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UN Radio: $2.9 Billion Budget for Next Biennium
Wednesday, 29 October 2003, 10:03 am | United Nations
Secretary-General Kofi Annan has proposed a budget of $2.9 billion to run the affairs of the United Nations for the next two years, a budget which he says better aligns the UN's activities with its priorities. The budget reflects a minimal growth of ... More >>
Annan submits $3.05 billion budget for UN
Wednesday, 29 October 2003, 9:59 am | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today recommended a 0.5 per cent growth in the organization's budget for the 2004-2005 biennium, including small extra expenditures on programmes for Africa, crime prevention and human rights observance, after nearly ... More >>
More than 2.5 million Afghans have returned home
Wednesday, 29 October 2003, 9:57 am | United Nations
The United Nations refugee agency announced today that more than 2.5 million Afghans have returned to their homeland since a repatriation programme began in March last year. More >>
Concern about post-election events in Azerbaijan
Wednesday, 29 October 2003, 9:56 am | United Nations
Four independent United Nations human rights experts are "deeply concerned" about information they have received that one person died, many were injured and hundreds of protesters and election workers were detained in Azerbaijan in connection ... More >>
UN Radio: Annan Condemns Attack on Red Cross HQ
Tuesday, 28 October 2003, 11:41 pm | United Nations
Secretary-General Kofi Annan says today's attack on the Baghdad headquarters of the International Committee of the Red Cross is a crime against humanity. A UN spokesperson says the Secretary-General is also deeply dismayed at the latest series of terrorist ... More >>
UN: Attack on Red Cross 'Crime Against Humanity'
Tuesday, 28 October 2003, 11:38 pm | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today called the bombing of the Red Cross office in Baghdad a "crime against humanity," and condemned all of today's attacks throughout the Iraqi capital. More >>
UN Says Israeli Destruction of Buildings Illegal
Tuesday, 28 October 2003, 11:37 pm | United Nations
The United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan and his senior envoy for the Middle East today strongly deplored Israel’s continuing demolition of Palestinian-owned buildings as illegal, especially the destruction of three 13-story buildings in the ... More >>
UN Radio: Annan Appeals for Funds for Iraq
Friday, 24 October 2003, 10:21 am | United Nations
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan today appealed to donors to give generously for the reconstruction of Iraq. Opening a two-day donor conference in Madrid, Spain, the Secretary-General said the international community looked forward to the earliest ... More >>
Annan opens Madrid donors’ conference for Iraq
Friday, 24 October 2003, 10:15 am | United Nations
– United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today urged some 70 nations at a donors’ conference to “give and give generously” to rebuild Iraq. More >>
Five New Non-Permanent Security Cl Members Elected
Friday, 24 October 2003, 10:14 am | United Nations
Algeria, Benin, Brazil, the Philippines and Romania were elected today to become the next five non-permanent members of the United Nations Security Council. More >>
UN Radio: UN Security Systems Dysfunctional
Thursday, 23 October 2003, 12:26 am | United Nations
An independent inquiry into the security situation at the time of the attack on the UN headquarters in Baghdad found that the attack probably could not have been prevented, but that the death and casualty toll was too high. Twenty-two people lost their lives ... More >>
Panel finds UN security systems dysfunctional
Thursday, 23 October 2003, 12:21 am | United Nations
An independent panel investigating the bombing of the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad said today that the UN's security systems were "dysfunctional," providing little guarantee for personnel safety, and needing to be reformed. More >>
Recommendations of Iraq panel on security
Thursday, 23 October 2003, 12:19 am | United Nations
The United Nations will implement the main recommendations of a panel that investigated the bombing of the UN headquarters in Iraq and which called for reform of the organization's security systems, a spokesperson for Secretary-General Kofi Annan said today. More >>
UN Radio Iran to Allow Tougher Nuclear Inspections
Wednesday, 22 October 2003, 11:33 pm | United Nations
The International Atomic Energy Agency has welcomed news that Iran has agreed to allow tougher UN inspections of its nuclear programme and to suspend its enrichment of uranium. Iran's position came out in talks of senior Iranian officials with the ... More >>
UN & USA need each other says Annan
Wednesday, 22 October 2003, 11:26 pm | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today said that despite fears of a breakdown in international order, some of which he shares, "I believe profoundly that the United States and the United Nations need one another." More >>
UN's GA demands Israel stop work on West Bank wall
Wednesday, 22 October 2003, 11:25 pm | United Nations
UN Assembly demands Israel stop work on West Bank wall, urges sides to honour Road Map More >>
Iran agrees to allow in UN nuke inspectors
Wednesday, 22 October 2003, 11:23 pm | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today welcomed reports that Iran had told visiting European diplomats that it would allow UN inspectors unrestricted access to its nuclear facilities, and he urged the Iranian authorities to further cooperate ... More >>
Israeli separation barrier construction speeded up
Wednesday, 22 October 2003, 11:21 pm | United Nations
Israel has quickened the pace of erecting its separation barrier between itself and Palestinian territories, dividing Palestinian communities and families and threatening to seal off Jerusalem from the West Bank, a senior United Nations official told the ... More >>
UN Radio: Arab Report Focuses on Gap in Knowledge
Tuesday, 21 October 2003, 8:54 am | United Nations
A report commissioned by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) says the Arab countries need to close a growing knowledge gap by promoting education and open intellectual inquiry. More >>
UN Arab development closing the ‘knowledge gap’
Tuesday, 21 October 2003, 8:46 am | United Nations
Arabs, coming from a knowledge-rich past, must urgently close a “growing knowledge gap” in the present by investing heavily in high-quality, analytical education, promoting open intellectual enquiry and developing an authentic Arab knowledge model, a new ... More >>
