Annan Backs Stem Cell Studies, Differs with Bush

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http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=6572639

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Thursday endorsed scientific studies that involve the cloning of human embryos, differing with the Bush administration's push for a treaty to ban such research.

Annan expressed his view as a U.N. committee opened two days of hearings on plans for the drafting of a global treaty on cloning amid signs of ebbing support for the U.S. stance.

All U.N. members basically agree on a pact that would ban the cloning of human beings, an idea first proposed in 2001.

But treaty writers have since been tied up in knots over a push by the United States and Costa Rica to expand the treaty to ban both the cloning of humans and the cloning of human embryos for stem cell or similar research, known as "therapeutic cloning."

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1. Kofi better B careful

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