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'Jury Is Still Out' On Iran's Nuclear Ambitions
Monday, 29 November 2004, 10:25 am | United Nations
The United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has accounted for all declared nuclear material in Iran, but it does not have a full picture of Tehran's clandestine arms ambitions, the Agency's chief said today. More >>
UNESCO Denounces Journalist Murders In Philippines
Thursday, 25 November 2004, 11:43 am | United Nations
In yet another bid to defend the freedom of the press, the head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization UNESCO) has denounced the murder of two hard-hitting journalists in the Philippines this month as undermining the ... More >>
UN Envoy Discusses Fallujah With Iraqi President
Thursday, 25 November 2004, 11:42 am | United Nations
The top United Nations envoy for Iraq today discussed the situation in Fallujah with Iraqi President Ghazi al-Yawar, focusing on humanitarian conditions in the town and the impact of the hostilities on the civilian population following the United States ... More >>
Iraq: Annan Condemns Brutal Aid Worker Execution
Thursday, 25 November 2004, 11:41 am | United Nations
Voicing shock and sadness, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today denounced the brutal execution of Margaret Hassan, head of the CARE International office in Iraq who was taken hostage last month. More >>
Annan Welcomes Myanmar Prisoner Release
Thursday, 25 November 2004, 11:39 am | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today welcomed an announcement by the Myanmar Government that it has begun releasing nearly 4,000 prisoners and called for freeing all others detained for their political beliefs. More >>
Locust Swarms Moving Towards Middle East
Thursday, 25 November 2004, 11:38 am | United Nations
Israel, the West Bank and Gaza, Saudi Arabia and Sudan face the possibility of a few desert locust swarms arriving from northern Egypt, though damage to crops is expected to the minimal, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) ... More >>
Global Help Needed To Fight Opium Production
Thursday, 25 November 2004, 11:37 am | United Nations
Alarmed by the massive growth in opium production this year in Afghanistan, the United Nations crime fighting agency today called on the international community to do more in that country's battle against the illicit drug trade or risk a reversal ... More >>
Concern At Threat Of UN's Marginalization
Thursday, 25 November 2004, 11:35 am | United Nations
A group of past Presidents of the General Assembly today voiced their concern at the growing threat of marginalization of the United Nations and called for its main deliberative and legislative body to uphold the principle of international legitimacy ... More >>
Iraq: UN Rights Chief Deplores Aid Official Murder
Thursday, 25 November 2004, 11:34 am | United Nations
UN Rights Chief Deplores Murder Of Aid Official In Iraq, Urges Release Of All Hostages More >>
Rwandan Colonel To Face Genocide Charges
Thursday, 25 November 2004, 11:32 am | United Nations
A former colonel in the Rwandan armed forces has been transferred from the Netherlands, where he was arrested earlier this year, to the United Nations war crime tribunal in Tanzania to face charges of his alleged involvement in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. More >>
UN Starts Clearing Mines From Cyprus Buffer Zone
Thursday, 25 November 2004, 11:31 am | United Nations
The United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) today began a €2.5 million (euro) de-mining project in the country's buffer zone. More >>
Haiti Deteriorating Due To Arms Proliferation
Wednesday, 24 November 2004, 11:47 am | United Nations
The security situation in Haiti has deteriorated over the past three months with a surge of violence, underlining the need to remove all illegal weapons from the streets, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan says in his latest report on ... More >>
Number Of Hiv-Infected Women Rising Worldwide
Wednesday, 24 November 2004, 11:46 am | United Nations
The number of women living with HIV has risen in each region of the world over the past two years, with the steepest increases in East Asia, followed by Eastern Europe and Central Asia, according to a new United Nations report released today. More >>
Rwandan Colonel Pleads Not Guilty To Genocide
Wednesday, 24 November 2004, 11:39 am | United Nations
A former Rwandan army colonel accused of committing war crimes during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda entered a not guilty plea today before the United Nations war crimes tribunal. More >>
Reports Of Refugees Fleeing Camp In Central Iraq
Wednesday, 24 November 2004, 11:38 am | United Nations
The United Nations refugee agency today expressed concern over “alarming” reports that up to a third of the Iranian Kurd refugees at Al Tash camp in Iraq have fled because of the fighting last week around the town of Ramadi. More >>
Colombia: Unrest Could Lead To New Refugee Flood
Wednesday, 24 November 2004, 11:37 am | United Nations
Humanitarian conditions in northwest Colombia are deteriorating, the civilian population is increasingly fearful over the reported massing of leftist guerrillas and rightist paramilitary forces, and there is a high possibility of new large-scale flight, the ... More >>
Annan Voices Hope For Israeli-Palestinian Movement
Wednesday, 24 November 2004, 11:35 am | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today met with fellow members of the so-called diplomatic Quartet seeking to bring peace to the Middle East and told reporters afterwards he believed the time was now ripe to move ahead with a settlement of the ... More >>
Sound Note Of Optimism In War On Disease
Thursday, 18 November 2004, 9:44 am | United Nations
With new technologies and increased financing fuelling optimism in the fight against malaria, which now claims more than 1 million lives each year, the leaders of United Nations campaigns to combat the disease today pledged substantially more funding ... More >>
Time Running Out On Sustainable Development
Thursday, 18 November 2004, 9:43 am | United Nations
Warning that time is running out in the race for sustainable development – vital in the war on growing poverty, hunger, disease and ecological degradation – the United Nations environmental agency is hosting regional meetings and producing a set of ... More >>
Timor-Leste Mission Extended For Final Six Months
Wednesday, 17 November 2004, 11:59 am | United Nations
The United Nations Security Council today unanimously adopted a resolution extending the mandate of the UN mission in Timor-Leste (UNMISET) for another six months before its planned withdrawal from that country next year. More >>
