Annan, Putin Discuss World’s Trouble Spots
From Times Wire Reports
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan and Russian President Vladimir V. Putin held talks in the Kremlin, touching on conflicts in the Middle East and the Balkans as well as U.N. sanctions on Iraq.
“We agreed that in this interdependent world we need the United Nations more than ever,” Annan told reporters after more than an hour of what he called “good and useful” talks with Putin, Foreign Minister Igor S. Ivanov and Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov.
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