EU Invites U.N.'s Annan to Summit to Show Support

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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union (news - web sites) has invited Kofi Annan (news - web sites) as a special guest to its summit next Friday to demonstrate support for the U.N. secretary-general amid a campaign in the United States to force him out.


A Dutch EU presidency spokesman confirmed the 25-nation bloc's invitation but declined comment on the political message.


However an EU diplomat said: "The intention is for the EU as a whole to give clear public support to the secretary-general."


The surprise move was decided after the head of a U.S. congressional panel investigating alleged corruption in the United Nations (news - web sites) oil-for-food program in Iraq (news - web sites), Republican Senator Norman Coleman, last week called for Annan to resign.

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