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"Europe Features
Interview: EU foreign boss Ferrero-Waldner
By Gareth Harding
Sep 12, 2005, 19:00 GMT
BRUSSELS, Belgium (UPI) -- On the eve of the U.N. summit of world leaders in New York, United Press International spoke to European Commission foreign policy chief Benita Ferrero-Waldner about U.N. reform, trans-Atlantic relations and Turkish membership of the bloc.
UPI. Does the EU still have full confidence in U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan after the stinging criticisms about the Iraqi oil-for-food program contained in the recent Volker report?
Ferrero-Waldner. We have full confidence in him, but it is clear that an efficient and well coordinated United Nations is not only a U.S. crusade, but is a concern for us and the whole international community. We are very much in favor of managerial reform and Kofi Annan was the one who started that process. Now he must extend it to those fields that have not been looked into."
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