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UN: Jordanian Mission Bombing in Iraq Heinous Act
Friday, 8 August 2003, 10:12 am | United Nations
The top United Nations envoy in Iraq today strongly condemned the deadly attack on the Jordanian diplomatic mission in Baghdad as a “heinous act” which resulted in the deaths of numerous innocent people and for which there could be no possible justification. More >>
Liberia: UN Envoy To Talk With Troop Contributors
Friday, 8 August 2003, 10:10 am | United Nations
As the top United Nations envoy for Liberia prepares to meet with potential troop contributors today, West African peacekeepers, logistical equipment and desperately needed humanitarian aid continue to flow toward the war-battered country. More >>
UN Talks With Iran on Enhanced Nuke Safeguards
Friday, 8 August 2003, 10:09 am | United Nations
The United Nations nuclear watchdog agency is holding a series of talks with senior governmental officials in Iran following its call last month for enhanced inspections to guarantee the peaceful nature of the country's nuclear programme after Tehran ... More >>
Security Cl Meet On Rwanda & Yugoslavia Tribunals
Friday, 8 August 2003, 10:07 am | United Nations
The Security Council is scheduled to hold a private meeting tomorrow on the United Nations war crimes tribunals for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia amid discussions that the prosecutor’s post would be more effective if there was one for each court. More >>
UN Radio: Annan Condemns Bomb Attack in Jakarta
Wednesday, 6 August 2003, 10:37 am | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, has strongly condemned the bombing of a luxury hotel in the Indonesian capital Jakarta. Thirteen people were killed in the blast which damaged five floors of the American run Marriott Hotel and injured ... More >>
UN help avert humanitarian crisis in Monrovia
Wednesday, 6 August 2003, 10:33 am | United Nations
With the first contingent of Nigerian peacekeepers now on the ground in Liberia, United Nations and other relief agencies are taking advantage of a lull in the violence to rush food and medical supplies to hundreds of thousands of desperate and hungry ... More >>
Annan condemns bomb explosion in Indonesia
Wednesday, 6 August 2003, 10:32 am | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan was "horrified" at today's bomb explosion at a hotel in Jakarta, Indonesia, condemning the apparent terrorist act and expressing his sympathy for the victims. More >>
UN: All Liberians must cease hostilities at once
Wednesday, 6 August 2003, 10:31 am | United Nations
Pleased with the speedy deployment of a vanguard West African peacekeeping force in Liberia less than three days after its authorization by the United Nations Security Council, Secretary-General Kofi Annan has called on all parties in the country to ... More >>
UN Fund Issue 5.5 Million Iraqi Students Textbooks
Wednesday, 6 August 2003, 10:30 am | United Nations
Some 5.5 million Iraqi students and 25,000 teacher trainees will receive textbooks for the next academic year under a funding agreement approved by a United Nations Security Council committee. More >>
UN Radio: Nigerian UN Troops Deploy To Liberia
Tuesday, 5 August 2003, 10:46 am | United Nations
UN Radio: Special Report - Security Council Authorizes Force for Liberia, but Provision on Exclusive Jurisdiction Causes Dissent among Members More >>
Liberia: UN Airlifts Nigerian Force Into Capital
Tuesday, 5 August 2003, 10:42 am | United Nations
The United Nations today transported the first of two battalions from Nigeria to Liberia’s main airport to set up a forward headquarters for West African troops that will help restore order in the war-torn country. More >>
Kosovo: First Fatal Attack on UN Police Force
Tuesday, 5 August 2003, 10:39 am | United Nations
The United Nations police force in Kosovo suffered its first fatal attack last night when an officer was shot and killed in a sniper ambush while driving towards the former flashpoint town of Mitrovica in what the top UN envoy in the area called a ... More >>
Security Council: Côted’Ivoire multinational force
Tuesday, 5 August 2003, 10:38 am | United Nations
The United Nations Security Council today renewed for six months authorization given to States participating in the West African and French forces policing a peace agreement in Côte d’Ivoire. More >>
Iraq: UN envoy fine-tunes world body's role
Tuesday, 5 August 2003, 10:36 am | United Nations
Continuing his tour of neighbouring countries to drum up support for the political, humanitarian and economic reconstruction of Iraq, top United Nations envoy Sergio Vieira de Mello held long and “very productive” talks in Ankara today with Turkish ... More >>
UN Radio: Liberians Face Shortages of Supplies
Friday, 1 August 2003, 10:13 am | United Nations
Aid agencies in Liberia say that food commodities in Monrovia are in desperately short supply. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reports that shortages of fuel and food continue to drive up the prices of basic commodities. ... More >>
Security Council mulls text on troops for Liberia
Friday, 1 August 2003, 10:09 am | United Nations
As members of the United Nations Security Council consider a draft resolution that may soon send a multinational force to quell the violence in Liberia, UN relief workers inside the country’s war-ravaged capital warned today that conditions are critical, ... More >>
Security Council extends UN mission in West Sahara
Friday, 1 August 2003, 10:07 am | United Nations
Stressing the critical need for a political solution to settle the dispute over Western Sahara, the Security Council today extended by three months the mandate of the United Nations mission there, and called on all the parties to work with the UN, and each ... More >>
UN steps up political assistance to Iraqis
Friday, 1 August 2003, 10:04 am | United Nations
As lack of security continues to cause deep concern among United Nations humanitarian agencies in Iraq, while not as yet hampering their efforts, the world body is stepping up its political assistance to the new Iraqi Governing Council in writing a new constitution ... More >>
Bosnian Serb Gets Life Imprisonment At UN Tribunal
Friday, 1 August 2003, 10:03 am | United Nations
The United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) today convicted a Bosnian Serb doctor of extermination and persecution of Bosnian Muslims, but acquitted him of genocide, and sentenced him to life in prison. More >>
UN Radio: Annan Calls for UN Force In Liberia
Thursday, 31 July 2003, 12:32 am | United Nations
Secretary-General Kofi Annan has asked the Security Council to "authorize a robust mandate for the United Nations peacekeeping force" in Liberia "in order to ensure that it has a credible deterrence capability." More >>
