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UN Radio: Return of Iraqi Refugees not Recommended
Friday, 11 July 2003, 10:18 am | United Nations
Secretary-General Kofi Annan has urged African leaders to take the lead in working to end conflicts on the continent. The Secretary-General told a summit of the African Union in Mozambique that while the United Nations and the international community ... More >>
Annan urges African leaders end armed conflicts
Friday, 11 July 2003, 10:13 am | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today told Africa's leaders gathered in Mozambique for the African Union's annual summit that only they could end the devastating armed conflicts that were taking an unconscionable toll on their people ... More >>
Annan & Bush Plan To Meet Monday
Friday, 11 July 2003, 10:12 am | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan plans to travel to Washington on Monday to meet with United States President George W. Bush and his advisers for wide-ranging discussions including Africa, which both are currently visiting, and the Middle East. More >>
Liberia: UN shortages to help desperate civilians
Friday, 11 July 2003, 10:10 am | United Nations
Despite the relative calm in and around Liberia's capital Monrovia, United Nations and other relief workers - faced with an uncertain security environment coupled with shortages of both staff and supplies - are struggling to meet the growing needs thousands ... More >>
Top envoy hears calls for greater UN role in Iraq
Friday, 11 July 2003, 10:08 am | United Nations
As part of his continuing efforts to consult with a full spectrum of Iraqi society, United Nations envoy Sergio Vieira de Mello made his fourth trip outside Baghdad today, visiting the city of Hilla where local leaders called for the UN to play a ... More >>
Latest wave of rebel violence in Burundi condemned
Friday, 11 July 2003, 10:07 am | United Nations
Strongly condemning a series of deadly rebel attacks in and around the Burundian capital of Bujumbura, the United Nations Security Council today expressed deep concern over the latest resumption of hostilities and the deterioration of the humanitarian ... More >>
UN: Role Of Animals In Sars Spread Investigated
Friday, 11 July 2003, 8:53 am | United Nations
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization is sending a leading viral disease expert on a three-week mission to China, to help coordinate an international investigation into the role animals might play in spreading the deadly Severe Acute Respiratory ... More >>
Afghanistan: Doubling Reconstruction Aid Needed
Friday, 11 July 2003, 8:50 am | United Nations
Calling for at least doubling international assistance for Afghanistan, a senior United Nations official said today that international financial commitments were neither large enough nor coming in fast enough to guarantee the war-ravaged country's ... More >>
UN Radio: Int. Stabilisation Force for Liberia
Thursday, 10 July 2003, 10:31 am | United Nations
Plans for the deployment of an international stabilization force in Liberia should be drawn up rapidly. That according to British ambassador Sir Jeremy Greenstock who led a Security Council delegation that has just returned from West Africa. More >>
Secretary-General names new envoy for Liberia
Thursday, 10 July 2003, 10:25 am | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has appointed a senior American diplomat and former top UN official in the Balkans as his new special envoy for Liberia, in light of the rapidly unfolding political events in the war-torn West African nation. More >>
Iraq: top UN envoy meets with US administrator
Thursday, 10 July 2003, 10:23 am | United Nations
United Nations envoy Sergio Vieira de Mello today discussed the evolving political process in Iraq with the head of the United States-run provisional administration, L. Paul Bremer. More >>
Unesco Chief Visits Indonesia, India & Timor-Leste
Thursday, 10 July 2003, 10:07 am | United Nations
Unesco Chief Visits Indonesia, India And Timor-Leste The head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), is in the midst of a three-nation regional tour, which has included stops in Indonesia, India and Timor-Leste, ... More >>
Atomic Watchdog Seeks Nuke Safeguards From Iran
Thursday, 10 July 2003, 10:01 am | United Nations
UN Atomic Watchdog Chief Seeks Additional Nuclear Safeguards From Iran The head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog agency today sought to persuade Iran's leaders to allow enhanced inspections of their nuclear programme, including environmental ... More >>
UN Radio: UNDP Urges More Work in Fighting Poverty
Wednesday, 9 July 2003, 11:59 am | United Nations
The UN Development Programme says rich nations must offer fairer terms of trade and more financial aid, and poor nations should implement wide-ranging reforms to lift millions out of extreme poverty. In its latest Human Development Report, which was ... More >>
Millennium development goals reachable with reform
Wednesday, 9 July 2003, 11:43 am | United Nations
Goals set by the United Nations Millennium Summit to lift millions of people out of poverty by 2015 can only be achieved if poor countries pursue wide-ranging reforms and wealthy nations respond with improved trade terms and increased aid, according ... More >>
Annan arrives in Mozambique ahead African Summit
Wednesday, 9 July 2003, 11:42 am | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan arrived in Mozambique today for a five-day visit that will be highlighted by his address to the African Union summit. More >>
UN strongly condemns Palestinian suicide bombing
Wednesday, 9 July 2003, 11:41 am | United Nations
The top United Nations envoy for the Middle East peace process strongly condemned last night's suicide bombing in central Israel, which killed a 65 year-old woman, and called for political and security talks to continue at full speed. More >>
UN Radio: Security Council Discusses DRC Situation
Tuesday, 8 July 2003, 10:11 am | United Nations
The UN Security Council has been meeting today on the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with a call for human rights crimes to be tried. In his statement to the Council, the Under-Secretary for Peacekeeping, Jean-Marie Guehenno, said violence ... More >>
Annan welcomes Taylor's decision to step down
Tuesday, 8 July 2003, 9:58 am | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has welcomed President Charles Taylor's decision to resign from office and leave Liberia in the interest of peace, and has called on the Liberian people to build on this momentum and work together in the ... More >>
Need to end culture of impunity in DR of Congo
Tuesday, 8 July 2003, 9:57 am | United Nations
Two senior United Nations officials stressed today that while installation of a transitional government in Kinshasa may help return law and order to war-ravaged northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), real progress - and lasting ... More >>
