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Haiti: Leaders Must Account For Crimes
Monday, 1 March 2004, 10:45 am | United Nations
Haiti's current and aspiring leaders will be held to account for any crimes, Annan warns More >>
UN Oversees Libya's Chemical Stockpile Destruction
Monday, 1 March 2004, 10:40 am | United Nations
Libya has announced it will today begin destroying more than 3,300 unfilled bombs, intended for the delivery of chemical weapons, under the supervision of outside inspectors, a United Nations spokesman reported. More >>
UN Workers Under Attack In Southern Sudan
Monday, 1 March 2004, 10:36 am | United Nations
The United Nations today condemned a "deliberate and concerted" attack by armed militia on eight aid workers in southern Sudan that has led to the suspension of humanitarian relief activities in the area. More >>
Full UN Peacekeeping Operation In Côte D'ivoire
Monday, 1 March 2004, 10:34 am | United Nations
The United Nations Security Council today authorized a full one-year peacekeeping operation for Cote d'Ivoire and mandated nearly 7,000 UN personnel to monitor the comprehensive ceasefire agreement the West African country's warring parties reached ... More >>
Food For Survivors Of Uganda Refugee Camp Massacre
Monday, 1 March 2004, 10:32 am | United Nations
The United Nations emergency feeding agency has begun distributing aid to thousands of survivors of a massacre at a refugee camp in northern Uganda where some 200 people, mostly women and children, were hacked with machetes or burned to death last Saturday ... More >>
Repatriating Afghans From Pakistan Resumes
Monday, 1 March 2004, 10:31 am | United Nations
The United Nations refugee agency will next week resume repatriating refugees to Afghanistan from Pakistan, three months after one of its staff members was murdered. More >>
UN Considers International Involvement In Haiti
Friday, 27 February 2004, 2:04 pm | United Nations
Expressing deep concern over the deteriorating political, security and humanitarian situation in Haiti, the United Nations Security Council today pledged to "consider urgently options for international engagement, including that of sending an international ... More >>
Security Council Help Sought As Haiti Worsens
Friday, 27 February 2004, 2:03 pm | United Nations
Given its long record of deploying peacekeeping missions, the United Nations has a special responsibility to help Haiti during a rapidly deteriorating political and security crisis, Jamaican Foreign Minister Keith D. Knight told the United Nations ... More >>
Dumas Appointed Annan's Special Adviser On Haiti
Friday, 27 February 2004, 1:59 pm | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan announced today that he has appointed Trinidad and Tobago's John Reginald Dumas as his Special Adviser to help tackle Haiti's escalating political, economic and social turmoil. More >>
Disaster Looms Millions Southern African Children
Friday, 27 February 2004, 9:26 am | United Nations
Millions of children across Southern Africa are at risk because of a lack of international funds and support, eight United Nations agencies warned today as they launched a mid-term review of their financial appeal for the region. More >>
UN Radio: Annan Says Spying on Him Should Stop
Friday, 27 February 2004, 9:24 am | United Nations
Special Report: President of Georgia Calls on UN Security Council to End Conflict With the Abkhaz Authorities More >>
If Britain U.S. Bugged UN "Practice Must Stop"
Friday, 27 February 2004, 9:20 am | United Nations
Reacting to today's media reports alleging that Secretary-General Kofi Annan's phone conversations were tapped by British intelligence, a United Nations spokesman said if this practice exists it should stop. More >>
Former Macedonia's President Killed In Plane Crash
Friday, 27 February 2004, 9:16 am | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan's top envoy in Kosovo expressed his deep shock and sorrow today at the death of the President Boris Trajkovski of the neighbouring former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and his associates in a plane ... More >>
Côte D'ivoire Peacekeeping Mission To Cost $303m
Friday, 27 February 2004, 9:15 am | United Nations
Deploying a multifaceted United Nations peacekeeping force in Côte d'Ivoire for six months would cost about $303 million, Secretary-General Kofi Annan told the Security Council in a http://www.un.org/Docs/journal/asp/ws.asp?m=S/2004/3/Add.2 letter made ... More >>
Murder Of Five NGO Aid Workers In Afghanistan
Friday, 27 February 2004, 9:13 am | United Nations
The United Nations mission in Afghanistan has strongly condemned yesterday's murder of five non-governmental organization (NGO) staff in an ambush north of Kabul. More >>
Prosecution Case Ends In Miloševic Trial
Friday, 27 February 2004, 8:13 am | United Nations
The United Nations war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia confirmed today that prosecutors have closed their case in the trial of Slobodan Miloševic, ex-President of Yugoslavia. More >>
Haiti: Opposition Rejects Peacemaking Plans
Friday, 27 February 2004, 8:12 am | United Nations
The United Nations Security Council today deplored the Haitian opposition's rejection of proposals from two regional organizations that could form the basis for a peaceful compromise with President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to stem the Caribbean country's ... More >>
Ex-Rwandan Military Commander To 27-Year Jail Term
Thursday, 26 February 2004, 11:15 am | United Nations
The United Nations war crimes tribunal for Rwanda today sentenced a former military commander in the country's armed forces to 27 years in prison for his role in a massacre during the 1994 Rwandan genocide. More >>
Odds Stacked Against Indigenous, Unicef Shows
Thursday, 26 February 2004, 9:22 am | United Nations
Indigenous children have higher mortality rates and lower rates of school enrolment than other children, making them among the most marginalized people in the world, according to research released today by the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF). More >>
UN Warns Asian Bird Flu Outbreaks Still Occurring
Thursday, 26 February 2004, 9:21 am | United Nations
As officials from nearly two dozen Asia-Pacific countries prepared to gather in Bangkok for an emergency meeting on bird flu, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) today warned that outbreaks of the highly virulent disease are still occurring ... More >>
