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Kofi Annan's New Zealand Itinerary
Monday, 14 February 2000, 2:54 pm | United Nations
The following is the itinerary for the UN Secretary General's visit to New Zealand from the 22nd to the 24th of February as posted to the UN website. More >>
Countries Falling Short of Social, Economic Goals
Monday, 14 February 2000, 2:10 pm | United Nations
POPULATION DIVISION REPORT `CHARTING THE PROGRESS OF POPULATIONS', INDICATES COUNTRIES FALLING SHORT OF SOCIAL, ECONOMIC GOALS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- More >>
Kofi Annan Address On Peacekeeping
Monday, 14 February 2000, 2:02 pm | United Nations
IN WORLD STILL RIVEN BY CONFLICT, PEACEKEEPING HAS PROUD ROLE, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN BANGKOK ADDRESS More >>
Kofi Annan Address On Shared Global Values And Law
Monday, 14 February 2000, 2:01 pm | United Nations
SECRETARY-GENERAL STRESSES IMPORTANCE OF FULL IMPLEMENTATION AND ENFORCEMENT OF INTERNATIONAL LAW ROOTED IN SHARED GLOBAL VALUES More >>
KOfi Annan Address To UN Trade And Dev. Conference
Monday, 14 February 2000, 1:59 pm | United Nations
SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN ADDRESS TO UN TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCE, FOCUSES ON NEED TO SPREAD BENEFITS OF GLOBAL ECONOMY TO ALL 20000211 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- More >>
Australia Signs Timor Gap Oil Exploration Memo
Monday, 14 February 2000, 1:57 pm | United Nations
Australia and UN mission in East Timor sign agreement on oil exploration in Timor Gap. More >>
UNSG: Broad access to world markets stressed
Monday, 14 February 2000, 1:55 pm | United Nations
11 February --- On the eve of the tenth meeting of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, known as UNCTAD X, the president of the forum said today in Thailand that it was time make a "serious effort" to include civil society ... More >>
Secretary-General Deplores Israeli Air Attacks
Friday, 11 February 2000, 12:51 am | United Nations
The Secretary-General deplores the Israeli air attacks against civilian targets in Lebanon. He is deeply concerned at the escalation of the hostilities, which resulted in the loss of life during the recent days. More >>
Fifteen bodies found buried in East Timor enclave.
Thursday, 3 February 2000, 10:18 am | United Nations
2 February -- A forensic team has exhumed 15 bodies and found the incomplete remains of five others at a gravesite in the East Timorese enclave of Oecusse in West Timor, a UN spokesman said today in New York. More >>
UN: Agreement on new Timor border checkpoints
Friday, 14 January 2000, 11:43 am | United Nations
12 January -- UN, INTERFET, the international security force, and Indonesian military officials today signed a memorandum of understanding intended to improve cooperation at the border between East and West Timor, Fred Eckhard, the spokesman for the Secretary-General, ... More >>
Secretary-General to visit Russia later this month
Friday, 14 January 2000, 11:06 am | United Nations
12 January -- Secretary-General Kofi Annan has been invited by the Russian government to meet with senior government officials in Moscow later this month, his spokesman, Fred Eckhard, said today. More >>
UN East Timor: Police exhumation of mass grave
Friday, 14 January 2000, 11:04 am | United Nations
13 January -- The UN police completed today the exhumation of a mass grave in East Timor, near the town of Liquica, bringing to 16 the total number of bodies discovered at that site, a UN spokesman said in New York. More >>
UN: Obstacles remain to global nuclear disarmament
Friday, 14 January 2000, 11:02 am | United Nations
13 January -- The world has made progress in recent years in fulfilling some of the global nuclear disarmament agenda but the challenges ahead are still formidable, UN Under-Secretary-General for Disarmament Affairs, Jayantha Dhanapala, said Wednesday. More >>
UNHCR concern for civilians trapped in Chechnya
Thursday, 9 December 1999, 9:29 am | United Nations
7 December -- The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Sadako Ogata, has reiterated her concern about the fate of Chechnya's civilian population trapped in the besieged capital, Grozny. More >>
UNSG Kofi Annan "Civil Society" Speech In Montreal
Thursday, 9 December 1999, 9:25 am | United Nations
SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS 'GLOBAL PEOPLE-POWER' BEST THING FOR UNITED NATIONS IN LONG TIME, NEEDING RESPONSE IN PARTNERSHIP WITH CIVIL SOCIETY More >>
Secretary-General pledges quick action
Wednesday, 27 October 1999, 10:54 am | United Nations
25 October -- Calling it an important challenge coming at a crucial time for the people of East Timor, Secretary-General Kofi Annan today said that the United Nations will move quickly to establish the newly-authorized UN Transitional Administration ... More >>
UN transitional administration in East Timor
Wednesday, 27 October 1999, 10:52 am | United Nations
25 October -- The Security Council today decided to set up a United Nations authority in East Timor with a broad mandate designed to help the territory's transition to independence. More >>
In first trips by sea, 2,000 East Timorese return
Wednesday, 27 October 1999, 10:50 am | United Nations
In first trips by sea, some 2,000 displaced East Timorese return home from West Timor: UNHCR More >>
UN Security Council Decision On East Timor
Wednesday, 27 October 1999, 10:29 am | United Nations
SECURITY COUNCIL ESTABLISHES UN TRANSITIONAL ADMINISTRATION IN EAST TIMOR FOR INITIAL PERIOD UNTIL 31 JANUARY 2001 More >>
Report Of The UNSG On The Situation In East Timor
Thursday, 7 October 1999, 3:53 pm | United Nations
1. The present report is submitted pursuant to paragraph 11 of Security Council resolution 1264 (1999) of 15 September 1999, in which the Council invited the Secretary-General to plan and prepare for a United Nations transitional administration in East Timor, ... More >>
