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Investigation Into Iraqi Oil-For-Food Programme
Thursday, 18 March 2004, 1:10 pm | United Nations
The United Nations auditing office is continuing its investigation into allegations of corruption within the Iraq Oil-for-Food programme, interviewing a number of former employees of the largest-ever UN humanitarian operation, a spokesman for the world ... More >>
Halt To Deadly Albanian-Serb Violence In Kosovo
Thursday, 18 March 2004, 9:54 am | United Nations
Secretary-General Kofi Annan today called for an immediate halt to the violence between ethnic Albanians and Serbs in United Nations-administered Kosovo, which has reportedly left at least seven people dead and hundreds injured amid repeated bursts of automatic ... More >>
UN Deploys Human Rights Adviser For Central Asia
Thursday, 18 March 2004, 8:57 am | United Nations
The United Nations today announced the deployment of an international human rights expert in Kazakhstan as its regional adviser for Central Asia. More >>
Children's Health In DPR Of Korea Still Threatened
Thursday, 18 March 2004, 8:45 am | United Nations
Despite successes in efforts to save and improve the lives of children in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), the country's social service is in a severe state of decline and poses serious challenges to their future, the head of the United Nations ... More >>
Sudan: Real Security Vital For Refugee Returns
Thursday, 18 March 2004, 8:43 am | United Nations
Preparing for the return of hundreds of thousands of Sudanese to their homeland if current peace talks end two decades of conflict, the United Nations refugee agency stressed today that repatriation could only succeed if potential returnees see real ... More >>
World Must Seek Lasting Social For Refugees - UN
Thursday, 18 March 2004, 8:40 am | United Nations
The global community must look beyond the immediate humanitarian dimension of refugee problems to the economic, social and political aspects in order to prevent protracted crises where too many displaced persons become child soldiers or victims of human ... More >>
UN Food Agencies Supply Food, Aid to Haiti
Thursday, 18 March 2004, 12:39 am | United Nations
As United Nations agencies reported that Haiti's basic services were being restored, one UN food agency said the Ministry of Agriculture was "totally looted" in the outbursts of violence that surrounded the 29 February departure of President ... More >>
UN Warns Central African Republic of Crisis
Thursday, 18 March 2004, 12:32 am | United Nations
A United Nations expert on humanitarian affairs today warned that the Central African Republic (CAR) is running the risk of a major crisis in the next few months as the country struggles to recover from a rebellion that led to a coup a year ago. More >>
US Offers Interest-Bearing Loan To Refurbish UN
Thursday, 18 March 2004, 12:27 am | United Nations
The United States has offered to loan the United Nations $1.2 billion to implement a plan to overhaul the UN's deteriorating New York Headquarters. More >>
UN and Haitian Leadership Meetings Begin
Wednesday, 17 March 2004, 11:46 am | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan's Special Envoy to Haiti today began consulting with the country's leaders on the political and security problems to be addressed in the wake of the departure of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. More >>
Eight New Members on Al-Qaida Monitoring Panel
Wednesday, 17 March 2004, 11:45 am | United Nations
Drawing experts from all regions of the world, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has named six men and two women to a recently established panel helping to track the international sanctions against the Taliban, Al-Qaida and their operatives. More >>
UN Agency Teams With European Police
Wednesday, 17 March 2004, 11:41 am | United Nations
The United Nations crime-fighting agency and its European counterpart signed an agreement today calling for more information sharing and better data collection in a bid to improve their abilities to counter illegal activities. More >>
Urgent Action To Fight Drug-Resistant TB Surge
Wednesday, 17 March 2004, 10:48 am | United Nations
With multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) striking parts of Eastern Europe and Central Asia 10 times more heavily than elsewhere in the world, the United Nations health agency today called for increased action and resources to control the disease, ... More >>
Food Shortage For 2 Million Displaced Colombians
Wednesday, 17 March 2004, 10:47 am | United Nations
A senior official from the United Nations emergency feeding agency voiced concern today over the plight of 2 million Colombians displaced by armed conflict, 80 percent of them lacking access to food. More >>
Spain Explains ETA Reference After Madrid Attack
Wednesday, 17 March 2004, 10:44 am | United Nations
Spain's Ambassador to the United Nations has written to the Security Council explaining his Government's decision to blame the Basque separatist group ETA for last week's terrorist bombing in Madrid in a http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2004/sc8022.doc.htm ... More >>
Iraq: Continued Ban Forced Refugee Repatriations
Wednesday, 17 March 2004, 10:43 am | United Nations
Iraqi asylum seekers must not be repatriated from host countries even if their claims are rejected, the United Nations refugee agency reaffirmed today, citing the "alarming frequency" of violent attacks in Iraq. More >>
Eritrean Road Remains Closed To UN Peacekeepers
Tuesday, 16 March 2004, 11:59 am | United Nations
Eritrea has retained restrictions on the movements of United Nations peacekeepers north of the Temporary Security Zone (TSZ) in the border area with Ethiopia, but Ethiopia lifted its interdictions in the south of the zone, the UN mission to the ... More >>
Entire Societies To Involve In Anti-Drug Fight
Tuesday, 16 March 2004, 10:05 am | United Nations
The main United Nations policy-making body for drug-related matters opened its annual session today with a call for societies to become actively involved in countering substance abuse as a way to achieve better, broader and faster results in international ... More >>
Annan's Envoy Arrives In Haiti
Tuesday, 16 March 2004, 10:04 am | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan's special envoy landed in Haiti's capital today, as the UN assessment mission looking at the security, transportation and humanitarian conditions in the still volatile country continued its work. More >>
Iran Accepts New UN Inspections Starting Next Week
Tuesday, 16 March 2004, 9:32 am | United Nations
Iran will accept the return of weapons experts from the United Nations nuclear watchdog agency later this month, its Director-General announced today in Washington, D.C. More >>
