Church leaders, UN chief discuss Iraq: Greater UN involvement needed
Hours before President Bush addressed the nation on his plans for a June 30 transfer of power in Iraq, church leaders met with United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan to support a larger role for the international body. In the meeting coordinated by the National Council of Churches, ten U.S., Canadian and European church leaders told Annan that the United States can no longer oversee Iraq’s future by itself.