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Next Secretary-General: UN considers names in July
Saturday, 3 June 2006, 5:05 pm | United Nations
The United Nations Security Council will start considering candidates for the post of Secretary-General next month, its current president Ambassador Ellen Margrethe Løj of Denmark said in a letter released today. More >>
AIDs: Celebrities, activists join diplomats at UN
Saturday, 3 June 2006, 5:03 pm | United Nations
An international array of musicians, actors and other performers joined senior diplomats, activists and business leaders gathered at the United Nations in New York on Thursday evening under the theme ‘Uniting the World Against AIDS: An Evening of Remembrance ... More >>
Iraq: Alarm over killings of Palestinians
Saturday, 3 June 2006, 5:00 pm | United Nations
The United Nations refugee agency voiced alarm today over a fresh spate of killings, kidnappings and threats in Baghdad that have led to mounting fear among Iraq’s 24,000-strong Palestinian refugee community, sending hundreds of them fleeing to border areas. More >>
Annan urges unified fight against AIDS
Thursday, 1 June 2006, 8:03 pm | United Nations
As the United Nations General Assembly today opened a special meeting on HIV/AIDS, Secretary General Kofi Annan urged participants – including a dozen heads of State and numerous ministers – to unify their efforts to fight the disease especially as ... More >>
Congo: Attack on Nepalese peacekeepers condemned
Thursday, 1 June 2006, 8:01 pm | United Nations
Secretary-General Kofi Annan today condemned a recent fatal attack on Nepalese United Nations peacekeepers serving in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and urged the release of those detained after a confrontation with armed militias. More >>
Africa’s conflicts: Global efforts could spell end
Thursday, 1 June 2006, 7:59 pm | United Nations
International strategies for conflict resolution in Africa such as those put forward by United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan take into account the many dimensions of the violent crises shaking the continent and could pave the way for their resolution, ... More >>
Renewing UN Ethiopia-Eritrea mission for 4 months
Thursday, 1 June 2006, 7:58 pm | United Nations
The United Nations Security Council today extended the mandate of the UN Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) for four months while reducing the authorized troop level of the operation keeping the peace on the disputed border between the two Horn ... More >>
‘Jobs, jobs, jobs’ are Liberia’s top priority – UN
Thursday, 1 June 2006, 7:56 pm | United Nations
With unemployment running at an estimated 85 per cent in Liberia, the creation of “jobs, jobs, jobs” is a top priority as the country struggles to rebuild economically, a senior United Nations official has said, urging rapid debt relief, international ... More >>
Facing grim situation in Palestinian territories
Thursday, 1 June 2006, 7:54 pm | United Nations
With the humanitarian situation in the occupied Palestinian territory looking extremely bleak and predicted to worsen in the coming months, the United Nations and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have been compelled to revise their appeal for aid to Palestinians ... More >>
Indonesia earthquake: UN work to help survivors
Thursday, 1 June 2006, 7:53 pm | United Nations
Five days after an earthquake rocked Indonesia’s Yogyakarta region, United Nations agencies and their partners from non-governmental organizations (NGOs) continue to support the Government’s efforts to help tens of thousands of survivors who are in ... More >>
UN teams up with basketball stars to fight AIDS
Thursday, 1 June 2006, 7:51 pm | United Nations
United Nations agencies today teamed up with the premier basketball league in the United States to launch a global campaign aimed at mitigating the impact of HIV/AIDS on children and halting the spread of the virus through public service announcements ... More >>
Timor-Leste: UN Steps Up Aid
Thursday, 1 June 2006, 2:56 pm | United Nations
With violence decreasing markedly in Timor-Leste over the past 24 hours although youth gangs are still on the streets, United Nations agencies today stepped up aid for 100,000 people uprooted by weeks of turmoil aggravated by the dismissal of a ... More >>
Investigation Clears Former UN Oversight Chief
Thursday, 1 June 2006, 2:16 pm | United Nations
An outside investigation has found no evidence supporting “regrettable anonymous allegations” of improper payment or improper sexual behaviour against Dileep Nair, the formed head of the United Nations internal watchdog agency, a UN spokesman said ... More >>
Milosevic Died of Natural Causes: Inquiry
Thursday, 1 June 2006, 2:15 pm | United Nations
Slobodan Milosevic, the late President of Yugoslavia and accused architect of genocide in the Balkans, was not the victim of murder at the time of his death from a heart attack in March, the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the Former ... More >>
UN Peacekeeper In DR Of Congo Killed
Thursday, 1 June 2006, 1:39 pm | United Nations
The United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ( MONUC ) is searching for seven of their colleagues who disappeared during a confrontation between armed militias and UN-backed soldiers from the national army, which also ... More >>
Envoy Urges Global Efforts to Fight Tuberculoses
Thursday, 1 June 2006, 10:47 am | United Nations
A United Nations special envoy today urged international donors and civil society to mobilize resources to stop tuberculosis (TB), a disease that, while curable, continues to kill at least 5,000 people every day. More >>
Myanmar: Annan to fight on for Aung San Suu Kyi
Wednesday, 31 May 2006, 8:17 pm | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today vowed to continue working for the release of Myanmar democracy leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, whose house arrest the authorities have extended. More >>
Fight against AIDS: Important but uneven progress
Wednesday, 31 May 2006, 8:14 pm | United Nations
In the most comprehensive report so far on the world’s progress in combating the HIV/AIDS epidemic, the main United Nations agency combating the disease says most countries have built a strong foundation on which to mount an effective response ... More >>
Timor-Leste: UN official ‘hits ground running'
Wednesday, 31 May 2006, 8:12 pm | United Nations
With a senior United Nations official on the ground in Timor-Leste today seeking to defuse the violence that has torn through the small country in recent weeks, UN agencies have resumed food distributions to camps holding 100,000 internally displaced ... More >>
Colombia: UN extremely concerned, refugee violence
Wednesday, 31 May 2006, 8:06 pm | United Nations
Expressing new alarm at the impact of more than four decades of conflict on Colombia’s civilians, the United Nations refugee agency today voiced “extreme concern” at increasing violence over the past two weeks in the south of the Andean country, where 15 people ... More >>
