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Sri Lanka: Annan urges respect for ceasefire
Tuesday, 17 January 2006, 2:40 pm | United Nations
Responding to the deteriorating security situation in Sri Lanka, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today called on the country’s Government and the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) to support the ceasefire and resume talks. More >>
OSCE Chairman to work more with UN on terrorism
Tuesday, 17 January 2006, 2:38 pm | United Nations
OSCE Chairman pledges to work more closely with UN on terrorism and other key issues More >>
Inauguration of Sirleaf as Liberia’s new president
Tuesday, 17 January 2006, 2:36 pm | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today hailed the inauguration of Liberia’s new president, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the first woman elected to lead an African nation. More >>
UN Sudan should adhere to women’s treaty
Tuesday, 17 January 2006, 2:34 pm | United Nations
Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s Special Adviser on Gender Issues and Advancement of Women today urged rights experts meeting in New York to encourage Sudan’s adherence to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. More >>
Annan condemns violent Afghanistan attacks
Tuesday, 17 January 2006, 2:30 pm | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today condemned the recent series of violent attacks in Afghanistan which took the lives of an official of a Canadian reconstruction team and an unconfirmed number of other civilian and military personnel. More >>
Haiti: slander campaign against UN mission
Monday, 16 January 2006, 3:01 pm | United Nations
Secretary-General Kofi Annan has registered his opposition to a campaign of defamation against the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) as well as his senior envoy to the country. More >>
UN peacekeeping reaps 'return on investment'
Monday, 16 January 2006, 2:59 pm | United Nations
United Nations peacekeeping operations are reaping a “return on their investment” as countries which in the past hosted them are now in turn contributing police to other missions, officials with the world body said today. More >>
Liberia: UN hails youth participants in clean-up
Monday, 16 January 2006, 2:58 pm | United Nations
The senior United Nations envoy for Liberia today praised thousands of the country's youth who have participated in a campaign to clean up Monrovia ahead of Monday's historic inauguration of President-elect Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf. More >>
Sudan: Security Council must enforce sanctions
Monday, 16 January 2006, 2:53 pm | United Nations
The United Nations Security Council must enforce its sanctions against belligerents and human rights violators in Sudan or lose credibility, the head of the UN Mission in the country (UNMIS) said today. More >>
Côte d’Ivoire: UN mission should expand and extend
Monday, 16 January 2006, 2:50 pm | United Nations
UN mission in Côte d’Ivoire should be expanded and extended for one year, Annan says More >>
Annan urges Iranian negotiator to avoid escalation
Friday, 13 January 2006, 3:21 pm | United Nations
12 January 2006 – Responding to Iran’s decision to end its suspension of uranium enrichment activities, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today urged Tehran’s key nuclear official to find a negotiated settlement and later briefed key countries ... More >>
Panel to redesign UN’s internal justice system
Friday, 13 January 2006, 3:17 pm | United Nations
12 January 2006 – As part of his campaign of United Nations reform, Secretary-General Kofi Annan has appointed a panel of independent experts to explore redesigning its system of internal justice, a UN spokesman announced today. More >>
Funding running out for forces in Sudan’s Darfur
Friday, 13 January 2006, 3:15 pm | United Nations
UN weighs options for Sudan’s Darfur region as funds for African Union force run low More >>
Condemning recent violence, rule of law in Iraq
Friday, 13 January 2006, 3:14 pm | United Nations
12 January 2006 – Secretary-General Kofi Annan's senior envoy to Iraq today decried recent bloodshed in the country and called on its people to demand that their leaders focus on protecting civilians and fostering a lawful society. More >>
Death of UN Force Commander in Haiti ruled suicide
Friday, 13 January 2006, 3:11 pm | United Nations
12 January 2006 – Suicide is the official cause of the death over the weekend of Lt. Gen. Urano Teixeira Da Matta Bacellar, then the Force Commander for United Nations peacekeepers in Haiti, the UN Mission in the country (MINUSTAH) said today. More >>
East Africa: Loss of ecosystems worsens drought
Friday, 13 January 2006, 3:10 pm | United Nations
12 January 2006 – The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) warned today that the drought devastating East Africa is deepening because of global climate change as well as the ongoing destruction of forests, grasslands, wetlands and other critical ecosystems. More >>
Lessons from China’s chemical plant blast
Friday, 13 January 2006, 3:07 pm | United Nations
12 January 2006 – The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) said today that lessons learned from dealing with November’s explosion at a petrochemical plant in northeastern China, which caused major river pollution, should influence government ... More >>
UN says aid distribution must not be media-driven
Friday, 13 January 2006, 2:59 pm | United Nations
12 January 2006 – Speaking at a conference in Geneva following up on the $4.5 billion United Nations Humanitarian Appeal for 2006, the head of the world body’s refugee agency today said aid must be channelled based on the real situation of the people ... More >>
UN condemns murder of journalist in northern India
Friday, 13 January 2006, 2:57 pm | United Nations
12 January 2006 – The head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), today condemned the murder of an Indian reporter in the north of the country but said he was confident New Delhi would not allow the killing to ... More >>
Annan: decisive measures to prevent genocide
Friday, 13 January 2006, 2:55 pm | United Nations
12 January 2006 – Marking the 55th anniversary of the international Convention against Genocide, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today called on the international community to strengthen its ability to prevent that horror and to take decisive measures ... More >>
