Personnel Changes, Visits to Hill Part of Effort Initiated by Annan

Repairing Ties With U.S. Is Key, U.N. Officials Say
Colum Lynch, Washington Post Original Article

The United Nations has begun a campaign to mend relations with the Bush administration and with congressional critics who have questioned Secretary General Kofi Annan's fitness to lead the organization after disclosures of sexual misconduct in U.N. peacekeeping missions and corruption in the U.N. oil-for-food program in Iraq.