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Agricultural key to alleviating Africa's hunger
Thursday, 25 September 2003, 9:12 am | United Nations
A top United Nations official today called for more investment in Africa's agricultural sector in order to boost food production and alleviate the chronic hunger that bedevils one in every three sub-Saharan Africans. More >>
UN urges fight against bias in Eastern Europe
Thursday, 25 September 2003, 9:11 am | United Nations
The Acting United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Bertrand Ramcharan, today called on Eastern and Central European countries to combat extreme nationalism, intolerance and hate speech that he said contributed to bloody conflicts in the Balkans ... More >>
Kofi Annan's address to the UN General Assembly
Wednesday, 24 September 2003, 9:06 am | United Nations
The last twelve months have been very painful for those of us who believe in collective answers to our common problems and challenges. More >>
UN Radio: Annan Bush Chirac Address UN On Iraq
Wednesday, 24 September 2003, 8:34 am | United Nations
UN Radio Special Report: Kofi Annan, George Bush, Jacques Chirac address question of Iraq at opening of UN General Assembly Session More >>
Bush Urges UN Leaders To Help Rebuild Iraq
Wednesday, 24 September 2003, 8:27 am | United Nations
As more than 80 Heads of State and Government convened at United Nations Headquarters in New York today for the start of the General Assembly's annual high-level debate, United States President George W. Bush urged the international community to put aside ... More >>
UN At Crossroads Over The USA's Unilateral Action
Wednesday, 24 September 2003, 8:25 am | United Nations
The unilateralism of recent events has called into question the decades-old tradition of global consensus on collective security and brought the international community to a fork in the road, portending a moment “no less decisive than 1945 itself, when ... More >>
Annan Begins Bilateral Meetings With World Leaders
Wednesday, 24 September 2003, 8:21 am | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan began a daylong series of bilateral meetings with world leaders today on the margins of the General Assembly’s annual high-level debate, conferring with German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, Canadian ... More >>
UN Radio: World Falls Short of Goals to Fight AIDS
Tuesday, 23 September 2003, 9:36 am | United Nations
Secretary-General Kofi Annan says action is still far short of what is needed to defeat HIV/AIDS. The Secretary-General told a high-level meeting on the follow-up to the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS that at the current rate of progress, ... More >>
General Assembly discusses fight against HIV/AIDS
Tuesday, 23 September 2003, 9:31 am | United Nations
The United Nations General Assembly today convened a high-level meeting to discuss a report by Secretary-General Kofi Annan on progress in the worldwide fight against HIV/AIDS. More >>
Annan: AIDS battle has fallen behind schedule
Tuesday, 23 September 2003, 9:28 am | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today called on the international community to drastically step up its battle against HIV/AIDS if there is to be any hope of starting to reduce the scale and impact of the epidemic by 2005, as pledged in the ... More >>
Security Needs Stressed After latest Attack on UN
Tuesday, 23 September 2003, 9:26 am | United Nations
Voicing shock and distress, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan said today the world body was "assessing the situation" following the latest attack on UN premises in Baghdad and stressed the need for a secure environment to be able ... More >>
Steps to combat all aspects of HIV/AIDS pandemic
Tuesday, 23 September 2003, 9:24 am | United Nations
United Nations agencies today used the global forum afforded by a special General Assembly meeting on HIV/AIDS to press for urgent steps to fight the pandemic and all its effects, ranging from providing drugs to 6 million victims in poor nations ... More >>
French judge appointed to UN war crimes court
Tuesday, 23 September 2003, 9:22 am | United Nations
Secretary-General Kofi Annan has appointed a French appellate judge to the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), replacing the current President of the court who resigned to take up duties with the world's ... More >>
Scores of civilians flee fighting in Afghanistan
Monday, 22 September 2003, 10:04 pm | United Nations
Clashes in central Afghanistan have reportedly forced some 60 families to flee, a spokesperson for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said today. More >>
Annan deplores attempted assassination in Iraq
Monday, 22 September 2003, 11:37 am | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan strongly condemned today's assassination attempt against Dr. Akila al-Hashimi, a member of the Iraqi Governing Council, and warned that the attack would only undermine the country's political progress. More >>
UN Radio: Arab States Force Debate On Palestine
Friday, 19 September 2003, 11:42 am | United Nations
UN Radio Special Report: Representation in the UN General Assembly: the question of Taiwan and Iraq More >>
UN: GA special emergency session on Palestine
Friday, 19 September 2003, 11:37 am | United Nations
The United Nations General Assembly will hold a special emergency session tomorrow in a move by Arab and Non-Aligned Movement states to circumvent a United States veto of Tuesday's Security Council resolution demanding that Israel not deport or threaten ... More >>
Liberia: Annan to close old UN office
Friday, 19 September 2003, 11:36 am | United Nations
In light of the impending establishment of a new United Nations mission in Liberia, Secretary-General Kofi Annan has decided to close an office that was set up in the war-torn West African country six years ago but whose efforts to bring peace, reconciliation ... More >>
Medical school to study climate change impact
Friday, 19 September 2003, 11:35 am | United Nations
A United Nations development agency is joining a Swiss global insurer and a United States medical school in an innovative research partnership to evaluate health and economic damages from climate change and associated events, which currently run at ... More >>
UN and global cricket body to fight HIV/AIDS
Friday, 19 September 2003, 11:32 am | United Nations
The Joint United Nations programme on AIDS and the International Cricket Council (ICC) today announced that they have joined forces to use the popular sport to raise public awareness of the pandemic, particularly among young people. More >>
