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Belgian new head UN probe into Hariri murder
Thursday, 12 January 2006, 2:51 pm | United Nations
11 January 2006 – Secretary-General Kofi Annan today named a former Belgian prosecutor as the new head of the United Nations investigation into last year’s assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. More >>
Iran: UN concern, removal of seals on uranium site
Thursday, 12 January 2006, 2:49 pm | United Nations
11 January 2006 – Secretary-General Kofi Annan and the head of the United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) today voiced concern about Iran’s removal of seals that block the use of equipment and material related to uranium enrichment, ... More >>
Turkey: UN warns bird flu virus may become endemic
Thursday, 12 January 2006, 2:45 pm | United Nations
11 January 2006 – Bird flu could become endemic in Turkey and poses a serious risk to neighbouring countries, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warned today. More >>
UNAIDS: Concern over arrests of homosexuals, India
Thursday, 12 January 2006, 2:42 pm | United Nations
11 January 2006 – The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) has expressed concern that the recent arrests of men who have sex with men in Lucknow, India, criminalizes the people most at risk of HIV infection possibly increases stigma and discrimination ... More >>
Border tension between Ethiopia and Eritrea eases
Thursday, 12 January 2006, 2:39 pm | United Nations
11 January 2006 – Tension on the disputed border between Ethiopia and Eritrea has eased, the United Nations said today, although restrictions on the movement of UN personnel and the Eritrean ban on UN helicopters remains. More >>
Indian general named for UN peacekeeping mission
Thursday, 12 January 2006, 2:37 pm | United Nations
11 January 2006 – United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has appointed Lieutenant General Jasbir Singh Lidder of India the new force commander of the peacekeeping UN Mission in Sudan (UNMIS). More >>
UN resumes talks on Human Rights Council
Thursday, 12 January 2006, 2:34 pm | United Nations
11 January 2006 – The United Nations General Assembly today resumed closed-door talks on setting up the new UN Human Rights Council to replace the Commission on Human Rights, as called for by leaders meeting at the 2005 World Summit last September. More >>
Security in Central African Republic ‘precarious'
Wednesday, 11 January 2006, 3:19 pm | United Nations
9 January 2006 – The security situation in the Central African Republic, which is rebuilding after a civil war, remains “precarious” and international support for the country is crucial to consolidating stability, United Nations Secretary-General ... More >>
UN reviews fight against illegal gun trafficking
Wednesday, 11 January 2006, 3:16 pm | United Nations
9 January 2006 – Since its adoption in 2001, an international action plan to counter illegal gun trafficking had caused unprecedented government activity in the fight against the scourge, but the weapons continued to cause human misery, destabilize ... More >>
UN concerned: Uzbek refugees detained, Kyrgyzstan
Wednesday, 11 January 2006, 3:14 pm | United Nations
9 January 2006 – Officials with the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) are calling on the Kyrgyz Government to refrain from any action aimed at forcibly returning four Uzbek refugees now in detention to their home country. More >>
Bird flu in Turkey following Asia's pattern
Wednesday, 11 January 2006, 3:12 pm | United Nations
Bird flu in Turkey following Asia's pattern of poultry-to-human transmission, UN expert says More >>
UN begins interviewing Sudanese detainees in Cairo
Monday, 9 January 2006, 11:58 am | United Nations
Staff of the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) have begun interviewing more than 600 Sudanese being held in three detention centres on the outskirts of Cairo following last week's fatal demonstrations. More >>
Starvation looms over refugees in Zambia; Aid cuts
Monday, 9 January 2006, 11:55 am | United Nations
Faced with severe shortages of food and funding, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) this week began slashing by half its food rations to refugees in Zambia so it can stretch existing provisions over the next two months. More >>
Kosovo: Roma to leave lead-tainted camps
Monday, 9 January 2006, 11:52 am | United Nations
A newly-refurbished camp will open on Monday for internally displaced Roma populations in Kosovo that are enduring unhealthy lead levels in their present dwellings, the United Nations Mission in that province (UNMIK) announced today. More >>
Border tension between Ethiopia, Eritrea continues
Monday, 9 January 2006, 11:43 am | United Nations
The United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) has reported that the military situation in the Temporary Security Zone (TSZ) separating the two countries continues to be “tense and potentially volatile,” about a month after Eritrea demanded ... More >>
UN's force commander in Haiti found dead
Monday, 9 January 2006, 11:37 am | United Nations
As investigators began probing the death of the senior military official leading the United Nations peacekeeping operation in Haiti, a 58-year old Brazilian general who was found dead today in Port au Prince, UN officials praised his legacy of peace. More >>
UN: Statement On Israeli PM Ariel Sharon
Friday, 6 January 2006, 9:04 am | United Nations
The Secretary-General is deeply concerned about the health of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. He is following developments closely and very much hopes that the Prime Minister will make a speedy recovery. His thoughts are with Mr. Sharon and his family, ... More >>
Israel Pays UN $25m In AID for Gaza Strip
Friday, 23 December 2005, 1:52 pm | United Nations
With a $25 million grant to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the Israeli government made its first donation to a UN agency that will give the Palestinian territories an economic boost following Israel’s withdrawal from the occupied Gaza ... More >>
Annan Agrees To Extend Oil-For-Food Committee
Friday, 23 December 2005, 1:50 pm | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has written to Paul Volcker, chair of the Independent Inquiry Committee (IIC) into the scandal-ridden Iraq Oil-for-Food Programme, to agree to Mr. Volcker’s request to extend the Commission’s follow-up ... More >>
Niger: Malnutrition Remains Unacceptably High
Friday, 23 December 2005, 11:06 am | United Nations
Images of the gaunt eyes and scrawny bodies of Niger's children shocked the world into action earlier this year, bringing aid that saved 90 per cent of the more than 300,000 children treated, but the impoverished country’s youngsters still face high ... More >>
