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DR Congo: Annan welcomes prep for European support
Monday, 27 March 2006, 7:39 pm | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today welcomed the decision of the European Union to start planning and preparation for possible support to the United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC). More >>
UN envoy backs Lebanon's approach to Palestinian m
Monday, 27 March 2006, 7:37 pm | United Nations
A senior United Nations Lebanon holding talks in Beirut today with the country's officials hailed their integrated approach to the presence of Palestinian militias. More >>
Equatorial Guinea and Gabon border dispute
Saturday, 25 March 2006, 4:05 pm | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today called for speedy resolution of a maritime border dispute between Equatorial Guinea and Gabon, stressing the need to have a “good result by the end of the year,” and pledging his support for the ... More >>
2 million Ethiopians in need: drought-stricken
Saturday, 25 March 2006, 4:01 pm | United Nations
Nearly two million people in Ethiopia’s drought-stricken southern region urgently require food assistance, livestock support, access to safe drinking water and sanitation, and health interventions, the United Nations said today, highlighting a worsening ... More >>
Spain: Basque group should honour ceasefire
Saturday, 25 March 2006, 3:56 pm | United Nations
Welcoming a decision by the Basque organization ETA to declare a permanent ceasefire, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan called on Thursday for the honouring of this commitment so as to put an end to years of bloody violence in Spain. More >>
UN gravely concerned over fighting, Guinea-Bissau
Saturday, 25 March 2006, 3:54 pm | United Nations
The United Nation’s top humanitarian official, expressing “grave concern” for 5,500 civilians who have fled recent clashes in northern Guinea-Bissau between Senegalese rebels and the Guinean army, today called upon the parties to cease their hostilities. More >>
Belarus: UN deplores rights abuses
Saturday, 25 March 2006, 3:52 pm | United Nations
In his third condemnation in a week over presidential elections in Belarus, decried by monitors as neither free nor fair, a United Nations expert today deplored the escalation of Government abuses against the independent press, opposition candidates ... More >>
Iraq: UN concerned for Palestinians, death threats
Saturday, 25 March 2006, 3:49 pm | United Nations
The United Nations refugee agency today voiced increasing concern over the situation of tens of thousands of Palestinians in Baghdad amid reports that more than 100 families had received written death threats and that many are in a state of shock and panic. More >>
UN calls for opening of crossing, Israel to Gaza
Saturday, 25 March 2006, 3:46 pm | United Nations
With the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip deteriorating and food and other supplies running short due to Israeli closures, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) warned today that it was crucial for this week’s 48-hour opening of the Karni crossing ... More >>
UN expert welcomes release of Iranian journalist
Saturday, 25 March 2006, 3:43 pm | United Nations
A United Nations-mandated independent expert on freedom of expression today “warmly” welcomed the release of Iranian journalist Akbar Ganji, who had served nearly all of a six-year sentence for propaganda and other acts against the State. More >>
Dialogue between Lebanon and Syria is ‘crucial’
Saturday, 25 March 2006, 3:41 pm | United Nations
Stressing the need for immediate dialogue between Lebanon and Syria, a senior United Nations envoy has called for their common border to be demarcated and embassies to be set up “as soon as possible.” More >>
Extending Sudan mission groundwork UN Darfur force
Saturday, 25 March 2006, 3:39 pm | United Nations
The Security Council today decided to extend the mandate of the United Nations peacekeeping mission focussed on southern Sudan (UNMIS) until 24 September 2006, requesting that Secretary-General Kofi Annan also expedite the planning for a transformation of the ... More >>
HIV/AIDS in Asia-Pacific: Focus on children
Thursday, 23 March 2006, 9:52 pm | United Nations
With HIV and AIDS spreading at a faster rate in East Asia than almost anywhere else in the world, children must be at the centre of a dramatically scaled up response, a United Nations official told the opening session of the first high level regional ... More >>
Haitian children face greatest challenges to life
Thursday, 23 March 2006, 9:48 pm | United Nations
The plight of Haiti’s 3.8 million children 22 March 2006 – More children are likely to die during early childhood in Haiti than in any other country in the Western Hemisphere, with one in eight likely to succumb before the age of five, according to a United ... More >>
World Water Day: Grim statistics & message of hope
Thursday, 23 March 2006, 9:45 pm | United Nations
The United Nations marked World Water Day today with calls for more equitable distribution and efficient use of a scarce resource; a grim reminder that 6,000 people, mostly children, die every day from dirty water; and a message of hope for one of the planet’s ... More >>
Calls for Iraq Govt to Assert Control
Thursday, 23 March 2006, 3:09 pm | United Nations
The United Nations today called on Iraq’s Government to urgently assert control over the security forces and all armed groups in the war-torn country, saying February’s attack on a shrine in Samarra had led to a worsening situation, resulting in hundreds ... More >>
Sudan: Urgent action needed to counter brutality
Wednesday, 22 March 2006, 9:34 pm | United Nations
Saying that killings, rapes and other abuse of human rights in Darfur continue to threaten the peace in Sudan as a whole, the United Nation’s top envoy to that country today called for a swift peace agreement and a peacekeeping force large enough to ... More >>
DR of Congo: Annan honours fallen peacekeepers
Wednesday, 22 March 2006, 9:31 pm | United Nations
Secretary-General Kofi Annan today arrived in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where the United Nations is fielding one of its largest peacekeeping forces, with nearly 17,000 uniformed personnel, and helping to organize elections in the ... More >>
Annan calls for Liberia operation to be extended
Wednesday, 22 March 2006, 9:30 pm | United Nations
Describing the security situation in Liberia as still “fragile,” United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today called for the UN mission in the country, which is recovering from a prolonged civil war, to be extended until March 2007 and for more police officers ... More >>
UN ‘very concerned’ for Palestinians on border
Wednesday, 22 March 2006, 9:28 pm | United Nations
The United Nations refugee agency today voiced serious concern over the safety of a group of almost 100 Palestinians, including 42 children, who over the weekend moved to the Iraqi-Jordanian border from Baghdad, warning that this was exposing them to ... More >>
