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Bosnia And Herzegovina To Set Up Asylum System

Thursday, 12 February 2004, 8:46 am | United Nations

Thirteen years after opening an office in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the United Nations refugee agency said today it would gradually refocus its work to helping the country set up its own asylum system. More >>

UN Panel On Decolonization Opens Annual Session

Thursday, 12 February 2004, 8:45 am | United Nations

The United Nations Special Committee on Decolonization opened its annual session in New York today with a call from Secretary-General Kofi Annan for action on the world's remaining 16 Non-Self-Governing Territories. More >>

UN Investigators Find 12 Corpses In Remote Congo

Thursday, 12 February 2004, 8:43 am | United Nations

After several failed attempts to get to a remote village in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to investigate allegations of a massacre last month, a military team from the United Nations mission (MONUC) has arrived in Gobu and found 12 corpses, ... More >>

War Crimes: Miloševic Communications Limites Eased

Wednesday, 11 February 2004, 11:53 am | United Nations

The United Nations war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia has eased the telephone communications restrictions on former Yugoslav President Slobodan Miloševic and Serbian politician Vojislav Šešelj. More >>

Georgia And Abkhazia Reopen Peace Talks - UN

Wednesday, 11 February 2004, 11:51 am | United Nations

Representatives from Georgia and Abkhazia held a second meeting on the issue of security guarantees today, according to a United Nations spokesman. More >>

Hundreds Of Iraqi Refugees Return Home From Iran

Wednesday, 11 February 2004, 10:15 am | United Nations

Over the past two days, 500 Iraqi refugees have left camps in Iran to return to their home country, a spokesman for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) reported today. More >>

UN Oil Or Money Corruption Denied

Wednesday, 11 February 2004, 10:14 am | United Nations

The official in charge of the United Nations humanitarian programme for Iraq today strongly denied charges that he received kickbacks from the former Iraqi regime and challenged accusers to submit proof of their assertions. More >>

Afghanistan Risks Becoming 'Narco-State

Wednesday, 11 February 2004, 10:12 am | United Nations

Unless illegal drug activities in Afghanistan are reined in, the country risks becoming a key player in the narcotics trade now fuelling terrorism, the head of the United Nations anti-drug agency warned today. More >>

UN Strengthen Sanctions Against Al-Qaida

Wednesday, 11 February 2004, 9:46 am | United Nations

The Chairman of a United Nations Security Council committee monitoring the sanctions against Al-Qaida and the Taliban today described a strengthened regime designed to stem the terrorist threat posed by those groups. More >>

Sudanese Refugees Move To Safer Sites In Chad

Wednesday, 11 February 2004, 9:31 am | United Nations

United Nations staff have started evacuating the first of thousands of Sudanese refugees from the Chadian border town of Tine, despite facing blinding sandstorms. More >>

Cameroon-Nigeria Commission Visit Disputed Area

Wednesday, 11 February 2004, 9:25 am | United Nations

The Cameroon-Nigeria Mixed Commission, set up by the United Nations to peacefully resolve the border dispute between the two countries, will make its first field visit later this month to the contested Bakassi Peninsula. More >>

'Heinous' Assassination Of Colombian Journalist

Wednesday, 11 February 2004, 9:23 am | United Nations

The head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) today condemned the "heinous" assassination of an outspoken Colombian journalist and called for the punishment of those responsible. More >>

Venezuela Grants Colombians Refugee Status

Wednesday, 11 February 2004, 9:22 am | United Nations

The United Nations refugee agency today hailed Venezuela's granting of refugee status to the first group of Colombian asylum seekers to pass through its new application process. More >>

Improving Lives Of Elderly With IT

Wednesday, 11 February 2004, 9:21 am | United Nations

With the world's population of people 60 and older increasing by 1.2 million each year, a conference set to begin tomorrow at United Nations Headquarters in New York will look at how information and communication technologies can help meet emerging ... More >>

Protection For Resource-Rich Cloud Forests Urged

Tuesday, 10 February 2004, 11:01 am | United Nations

Forests continually bathed by cloud and fog are home to thousands of rare and endangered species and serve as a key water resource, but they are being threatened by climate change, agriculture and road-building, according to a new United Nations Environment ... More >>

UN Radio: Iraq Elections Before June...

Tuesday, 10 February 2004, 10:57 am | United Nations

A United Nations team is in Iraq meeting with American and Iraqi officials to determine whether elections can be organized by June. The team, led by special envoy Lakhdar Brahimi, arrived in Baghdad on the weekend to assess the feasibility of holding elections ... More >>

UN: Decision on Iraq Elections by February's End

Tuesday, 10 February 2004, 10:50 am | United Nations

As a United Nations team continues talks in Iraq on the feasibility of holding elections before the return of sovereignty at the end of June, as well as other alternatives, Secretary-General Kofi Annan said today he hopes to decide this month on its recommendations. More >>