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Kosovo: UN Lifts Immunity Of Police Officers
Wednesday, 21 April 2004, 8:34 am | United Nations
The United Nations has lifted the immunity of four police officers from Jordan detained for questioning in connection with Saturday’s deadly shootings of three of their international colleagues in Kosovo, a UN spokesman said today. More >>
Security Council discusses killing of Hamas leader
Tuesday, 20 April 2004, 11:23 am | United Nations
Less than a month after several countries in the United Nations Security Council condemned the killing of Hamas leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, the 15-member body met today to discuss the assassination by Israel of his replacement, Abdelaziz Rantissi, ... More >>
Rebel Group Atrocities Against Children In Uganda
Monday, 19 April 2004, 1:32 pm | United Nations
Security Council Condemns Rebel Group's Atrocities Against Children In Uganda Highlighting the abduction and forced recruitment of children as soldiers and sex slaves, members of the United Nations Security Council today strongly condemned the atrocities being ... More >>
Removal Of Equipment, Buildings From Iraq Concerns
Monday, 19 April 2004, 1:31 pm | United Nations
UN Nuclear Watchdog Concerned By Removal Of Equipment, Buildings From Iraq The head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog agency says it is concerned that equipment - even entire buildings - and contaminated scrap have been removed from sites in ... More >>
Kosovo Urged To Address Causes Of Recent Violence
Monday, 19 April 2004, 1:26 pm | United Nations
UN Peacekeeping Chief Urges Kosovo To Address Causes Of Recent Violence Kosovo's leaders and its people must take concrete steps to tackle the root causes of the ethnic violence that continues to plague the province, the top United Nations peacekeeping ... More >>
US Wants Multinational Force To Protect UN In Iraq
Monday, 19 April 2004, 1:23 pm | United Nations
US Ambassador Urges New Multinational Force To Protect UN In Iraq Voicing hope that the United Nations would return its personnel to Iraq to help with the transition to sovereignty, the United States Ambassador today suggested the establishment a ... More >>
Security Council Ready To Implement Cyprus Plan
Monday, 19 April 2004, 1:21 pm | United Nations
Security Council Ready To Help Implement Cyprus Plan If It Is Approved - President Members of the United Nations Security Council today said they were ready to help Cyprus implement a plan to reunify the island nation ahead of its entry into the ... More >>
Three ID-ed For UN Oil-For-Food Probe
Monday, 19 April 2004, 1:20 pm | United Nations
Three Persons Identified For Probe Of UN Oil-For-Food, Un Spokesman Confirms Three persons have been identified on the independent panel that will conduct an inquiry into the Oil-for-Food humanitarian relief effort for Iraq, a United Nations spokesperson ... More >>
Cyprus: Security Council Pledge To Help All Sides
Monday, 19 April 2004, 1:12 pm | United Nations
Cyprus: Annan Hails Security Council Pledge To Help All Parties United Nations Secretary-General this evening welcomed the willingness of the Security Council to help all parties fully meet their commitments under the proposed comprehensive settlement of the Cyprus ... More >>
UN Criticises Israel's Construction Of Wall
Monday, 19 April 2004, 1:00 pm | United Nations
UN Meeting Criticizes Impact Of Israel's Construction Of Wall In The West Bank A United Nations meeting on the impact of Israel's construction of a barrier in and around the West Bank concluded today with delegates expressing their deep concern ... More >>
Annan and Blair Meeting Has Iraq Top On Agenda
Friday, 16 April 2004, 12:14 am | United Nations
Iraq will top the agenda for tonight's meeting between United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan and British Prime Minister Tony Blair as they review the current situation, seek a way forward and discuss the UN's role in that country. More >>
Sudan: UN Asks For $115 Million To Help Displaced
Tuesday, 13 April 2004, 9:40 am | United Nations
The United Nations is calling for donors to provide $115 million to alleviate the humanitarian crisis in Sudan's Darfur region, revising its earlier appeal for help for the more than 700,000 people estimated to have become uprooted from their homes ... More >>
Abducted Aid Worker In Dagestan, Russia Released
Tuesday, 13 April 2004, 9:38 am | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today welcomed the release of Arjan Erkel, a volunteer for a non-governmental organization (NGO) who had been kidnapped almost two years while working in the Russian republic of Dagestan. More >>
UN Mission In Dr Of Congo Finds Slain Bodies
Tuesday, 13 April 2004, 9:37 am | United Nations
A United Nations team investigating a report that rampaging gunmen killed at least 25 people during three days of murder, rape and arson last month in a heavily forested district in the eastern area of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has found ... More >>
UN Panel Grants $186 Million In Gulf War I Damages
Tuesday, 13 April 2004, 9:31 am | United Nations
The Geneva-based United Nations Compensation Commission today made available today payments of over $185.8 million in damage awards arising from Iraq's 1990 invasion and subsequent occupation of Kuwait. More >>
Annan Urges Protection Of Iraqi Civilians
Tuesday, 13 April 2004, 9:30 am | United Nations
Voicing grave concern at the recent bloodshed and deteriorating security situation in Iraq, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today urged stepped-up efforts to protect civilians and end the violence. More >>
Envoy Leads Mourners Of Rwanda's 1994 Genocide
Tuesday, 13 April 2004, 9:27 am | United Nations
The United Nations Special Adviser on Africa, Ibrahim Gambari, representing the UN at ceremonies to mark the tenth anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda, today led a silent 3-kilometre march to the Nyanza cemetery, where one of the earliest massacres ... More >>
Brahimi Calls For End To Violence In Iraq
Tuesday, 13 April 2004, 9:26 am | United Nations
Continuing consultations with a broad cross-section of Iraqis on the political transition set for 30 June, United Nations Special Adviser Lakhdar Brahimi today called on the parties in Iraq to end the ongoing conflict. More >>
Annan Urges Cypriots To Seize ‘Unique Opportunity’
Tuesday, 13 April 2004, 9:23 am | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today urged Cypriots to seize the “unique opportunity” to reunite their country ahead of its entry into the European Union on 1 May but also voiced disappointment at opposition to his settlement plan by the ... More >>
Last Month's Deadly Kosovo Riots Leader Arrested
Tuesday, 13 April 2004, 8:59 am | United Nations
United Nations police officers in Kosovo have arrested a Kosovo Albanian man for his alleged role in last month's wave of deadly rioting that swept across the province. More >>
