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Migiro Visits Guinea-Bissau
Monday, 2 July 2007, 9:31 am | United Nations
United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro arrived in Guinea-Bissau today on a visit intended to reaffirm the world body’s support for the West African’s country’s ongoing efforts to consolidate peace, national reconciliation and constitutional ... More >>
Iraq: UN Refugee Agency Issues Appeal
Monday, 2 July 2007, 9:30 am | United Nations
Without immediate evacuation and life-saving medical help, roughly one dozen seriously ill Palestinians – mostly young children stranded in Baghdad or in a make-shift camp close to the Syrian border – could die or suffer complications, the United ... More >>
UN Food Agency Appeals for Funds
Monday, 2 July 2007, 9:30 am | United Nations
The United Nations World Food Programme ( WFP ) today announced plans to assist nearly 200,000 people in Timor-Leste affected by an ongoing drought and appealed for additional funds to provide food aid. More >>
UNESCO Adds New Sites to List
Monday, 2 July 2007, 9:29 am | United Nations
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) today wrapped up this year’s review of its World Heritage List by adding three sites in Serbia, Azerbaijan and Mexico. Today’s inscriptions, which took place during ... More >>
WHO - Findings on Travel and Blood Clots
Monday, 2 July 2007, 9:28 am | United Nations
The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) released today results from a research project warning that the risk of developing fatal blood clots during travel doubles after the passenger has been seated for four hours or more. More >>
UN Children’s Agency Rushes Supplies
Monday, 2 July 2007, 9:25 am | United Nations
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is rushing emergency supplies – including tents food, medicine, hygiene supplies and equipment – to people hit by heavy rains in the western Pakistani province of Balochistan. More >>
UN Refugee Agency Steps Up Activities
Monday, 2 July 2007, 9:24 am | United Nations
To meet the needs of a growing number of Colombian refugees arriving in Venezuela after fleeing violence and threats, United Nations refugee agency is stepping up its intervention along the border. More >>
France And Spain Remain Top Destinations
Monday, 2 July 2007, 9:23 am | United Nations
France and Spain remained the top destinations for visitors in 2006, the United Nations World Tourism Organization ( UNWTO ) said in a new report. More >>
UN Meets With Potential Contributors
Monday, 2 July 2007, 9:23 am | United Nations
The United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) met today with potential contributors of troops and police to the planned African Union-UN hybrid operation for the violence-wracked Darfur region in Sudan. More >>
Security Council Appeals for Elections
Monday, 2 July 2007, 9:22 am | United Nations
United Nations Security Council members today expressed their full support for the Timor-Leste parliamentary elections to be held tomorrow and called on the country’s people to ensure that the polls are free, fair and peaceful. More >>
Secretary-General Welcomes Approval
Monday, 2 July 2007, 9:21 am | United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today welcomed the General Assembly’s decision to approve the thrust of his proposals aimed at strengthening the capacity of the United Nations to mount and sustain peacekeeping operations in an era when the demand for ... More >>
UN-Backed Peace Brokers Hold Fresh Talks
Monday, 2 July 2007, 9:20 am | United Nations
Senior representatives of the Group of Friends of the Secretary-General have held talks with the Georgian and Abkhaz sides amid concerns over tensions in their zone of conflict and the lack of recent dialogue between the two sides, the UN Observer ... More >>
New UN Envoy Appointed
Monday, 2 July 2007, 9:20 am | United Nations
The Security Council today welcomed and agreed to the appointment of Miroslav Lajcák of Slovakia as the new High Representative for the Implementation of the Peace Agreement for Bosnia and Herzegovina. More >>
Secretary-General Deplores Attack
Monday, 2 July 2007, 12:56 am | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today spoke out against recent terrorist activity in the United Kingdom and said he would discuss the matter with the prime minister during a planned visit to London next week. More >>
IAEA Helps Deal With Old Uranium Sites
Saturday, 30 June 2007, 2:45 pm | United Nations
The United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is helping Central Asian countries to take steps toward securing millions of tonnes of uranium tailings -- a potential source of radioactive and heavy metal pollution -- in abandoned sites. More >>
UNICEF Condemns Attacks On Schoolchildren
Saturday, 30 June 2007, 2:43 pm | United Nations
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) today condemned continuing attacks on schoolchildren and educational facilities in conflict zones around the world, citing recent incidents in Asia, the Middle East and Africa. More >>
Ban Ki-Moon Makes Surprise Visit To Afghanistan
Saturday, 30 June 2007, 2:42 pm | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon made a surprise visit to Afghanistan today, meeting with top officials there ahead of a planned conference on the country he will attend early next month in Rome. More >>
Least Developed Countries Vulnerable
Friday, 29 June 2007, 1:24 pm | United Nations
Efforts must be intensified to assist the world’s least developed countries and small island developing States, the most vulnerable nations in the world to the impact of climate change, a top United Nations official said today. More >>
UN Honours Iraq Envoy Slain in 2003
Friday, 29 June 2007, 11:53 am | United Nations
The United Nations today honoured the late Sergio Vieira de Mello with the unveiling in Geneva of a bronze likeness of the 30-year Brazilian veteran of many United Nations peacekeeping operations who was killed during a terrorist attack while on assignment ... More >>
Myanmar Agrees to Address Situation
Friday, 29 June 2007, 11:53 am | United Nations
Wrapping up a five-day official visit to Myanmar, the United Nations envoy for children and armed conflict today its Government has agreed to name an official to deal with the plight of the country’s young in cooperation with the UN. More >>
