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New UN Leader Names Chief Of Staff, Spokesperson
Wednesday, 3 January 2007, 10:20 am | United Nations
On the eve of taking office as the eighth United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon today named two key members of his team, selecting a former senior Indian government official as chef de cabinet and an award-winning journalist from Haiti as spokesperson ... More >>
UN Report On Haiti Recommends 12-Month Extension
Wednesday, 3 January 2007, 10:12 am | United Nations
Citing “significant challenges” for Haiti’s Government, the United Nations Secretary-General has recommended extending the world body’s mission in the impoverished country for a further 12 months until February 2008. More >>
UN-Backed Body Lowers Export Quotas For Caviar
Wednesday, 3 January 2007, 10:11 am | United Nations
Combined export quotas of Caspian Sea caviar for 2007 have been set 15 per cent lower than for 2005, the last year such quotas were published, as long-term efforts continue to reverse the impact of decades of over-fishing, the United Nations-backed ... More >>
New Secretary-General Ban Takes Over At UN
Wednesday, 3 January 2007, 10:10 am | United Nations
Passing an honour guard and welcomed with applause from staff, new United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived at the world body’s New York Headquarters today for his first official day of work. More >>
Darfur Crisis To Get ‘Highest Attention’
Wednesday, 3 January 2007, 12:38 am | United Nations
Describing the Darfur crisis as one of his top priorities in office, the new Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced plans today to enter immediately into diplomatic efforts to end the bloodshed in the Sudanese region, holding a meeting with his senior envoy ... More >>
Indonesia: Annan Mourns Those Who Died In Sinking
Sunday, 31 December 2006, 2:58 pm | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today mourned the hundreds of people who died when a ferry traveling between Borneo and Java islands in Indonesia sank, and pledged the world body's support in response. More >>
UN Food Agency Resumes Aid Flights To Somalia
Sunday, 31 December 2006, 2:41 pm | United Nations
Following a temporary suspension caused by a recent flare up of violence in Somalia, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today announced a resumption of air aid deliveries to the country, where it is struggling to feed half a million people ... More >>
UN Against Death Penalty, But For Justice
Sunday, 31 December 2006, 2:40 pm | United Nations
Reacting to the imposition of the death sentence against Saddam Hussein, who ruled Iraq with terror for nearly a quarter of a century until his ouster in 2003, the senior United Nations envoy there voiced understanding about the desire for justice ... More >>
Ronaldinho Kicks-Off Institute To Help Poor Youth
Friday, 29 December 2006, 11:58 am | United Nations
Brazilian soccer star Ronaldinho, one of the world’s best known sports figures and a United Nations goodwill ambassador, has launched an institute in Porte Alegre, Brazil, to help disadvantaged children through sport and education, an initiative ... More >>
UN: $241 Million To Help Disaster-Hit Areas
Friday, 29 December 2006, 10:18 am | United Nations
The United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) has furnished $241 million to help provide relief to disaster-hit areas in some 30 countries since its establishment nine months ago, the world body’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs ... More >>
Internet Auction Raises Double Its Target For Poor
Friday, 29 December 2006, 10:17 am | United Nations
An Internet charity auction of fine-dining items, ranging from dinner for two at top international restaurants to rare cookery books to regional baskets of unusual ingredients, has raised more than double its target in a ‘Menu for Hope’ project ... More >>
Somali People Smuggler Boats Capsize Off Yemen
Friday, 29 December 2006, 10:16 am | United Nations
Seventeen people died and some 140 are missing after two smugglers’ boats carrying them across the Gulf of Aden from strife-torn Somalia capsized in the dark off the coast of Yemen, the latest victims of long series of deadly incidents claimed by ... More >>
Georgia & Abkhaz Separatists Urged To Cease Attack
Friday, 29 December 2006, 10:11 am | United Nations
The United Nations Observer Mission in Georgia (UNOMIG) today called on the Government and Abkhaz separatists to cooperate “to prevent any escalation” after attacks killed three Abkhaz militia members in a region where fighting forced nearly 300,000 ... More >>
Final Status Of UN-Run Kosovo To Be Determined
Friday, 29 December 2006, 10:08 am | United Nations
The top United Nations envoy in Kosovo today voiced confidence on reaching a decision on the final status of the Albanian-majority Serbian province that the world body has run since Western forces drove out Yugoslav troops in 1999 amid ethnic fighting. More >>
Tens Of Thousands Of Somalis Fleeing Fighting
Friday, 29 December 2006, 10:07 am | United Nations
The United Nations refugee agency is mobilizing staff and resources in preparation for a possible exodus of tens of thousands of people fleeing fighting in Somalia. More >>
Afghanistan: UN Reaffirms To Help Human Rights
Friday, 29 December 2006, 10:05 am | United Nations
The top United Nations envoy in Afghanistan today pledged the world organization’s support in entrenching fundamental human rights in the strife-torn country. More >>
Sudan Has Accepted UN-African Mission To Darfur
Friday, 29 December 2006, 9:59 am | United Nations
President Omar el-Bashir of Sudan has accepted a three-phased approach leading to the deployment of a hybrid United Nations-African Union (AU) force in the strife-torn Darfur region, Secretary-General Kofi Annan said today. More >>
Neighbours Must Stay Out Of Somalia Fighting
Thursday, 28 December 2006, 3:58 pm | United Nations
Secretary-General Kofi Annan today appealed to Somalia’s neighbours to stay out of the spiralling violence in the country, where Ethiopia has admitted sending troops amid fighting between the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) and the Union of ... More >>
Annan Pays Tribute To Late Us President Ford
Thursday, 28 December 2006, 1:51 pm | United Nations
Secretary-General Kofi Annan today paid tribute to the late former United States President Gerald Ford for his statesmanship and support for the United Nations. More >>
Annan Suggests Cuts Ethiopian-Eritrean Mission
Thursday, 28 December 2006, 1:51 pm | United Nations
Faced with Ethiopia’s refusal to implement the binding decisions of a Boundary Commission and Eritrea’s imposition of “harsh, humiliating impediments,” Secretary-General Kofi Annan is proposing a major reduction in the United Nations mission monitoring ... More >>
