The U.N.Office on Drugs and Crime says Kenya has agreed to be the first nation in the area to try Somali piracy suspects.

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We've had sanctions on the government of Sudan, and we're prepared to tighten those sanctions and to do so, both unilaterally as well as to work with the U.N. to try to have sanctions imposed multilaterally.

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Undersecretary of State Burns said the U.S. isn't putting all of its eggs in the U.N. basket and will now try to persuade Japan, the European Union and others to take tougher action and encourage banks to cut off lending to Iran.

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Kofi Annan, whose assistants this week used the media to try to decapitate the U.N.

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