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African Leaders Voice Frustration
Friday, 22 September 2006, 9:49 am | United Nations
The inequities of global trade and the damage as well as benefits that foreign aid can bring were the focus of four speeches from African leaders during the annual debate at the United Nations General Assembly today. More >>
Lebanon Resolution Must Be Carried Out
Friday, 22 September 2006, 9:46 am | United Nations
The Foreign Minister of Israel today called for full implementation of Security Council resolution 1701, the landmark text that ended the recent war in Lebanon and mandated an expansion of the United Nations Force there. More >>
UN Marks International Peace Day
Friday, 22 September 2006, 9:44 am | United Nations
In New York Secretary-General Kofi Annan rang the Peace Bell, on the conflict-seared fields of Somalia appeals rang out to end the violence, and in Afghanistan children flew the once forbidden kites of hope as the United Nations system today marked the ... More >>
Support For Annan’s Peace Initiatives
Thursday, 21 September 2006, 10:48 am | United Nations
Efforts to settle the Cyprus problem should be carried out under the auspices of the United Nations, the president of the country said today, voicing support for Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s latest initiatives. More >>
Rwandan Aquitted Of Genocide Charges
Thursday, 21 September 2006, 10:46 am | United Nations
The United Nations war crimes tribunal for Rwanda today unanimously acquitted a former Rwandan education minister of all charges brought against him in connection with the 1994 genocide in the small central African country on the grounds that they were ... More >>
Annan Calls For Anti-Terrorism Co-operation
Thursday, 21 September 2006, 10:43 am | United Nations
Urging United Nations Member States to seize the opportunity to prove that collective action works when fighting terrorism, Secretary-General Kofi Annan today formally launched the UN’s Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy. More >>
Peace Is 'Taking Root In Middle East'
Thursday, 21 September 2006, 10:40 am | United Nations
Addressing the United Nations General Assembly today, United States President George W. Bush said peace is taking root in the Middle East and pledged further efforts to help the region’s people solidify progress. More >>
General Assembly President Urges Focus On Action
Thursday, 21 September 2006, 10:37 am | United Nations
As national leaders from across the world gathered at the United Nations for its annual general debate, the President of the General Assembly urged them to focus on translating commitments into action that will make a tangible difference in the ... More >>
UN Migration Meeting Opened New Avenues
Thursday, 21 September 2006, 10:34 am | United Nations
The President of the United Nations General Assembly today said the body’s recent session on international migration served to underscore how today’s integrated world can serve a positive engine of change. More >>
UN Envoy In Timor-Leste Calls For Unity
Thursday, 21 September 2006, 10:32 am | United Nations
Urging all Timorese to work together in the wake of the deadly violence that flared up this year in the tiny South-East Asian country, the top United Nations envoy today pledged increased support for the fledgling judicial system, while the UN’s senior ... More >>
500,000 Displaced People In Need
Thursday, 21 September 2006, 10:30 am | United Nations
Governments in the Balkans should speedily implement a pact signed last year dealing with the return more than 500,000 displaced people to their homes, the United Nations refugee agency urged today, saying much more needed to be done if a December deadline ... More >>
Call For UN To Match Hopes Of ‘African Century’
Thursday, 21 September 2006, 10:27 am | United Nations
The President of South Africa today urged the United Nations to live up to the promises of an ‘African Century’ marked by renewal on a continent that has known great degrees of suffering. More >>
Annan Expresses Alarm At Reports Of Coup
Thursday, 21 September 2006, 10:22 am | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan voiced concern today at news of a military coup in Thailand, saying he was disturbed at any change of power through undemocratic means. More >>
Global Action Required For World Challenges
Thursday, 21 September 2006, 10:20 am | United Nations
Countries will only overcome the “three great challenges” of development, security and human rights if they take action together, globally and coordinated through the United Nations, Secretary-General Kofi Annan said today in a wide-ranging speech ... More >>
Iraq: UN Paints Grim Human Rights Picture
Thursday, 21 September 2006, 10:17 am | United Nations
Iraq: UN Paints Grim Human Rights Picture As Killings Spike; Faults Lack Of Central Control More >>
Annan Launches Unitaid
Thursday, 21 September 2006, 9:59 am | United Nations
Describing it as a “life-saving initiative”, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today officially launched UNITAID, an international drug purchasing facility that will provide medicine and treatment against HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis ... More >>
Palestinians In Gaza Need International Food Aid
Thursday, 21 September 2006, 9:56 am | United Nations
With the new school year beginning in just a few days, 70 per cent of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip cannot feed themselves without assistance, a 30 per cent increase in the number in just over a year, the United Nations World Food Programme ( WFP ... More >>
UN Grants Emergency Funding To Flood Victims
Thursday, 21 September 2006, 9:52 am | United Nations
As the number of people affected by the ongoing floods in seven of Ethiopia’s nine regions rises to more than 363,000 – including more than 145,000 who have been displaced – the United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator Jan Egeland has approved ... More >>
UN Atomic Chief Call For Uranium Fuel
Thursday, 21 September 2006, 9:50 am | United Nations
At a time of growing global energy demand, mounting concern over nuclear proliferation as evidenced in Iran and the danger of nuclear materials falling into terrorist hands, the head of the United Nations atomic watchdog today called for conversion of enrichment ... More >>
Oppression Of Muslims Only Fosters Terrorism
Wednesday, 20 September 2006, 5:24 pm | United Nations
Terrorism and extremism will continue to attract alienated Muslims until “the foreign occupation and suppression of Muslim peoples” are ended, Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf told the United Nations General Assembly today. More >>
