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Côte D'ivoire Rebels Preparing For LongTerm Crisis
Wednesday, 30 March 2005, 9:31 am | United Nations
Côte D'ivoire Rebels Preparing For Long-Term Crisis, UN Envoy Tells Security Council More >>
Asia-Pac Delegats Pledge Green-Friendly Approach
Wednesday, 30 March 2005, 9:30 am | United Nations
Delegates At UN Meeting Pledge Green-Friendly Approach To Development In Asia And The Pacific More >>
European Asylum Bill Might Breach Int. Law
Wednesday, 30 March 2005, 9:29 am | United Nations
Reiterating its “serious concerns” over new European Union (EU) legislation on asylum, the United Nations refugee agency today warned that without additional safeguards the measure might lead to breaches of international refugee law, and it urged Member ... More >>
Indonesian Quake: UN Swings Into Action
Wednesday, 30 March 2005, 9:28 am | United Nations
United Nations agencies sprang into action today in Indonesia after last night’s undersea earthquake, sending observation helicopters and boats with relief supplies to islands off the coast of Sumatra, where preliminary reports described the situation ... More >>
UN Calls On Bissau-Guineans To Unite
Wednesday, 30 March 2005, 9:27 am | United Nations
The United Nations special envoy for West Africa today called on the people of Guinea-Bissau to unite in respecting the new 19 June election date, a month later than earlier scheduled, and to do their utmost to put in place a political environment conducive ... More >>
UN on alert after new Indian Ocean quake
Tuesday, 29 March 2005, 4:05 pm | United Nations
28 March 2005 – United Nations offices throughout the area hit by last December's tsunami are on alert after a new earthquake struck the west coast of Indonesia today, and though no tsunamis have been reported this time, the shocks are a wake-up call ... More >>
Press Briefing On Indonesian Earthquake
Tuesday, 29 March 2005, 4:04 pm | United Nations
While no reports had been received of a tsunami wave yet, there was deep concern among the already mentally scarred population, United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator and Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Jan Egeland, said at a press-conference ... More >>
Iraq Oil-For-Food Probe Legal Fees Wont Be Paid
Tuesday, 29 March 2005, 2:13 pm | United Nations
UN Will Not Pay For Legal Fees Of Official Implicated In Iraq Oil-For-Food Probe More >>
UN Envoy Meets With Iraq's Top Shiite Cleric
Tuesday, 29 March 2005, 10:12 am | United Nations
The senior United Nations envoy for Iraq has met with the country's top Shiite Muslim cleric as he begins his ninth week of intensive consultations to ensure that all elements of Iraqi society take part in writing a new constitution after Sunni Arabs ... More >>
Lebanese Ex-Premier's Assassination Probe Needed
Tuesday, 29 March 2005, 10:10 am | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has called on the Security Council to launch an independent international investigation into last month's assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri after receiving the report of a mission ... More >>
Asia-Pacific MPs Seek ‘Green-Friendly’ Development
Tuesday, 29 March 2005, 9:45 am | United Nations
Ministers from Asia and the Pacific opened a two-day meeting under United Nations auspices today in Seoul, Republic of Korea, to draw up a strategy to enhance development without hurting the environment. More >>
UN:Pneumococcal Vaccine Will Save African Children
Tuesday, 29 March 2005, 9:43 am | United Nations
With pneumonia estimated to kill nearly 2 million children worldwide every year, top United Nations health officials have welcomed the results of a pneumococcal conjugate vaccine trial in Gambia as demonstrating that a significant proportion of illness, ... More >>
UN Calls ‘Decent Work’ In Inclusive Globalization
Tuesday, 29 March 2005, 9:40 am | United Nations
The Governing Body of the United Nations labour agency has ended its latest session with a call for an inclusive and equitable globalization ensuring decent work, condemnation of Myanmar’s actions with regard to forced labour and concern over the situation ... More >>
New Asylum Law In Serbia And Montenegro
Tuesday, 29 March 2005, 9:37 am | United Nations
The United Nations refugee agency has welcomed a new asylum law adopted by Serbia and Montenegro as “a concrete step” towards establishing a national asylum system in a country recovering from years of conflict and displacement, thus completing ... More >>
UN Staff Draw Attention To Missing Colleagues
Tuesday, 29 March 2005, 9:35 am | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan called on Members States today to impose greater accountability on those who commit crimes against UN and associated personnel carrying out their assignments, as staff members gathered to draw attention to the ... More >>
Serbs Change Attitude Towards War Crimes Tribunal
Thursday, 24 March 2005, 11:22 am | United Nations
The decision by the Serb entity within Bosnia and Herzegovina to hand over indictees to a United Nations war crimes tribunal seems to signify a change of attitude at last, 10 years after the massacre of up to 8,000 Muslims by Serbs in Srebrenica and ... More >>
Tsunami: UN Words Of Encouragement To Workers
Thursday, 24 March 2005, 11:21 am | United Nations
A senior United Nations envoy for reconstruction in countries hit by December's tsunami has wrapped up a two-day visit to Sri Lanka with a message of encouragement for the humanitarian workers toiling day and night on the front lines of the disaster. More >>
UN Needs $10 Million To Feed Locust Hit Mali
Thursday, 24 March 2005, 11:20 am | United Nations
UN Agency Needs $10 Million To Feed Locust And Drought-Hit People In Mali And Niger More >>
Sierra Leone Welcomes Arrest Alleged War Criminal
Thursday, 24 March 2005, 11:08 am | United Nations
The prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone today welcomed the recent arrest of a Dutch businessman on charges of committing war crimes against Liberians and violating a United Nations arms embargo as "a major blow against Western profiteers ... More >>
Jordan Awarded For Safeguarding Disabled's Rights
Thursday, 24 March 2005, 11:05 am | United Nations
Jordan, presented today with an award for its work on improving the lives of its citizens with disabilities, has made important contributions to the United Nations work on an international convention on the protection and promotion of the rights ... More >>
