The EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton has called for a rapid appointment by the UN and the Arab League of a successor to Kofi Annan.

FORMER UN secretary general Kofi Annan has called on the Irish people to vote yes to the Lisbon Treaty.

Police fired tear gas to break up pro-government demonstrations in Kenya today in advance of the arrival of former UN chief Kofi Annan on a peacemaking mission.

THE UN Human Rights Council will hold a special session on violations in Sudan’s strife-torn western region of Darfur today, after a rebuke from Kofi Annan that it has not paid enough attention to rights violations in the province.

Arab foreign ministers met in Cairo today to promote a plan to revive the deadlocked Middle East peace process amid wide Arab fears the recent war in Lebanon helped boost the influence of Iran and the militants it supports.

A BUSINESS executive who wrote an email suggesting that Kofi Annan may have known about a UN oil-for-food contract awarded to his son's company denies ever talking to the UN secretary-general about the firm's bid.

The committee probing the UN oil-for-food programme has announced it will again investigate Secretary-General Kofi Annan after two previously unknown emails suggested he may have known more than he claimed about a multi-million-dollar UN contract awarded to the company that employed his son.

TRÓCAIRE’s director, Mr Justin Kilcullen (Irish Examiner, October 14) is so far out of touch in his adulation of the UN as to be beyond belief.

British agents spied on United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan in the run-up to the Iraqi war, former British International Development Secretary Clare Short has claimed.