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Fighting Poverty and Deprivation Crucial to Peace
Thursday, 31 July 2003, 12:25 am | United Nations
Ensuring cheap generic drugs and free and fair agricultural trade for poor and developing countries in the face of subsidies, tariffs and quotas from rich nations is crucial to countering the more conventional threats to peace and security from wars and unrest, ... More >>
Liberia Situation Critical: UN Action Urgent
Thursday, 31 July 2003, 12:23 am | United Nations
With United Nations humanitarian officials calling the situation in war-torn Liberia critical, Secretary-General Kofi Annan renewed his appeal today for urgent action to deploy peacekeeping forces in the West African country, where tens of thousands ... More >>
Int Community Wants UN Control In Iraq
Thursday, 31 July 2003, 12:21 am | United Nations
Many countries feel the internationalization of overall operations in Iraq under a United Nations umbrella is important, but a new Security Council resolution giving the world body a broader mandate is not imminent, Secretary-General Kofi Annan said ... More >>
Annan urges Nepalese parties to end conflict
Thursday, 31 July 2003, 12:19 am | United Nations
With peace talks between the Government and the Maoist group in Nepal faltering, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today encouraged the parties to continue efforts to find an enduring solution to the conflict. More >>
Annan appeals to Security Cl to move on Liberia
Thursday, 31 July 2003, 12:18 am | United Nations
Saying he is deeply concerned at the “dramatic deterioration” of the situation in Liberia, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has called on the Security Council to send a multinational peacekeeping force to the war-torn West African country as ... More >>
UN Radio: UN Calls End Military Occupation Of Iraq
Wednesday, 23 July 2003, 10:53 am | United Nations
Secretary-General Kofi Annan says the collective goal remains an early end to the military occupation of Iraq, through the formation of an internationally recognized, representative government. The Secretary-General told the UN Security Council that ... More >>
Annan welcomes Iraqis at Security Council session
Wednesday, 23 July 2003, 10:47 am | United Nations
Welcoming the first Iraqis to address the United Nations Security Council since the fall of Saddam Hussein, Secretary-General Kofi Annan today called Baghdad’s new Governing Council “an important step towards the full restoration of Iraqi sovereignty” and ... More >>
UN And Iraqi Delegation Call For Occupation To End
Wednesday, 23 July 2003, 10:46 am | United Nations
The top United Nations envoy for Iraq and a member of the newly established Iraqi Governing Council both called today for a speedy end to the United States military occupation and the full restoration of the country’s sovereignty. More >>
Security Council: Iraqi Governing Council 1st Step
Wednesday, 23 July 2003, 10:43 am | United Nations
The United Nations Security Council heard its first full update report on Iraq today since it recognized the United States-run Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA), with many members applauding the new Iraqi Governing Council as a step towards the ... More >>
UN closes camp along Pakistani-Afghan border
Wednesday, 23 July 2003, 10:42 am | United Nations
The wait is finally over for thousands of Afghans stranded for the past 18 months – a makeshift camp on the Pakistani-Afghan border was closed today after the United Nations refugee agency moved the last remaining residents to a new settlement inside ... More >>
UN Radio: New WHO Boss Pledges To Fight AIDS
Tuesday, 22 July 2003, 11:40 am | United Nations
The new Director-General of the WHO, Dr Lee Jong Wook of Korea, has assumed leader of the organisation today and pledged to intensify the global war against HIV/AIDS. Dr Jong Wook who was speaking to staff of the WHO in Geneva said that global health ... More >>
UN calls for timetable to end of occupation
Tuesday, 22 July 2003, 11:35 am | United Nations
The day when Iraqis govern themselves must come quickly, and a clear timetable for the restoration of sovereignty with specific steps for the end of United States military occupation is essential if the growing impatience in the country is to be stemmed, ... More >>
Liberia poised between ‘hope and disaster’ – Annan
Tuesday, 22 July 2003, 11:33 am | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today warned that Liberia is “poised between hope and disaster” and stressed that the prompt and urgent deployment of troops is needed to salvage the situation. More >>
Convention against corruption to begin in Vienna
Tuesday, 22 July 2003, 11:32 am | United Nations
The final round of negotiations on a United Nations treaty aimed at fighting the proliferation of corruption began this morning in Vienna, with more than 110 Member States expected to discuss remaining areas of divergence in order to reach consensus. More >>
UN Radio Relief For 100,000s Displaced By Saddam
Monday, 21 July 2003, 9:57 am | United Nations
The head of the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) has called for a solution to the plight of hundreds of thousands of people, mostly Kurds, who were forcibly displaced by the Saddam Hussein government. More >>
Iraq inspections body mourns death of David Kelly
Monday, 21 July 2003, 9:47 am | United Nations
The United Nations body set up to monitor the elimination of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction today mourned the death of David Kelly, a key staff member involved in the arms probe. More >>
UN Radio: Congo's Transitional Govt Sworn In
Friday, 18 July 2003, 11:31 am | United Nations
Members of a new transitional government, which will rule the Democratic Republic of the Congo for the next two years, have been sworn in in the capital Kinshasa. Under the new power-sharing agreement, President Joseph Kabila will be president ... More >>
Early deployment of troops essential in Liberia
Friday, 18 July 2003, 11:27 am | United Nations
With beleaguered Monrovia "simply not safe enough for relief agencies to save the lives that need to be saved," the newly-appointed United Nations envoy for Liberia stressed today that the early deployment of West African troops to the capital ... More >>
Annan hails new power-sharing government in Congo
Friday, 18 July 2003, 11:04 am | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today hailed the historic swearing-in of the four Vice-Presidents who will head up the Democratic Republic of the Congo's (DRC) new power-sharing transitional government as a "milestone" in the ... More >>
UN:Palestine & Israel build peace momentum & trust
Friday, 18 July 2003, 11:02 am | United Nations
With recent progress in the Middle East peace process affording a glimmer of hope, both sides must now build momentum and mutual trust, with the Palestinians disarming terrorists, and Israel easing the daily lives of Palestinians and releasing more ... More >>
