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Syria Troops To Withdraw From Lebanon By 30 April
Tuesday, 5 April 2005, 11:18 am | United Nations
Syria has agreed to withdraw all its troops, military assets and intelligence apparatus from Lebanon by 30 April under United Nations verification, in accordance with a Security Council resolution on the issue. More >>
Envoys Appointed To Help Promote Reform Agenda
Tuesday, 5 April 2005, 11:16 am | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today appointed four world political leaders to help him promote his reform ideas in the period leading up to a high-level General Assembly summit review of the Millennium Declaration in September. More >>
UN Mission In Côte D'ivoire For A Month
Tuesday, 5 April 2005, 11:15 am | United Nations
Security Council Extends Mandate Of UN Mission In Côte D'ivoire For A Month More >>
100 Days After Tsunami, UN Back In 'Emergency Mode
Tuesday, 5 April 2005, 11:14 am | United Nations
One hundred days after the massive 26 December tsunami in the Indian Ocean left an arc of destruction from Thailand to the Horn of Africa, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is back in action providing urgently needed relief to more than ... More >>
Annan Urges World's Parliaments To Power Agenda
Tuesday, 5 April 2005, 11:13 am | United Nations
Secretary-General Kofi Annan has called on the world's parliaments to throw their weight behind his ambitious agenda of United Nations reform so that global leaders will be "ready, willing and able" to take the necessary decisions when ... More >>
Aids-Stricken Botswana Sees No Development
Tuesday, 5 April 2005, 11:12 am | United Nations
With AIDS threatening to reverse socio-economic progress in Botswana, the southern African country has also found that it needs telecommunications innovation, not just infrastructure, to accelerate economic development, a report co-sponsored by the ... More >>
Long-Range Goals For Afghanistan Needed
Tuesday, 5 April 2005, 11:11 am | United Nations
Afghanistan and the international community must agree as soon as possible on a broad agenda of strategic priorities that go beyond the political transition, ranging from fiscal sustainability to regional cooperation to strengthening the protection of ... More >>
UNICEF: World’s Lawmakers Must Protect Children
Tuesday, 5 April 2005, 11:09 am | United Nations
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) today challenged legislators from around the world to do more to protect the health and well-being of youngsters by providing immunization, basic health and nutrition when they are infants while protecting them ... More >>
Disease Outbreak In Angola Now Worst-Ever Recorded
Tuesday, 5 April 2005, 11:06 am | United Nations
As the Marburg virus outbreak in Angola became the worst-ever recorded with 163 cases so far, 150 of them fatal, the United Nations health agency said today significant international aid will be needed to control the rare but highly lethal haemorrhagic ... More >>
New Fund To Help Rwanda Genocide Survivors
Tuesday, 5 April 2005, 10:40 am | United Nations
On the eve of the 11th anniversary of the massacre of Tutsis and moderate Hutus in Rwanda, a senior United Nations official welcomed the establishment of an international fund to help with projects to aid Rwandans with their recovery from the 1994 genocide. More >>
Five More Cases Of Bird Flu Reported In Vietnam
Tuesday, 5 April 2005, 10:32 am | United Nations
Five more human cases of bird flu have been reported in Viet Nam, the United Nations health agency said today, bringing the total since mid-December to 33, 15 of them fatal, in the latest outbreak of a disease that in a worst-case scenario could kill ... More >>
Annan To List Darfur War Crimes Suspects To ICC
Tuesday, 5 April 2005, 10:21 am | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan is expected to transmit to the International Criminal Court (ICC) tomorrow a sealed list of 51 names of people blamed for war crimes and crimes under international law in the conflict between the Sudanese Government, ... More >>
UN Focusses On Effect Of Hiv/Aids On Population
Tuesday, 5 April 2005, 10:02 am | United Nations
Effect Of Hiv/Aids On Population And Development Focus Of UN Commission's Annual Session More >>
UN Agency Helps Some 3,000 Children in Congo
Tuesday, 5 April 2005, 9:38 am | United Nations
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) is helping to maintain a separate space for children in disarmament sites in the northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and while nearly 3,000 youngsters associated with armed militias have ... More >>
UN Mission Searches Villages In Congo For Rebels
Tuesday, 5 April 2005, 9:36 am | United Nations
With one rebel group refusing to join the disarmament programme in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), some 800 United Nations peacekeepers looked for militia members in villages in the northeastern Ituri district over the weekend, returning ... More >>
UN Proposes Raising Number Escaping Slums
Tuesday, 5 April 2005, 12:00 am | United Nations
To reverse the growth of slums in developing countries by the 2020 target date, the world needs to improve the lives of 30 million people per year, not the 5 million originally proposed, the chief of the United Nations agency dealing with urban housing ... More >>
Annan Remembers Pope As Tireless Advocate Of Peace
Monday, 4 April 2005, 1:03 pm | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today remembered Pope John Paul II as a "tireless advocate of peace," while the General Assembly President Jean Ping recalled how the pontiff made great contributions towards upholding the values ... More >>
UN Adopts Draft Treaty Against Nuclear Terrorism
Monday, 4 April 2005, 1:02 pm | United Nations
After seven years of negotiations, a United Nations committee today adopted a draft international treaty to fight nuclear terrorism, with Secretary-General Kofi Annan calling on all states to sign on in order to pre-empt what he called "one of ... More >>
Congolese Refugee Loses Life During Melée At Camp
Monday, 4 April 2005, 1:01 pm | United Nations
A refugee from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) died and two others were injured as United Nations troops sought to protect the life of someone distributing food at a refugee camp in Burundi, the United Nations Operation in Burundi (ONUB) ... More >>
Annan To Chair UN Board Meeting In Geneva
Monday, 4 April 2005, 1:00 pm | United Nations
Secretary-General Kofi Annan will travel early next week to Switzerland and Norway to address or chair several meetings in Geneva and attend a donors' conference in Oslo in support of rehabilitation in southern Sudan, where a peace accord in January ... More >>
