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Report Recommends Extension Of Monitoring Mission
Wednesday, 27 September 2006, 11:33 am | United Nations
Acting UN Envoy To Ethiopia And Eritrea Delivers Annan’s Latest Report To The Council More >>
Sudan: UN Envoy Calls On All Sides To Resume Talks
Wednesday, 27 September 2006, 12:20 am | United Nations
All sides in the troubled Darfur region of Sudan should mark the Muslim month of Ramadan by resuming peace talks and refraining from the violence that has already claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands and driven around 2 million from their ... More >>
Diamond Industry Can Foster Development
Wednesday, 27 September 2006, 12:18 am | United Nations
The diamond industry, long associated with conflict in Africa, can be a force for positive change through international cooperation, the Foreign Minister of Botswana told the United Nations General Assembly today. More >>
Terrorism Not Associated With Any One Faith
Wednesday, 27 September 2006, 12:14 am | United Nations
Terrorism is a scourge that afflicts all countries and must not be associated with any particular faith, ministers from a number of States told the United Nations General Assembly today during its annual debate. More >>
Peace Process An Example To Other Countries
Wednesday, 27 September 2006, 12:11 am | United Nations
The United Nations-shepherded peace process in Nepal can act as a model for other countries of how to resolve conflicts and it can also demonstrate the importance of democracy, the Himalayan nation’s Deputy Prime Minister told the General Assembly ... More >>
UN Urged To Help Landlocked Developing Countries
Wednesday, 27 September 2006, 12:08 am | United Nations
Nations lacking access to the sea require international support in their efforts to achieve development, the Foreign Minister of Laos told the United Nations General Assembly today as it continued its annual debate. More >>
Israel Could Complete Withdrawal By Saturday
Wednesday, 27 September 2006, 12:03 am | United Nations
The commander of United Nations peacekeepers in Lebanon held talks with senior Lebanese and Israeli military officers today with a view to completing by Saturday Israel’s withdrawal from all the positions it occupied in its northern neighbour during last ... More >>
Counter-Terrorism Trends Risk Violating Rights
Tuesday, 26 September 2006, 2:35 pm | United Nations
Five “current trends” in fighting the global scourge of terrorism risk violating human rights, an independent United Nations expert told the newly established Human Rights Council today as it began the second week of debate on a wide range of issues ... More >>
UN Refugee Agency Computer Game Beats Out Mozart
Tuesday, 26 September 2006, 11:37 am | United Nations
A United Nations computer game aimed at promoting positive attitudes towards refugees by taking players through the trauma of fleeing persecution and seeking asylum has beaten the world famous composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to garner a prestigious ... More >>
Annan Calls For Restructuring Trade
Tuesday, 26 September 2006, 11:35 am | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today again called on the world’s wealthy countries to “go the extra mile” to re-balance the rules of the trading system in favour of the poor and push ahead as soon as possible with the so-called Doha ... More >>
UN Mission In Lebanon Rescues Syrian
Tuesday, 26 September 2006, 11:17 am | United Nations
The United Nations peacekeeping force sent to Lebanon to oversee the cessation of hostilities between Israel and Hizbollah found itself involved in a humanitarian rescue operation over the weekend, plucking from the waves a Syrian who had been ... More >>
Former Prosecutor Goes On Trial At UN Tribunal
Tuesday, 26 September 2006, 10:14 am | United Nations
The United Nations war crimes tribunal for Rwanda today began the trial of a former prosecutor on charges of genocide, extermination and murder for allegedly recruiting, arming and ordering militia to massacre Tutsis and moderate Hutus during the 1994 ... More >>
UN Agency To Produce New List Of Banned Items
Tuesday, 26 September 2006, 10:11 am | United Nations
In an effort to further thwart terrorist plots to blow up airliners, the United Nations aviation agency will this week move ahead on producing a new list of prohibited items that passengers cannot bring on board, such as liquid, gel and aerosol products capable ... More >>
Afghanistan: UN Deplores Murder
Tuesday, 26 September 2006, 10:03 am | United Nations
The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan ( UNAMA) today deplored the “senseless murder” of a leading woman official working for gender equality in the southern city of Kandahar. More >>
UN Calls On Coup Leaderrs To Restore Freedoms
Tuesday, 26 September 2006, 9:45 am | United Nations
Voicing concern over new restrictions on basic human rights in Thailand after last week’s coup, including free assembly and expression, the top United Nations rights official today called on the country’s new leaders to ensure fundamental freedoms ... More >>
Audio: Weekend News Update From The United Nations
Monday, 25 September 2006, 11:12 am | United Nations
Scoop Audio: First Week of the UN General Assembly Draws To A Close - UN Expert Says Torture in Iraq Maybe Worse Now - Time to Rebuild Shattered Bridge to Peace in Mideast: Annan - UN Reports Indiscriminate Bombing in Darfur by Sudan Armed Forces ... More >>
Thailand: Call For Prompt Return to Democracy
Monday, 25 September 2006, 11:09 am | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today called for a “prompt return to civilian, democratic rule” and elections as soon as possible in Thailand following the military coup that ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. More >>
Departing UN Envoy Warns Of Black Hole Of Conflict
Monday, 25 September 2006, 11:05 am | United Nations
Giving his final press conference today after four years in Timor-Leste, the top United Nations envoy warned the country’s leaders that the tiny South-East Asian nation could be sucked into a “black hole” of conflict following the upsurge ... More >>
UN Envoy To Iraq Urges Commuution of Sentences
Monday, 25 September 2006, 10:58 am | United Nations
Expressing "deep concern" that over 140 persons have been sentenced to death and over 50 executed since 2004 in Iraq, the senior United Nations envoy to the war-torn country today urged the Government to commute the sentences of those on death row. More >>
Vulnerability Of Small Island States
Monday, 25 September 2006, 10:37 am | United Nations
The vulnerability of the small island nations of the Pacific Ocean to the forces of nature and shifts in global economic development were the focus of speeches at the United Nations General Assembly today from representatives of five of the region’s ... More >>
