor who published the original caricatures of Muhammad, said that he'd like to re-publish the Holocaust cartoons and was subsequently put on leave by his boss. Danes were increasingly concerned that their country would be singled out for terrorist attacks. "We make fun of everything here," said a carpenter in Copenhagen. "One shouldn't take it so seriously."
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Arab News
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Al Jazeera
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BBC News
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Channel 4
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ReviewJournal.com
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CBC News
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Al Jazeera
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ABC News Online
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Bloomberg News
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| June 2, 2005 | -
U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan said that HIV and AIDS were spreading at an accelerating rate around the world.
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Reuters
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| January 7, 2005 | -
Kofi Annan visited the site of the South Asia tsunami disaster and said, "I have never seen such utter destruction."
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CBS News
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| January 3, 2005 | - Veteran foreign policy experts met with Kofi Annan to teach him how to lead,
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The New York Times
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| June 18, 2004 | - U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan criticized the United States for seeking to extend immunity for American peacekeeping troops from the International Criminal Court.
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Newsday
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| April 8, 2004 | -
United Nations secretary general Kofi Annan, who as the U.N. head of peacekeeping failed to intervene to stop the Rwandan
genocide, said that the reports of massacres and rapes in Sudan "leave me with a deep sense of foreboding."
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New York Times
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| February 26, 2004 | - Clare Short, a Labor member of parliament who resigned from the Blair cabinet over Iraq, charged that British agents had spied on United Nations secretary general Kofi Annan just before the invasion of Iraq, and said that she had seen transcripts of Annan's conversations.
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Independent
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| January 28, 2004 | -
U.N. secretary general Kofi Annan sent a team to Iraq to see whether it was safe enough to hold elections.
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Reuters
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| June 28, 2003 | -
Kofi Annan, the secretary general of the United Nations, called for an international peacekeeping force in Liberia; President Bush called for the resignation of President Charles Taylor; Taylor invited Bush to send American troops to make peace.
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New York Times, Associated Press
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| April 1, 2003 | -
Kofi Annan reminded the United States that the occupying power bears the responsibility for the welfare of the people.
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| October 1, 2002 | -
Secretary General Kofi Annan noted that the United Nations has held 15,484 meetings and issued 5,879 reports over the past two years, and suggested several measures to make the bureaucracy more efficient.
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| April 30, 2002 | -
Israel refused to allow a United Nations fact-finding mission to travel to the Jenin refugee camp to investigate allegations of war crimes.
Yehuda Lancry, Israel's ambassador to the United Nations, told Secretary General Kofi Annan that the mission, if it proceeds, would be permitted to gather facts but not to make any “observations” about the facts.
Amnesty International said it had “credible evidence” that war crimes were committed in the Jenin camp.
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| March 19, 2002 | -
U.N.
secretary general Kofi Annan called on Israel to end its “illegal occupation” of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and the Israeli army stopped a new practice of writing I.D.
numbers on detainees' foreheads and forearms; critics had compared the policy to Nazi branding of concentration-camp inmates.
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| October 16, 2001 | - Secretary General Kofi Annan shared the Nobel Peace Prize with the United Nations.
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| February 6, 2001 | -
United Nations secretary general Kofi Annan presented an 87-point plan to end the suffering of the developing world.
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| September 12, 2000 | - One hundred and forty-nine world leaders disrupted traffic in New York City; United Nations secretary general Kofi Annan warned that disease, poverty, war, hunger, and pollution were difficult problems that required cooperation among nations.
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