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Former Soviet States Must Move To Confront Hiv
Friday, 1 April 2005, 12:01 am | United Nations
With 1.4 million people living with HIV/AIDS in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) of former Soviet nations in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, a coordinated response from all sectors of society and leadership at every level are vital to combat ... More >>
UN Mission In Bougainville Scheduled To End
Thursday, 31 March 2005, 11:34 am | United Nations
With elections for the first autonomous government in the Papua New Guinea province of Bougainville scheduled for late May and early June, the United Nations mission there plans to fold its tent at the end of June, a report to the Security Council ... More >>
Neighbouring States To Support Iraqi Transition
Thursday, 31 March 2005, 9:38 am | United Nations
The senior United Nations envoy for Iraq looked beyond its borders today, discussing with Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Mohammed Sabah al-Salim al-Sabah the importance of next month's meeting of neighbouring states in Istanbul in showing a willingness ... More >>
100 Year Dissolution Of Norway-Sweden Union Noted
Thursday, 31 March 2005, 9:37 am | United Nations
The compromises in the Karlstad agreement between Norway and Sweden in the peaceful dissolution of their union 100 years ago are an inspiration to a world still riven by conflict, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan said today, marking the ... More >>
UN's Norwegian Diplomat For South Lebanon Named
Thursday, 31 March 2005, 9:04 am | United Nations
Secretary-General Kofi Annan today nominated a veteran Norwegian diplomat with Middle Eastern and United Nations experience to be his new Personal Representative for southern Lebanon, focusing on containing tensions along the line marking the withdrawal of ... More >>
UN Will Have To Halt Food Aid To North Korea
Thursday, 31 March 2005, 9:03 am | United Nations
Without Fresh Pledges, UN Will Have To Halt Food Aid For Millions In DPR Of Korea More >>
No Evidence Bird Flu Spreads Easily In Humans
Thursday, 31 March 2005, 8:54 am | United Nations
Despite New Bird Flu Cases, No Evidence So Far Of Easy Spread In Humans – UN More >>
Congo: UN Mission To Disarm Foreign Fighters
Thursday, 31 March 2005, 8:53 am | United Nations
The United Nations Security Council today called on the Transitional Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to "develop a joint concept of operations for the disarmament of foreign combatants," together with the UN peacekeeping ... More >>
UN Steps Up Quake Relief Operations
Thursday, 31 March 2005, 8:52 am | United Nations
United Nations agencies stepped up relief operations today on the Indonesian islands ravaged by Monday night's earthquake, with a dedicated fleet of aircraft and boats delivering emergency aid and evacuating the critically injured. Water purification, ... More >>
UN Report Warns Of New Diseases And ‘Dead Zones’
Thursday, 31 March 2005, 8:51 am | United Nations
The emergence of new diseases, sudden changes in water quality, creation of coastal “dead zones,” the collapse of fisheries and shifts in regional climate are just some of the potential consequences of humankind’s degradation of the planet’s ecosystems, ... More >>
Proof In Oil-For-Food Probe Shifts To Accusers
Wednesday, 30 March 2005, 1:01 pm | United Nations
Burden Of Proof In Oil-For-Food Probe Shifts To Accusers Now, UN Official Says More >>
Annan Oil-For-Food Exoneration 'Great Relief'
Wednesday, 30 March 2005, 11:51 am | United Nations
Secretary-General Kofi Annan said today his exoneration by an independent committee probing alleged misconduct and mismanagement in the United Nations Oil-for-Food programme for Iraq of any wrongdoing in the award of a contract to a firm that employed his ... More >>
UN Examines Landlocked Countries Trading Transport
Wednesday, 30 March 2005, 10:08 am | United Nations
A United Nations advocate for landlocked developing countries called on major multilateral organizations today to establish technical cooperation programmes to solve the transport problems impeding free trade by these countries and develop ways to measure progress ... More >>
'Atmosphere Of Secrecy' Shrouds Liberia Govt Pact
Wednesday, 30 March 2005, 10:06 am | United Nations
A United Nations panel appointed to investigate the observance of sanctions against Liberia diamond exports says the Government of the West African country has forged "an exclusive mineral purchase and cooperative development agreement with an ... More >>
Monrovia: UN-Trained Liberian Police Are Deployed
Wednesday, 30 March 2005, 10:05 am | United Nations
Over 100 police recruits fresh from training school have been deployed in the streets of the Liberian capital, Monrovia, as the first contingent of the 1,800 the United Nations peacekeeping mission plans to post throughout the country by the scheduled ... More >>
Quake brings new impetus to rebuilding Maldives
Wednesday, 30 March 2005, 9:43 am | United Nations
Male, Maldives, 29 March 2005 – As the country woke up from an early warning after a massive quake struck the Tsunami zone, an urgent plan for rehabilitation was signed this morning by the Government of the Maldives in partnership with the United Nations ... More >>
WHO To Help Angola Fight Fatal Marburg Disease
Wednesday, 30 March 2005, 9:40 am | United Nations
United Nations agencies are stepping up their efforts to help Angola fight an outbreak of Marburg virus disease, a rare but highly fatal haemorrhagic illness with epidemic potential that has already killed 117 of the 124 victims so far identified in the ... More >>
Aid Offered To DPR Of Korea In Bird Flu Epidemic
Wednesday, 30 March 2005, 9:38 am | United Nations
The United Nations health agency has offered assistance to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) in preparing a response to an epidemic of bird flu among chickens. More >>
Annan Receives Iraq Oil-For-Food Probe Report
Wednesday, 30 March 2005, 9:36 am | United Nations
The independent committee probing alleged misconduct and mismanagement in the United Nations Oil-for-Food programme for Iraq today presented to Secretary-General Kofi Annan a second interim report dealing with the employment of his son by a Swiss company ... More >>
Oil For Food Probe Clears Annan Of Wrongdoing
Wednesday, 30 March 2005, 9:34 am | United Nations
Secretary-General Kofi Annan said today the latest interim report by the independent committee probing alleged misconduct and mismanagement in the United Nations Oil-for-Food programme for Iraq has cleared him of any wrongdoing, specifically in the award of ... More >>
