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Annan Urges Developing Nations To Use Creativity
Tuesday, 20 December 2005, 9:29 am | United Nations
Marking United Nations Day for South-South Cooperation, Secretary-General Kofi Annan today called on developing countries to use every resource at their disposal and to encourage their global diasporas to offer their knowledge and skills to the development ... More >>
UN Asks Germany To Prosecute Uzbek Minister
Tuesday, 20 December 2005, 9:28 am | United Nations
A United Nations expert on torture has called on the German authorities to prosecute Uzbekistan’s Minister of Internal Affairs, Zokirjon Almatov, who is currently in Germany for treatment, after several survivors of torture filed a case against him ... More >>
Liberia: Officials Urged To Rise Above Politics
Tuesday, 20 December 2005, 9:26 am | United Nations
The top United Nations envoy in Liberia today called on the newly elected officials to fulfil their obligations to bring peace and democracy to the war-torn West African country, which the world body has been helping to nurse back to health since a 2003 ... More >>
Haiti: 3 UN Peacekeepers Injured In Ambush
Monday, 19 December 2005, 3:27 pm | United Nations
Three soldiers serving with the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) were injured in an attack on Friday, the UN reported today. More >>
UN Resolution On Nth Korean Human Rights Abuses
Monday, 19 December 2005, 3:26 pm | United Nations
The United Nations General Assembly adopted for the first time today a resolution on human rights violations in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) reflecting its serious concern over reports of torture, public executions, arbitrary detention, ... More >>
Special Court On Darfur Crimes Not Satisfactory
Monday, 19 December 2005, 3:25 pm | United Nations
A United Nations genocide expert today voiced disappointment in the efforts of Sudan’s Government to address the crimes committed in the country’s western Darfur region, where conflict has been marked by massive displacement, rights abuses and widespread ... More >>
UN Helped 500,000 Afghans Return From Pakistan
Monday, 19 December 2005, 3:24 pm | United Nations
With the year’s last convoys leaving Pakistan for Afghanistan before winter sets in, over 445,000 Afghans will have returned home from in 2005 under the voluntary repatriation programme of the United Nations refugee agency. More >>
$85m Needed To Tackle Landmine Scourge In Sudan
Monday, 19 December 2005, 3:22 pm | United Nations
Seeking to curb the scourge of landmines and other explosive remnants of war that kill or injure between 15,000 and 20,000 people annually worldwide, the United Nations is appealing for more than $85 million to tackle the crisis in three of the most ... More >>
Iraq: UN Envoy Commends Inclusive Elections
Monday, 19 December 2005, 3:20 pm | United Nations
The senior United Nations envoy in Iraq today commended the people of the war-torn country Iraq for their active nationwide participation in yesterday’s elections and congratulated the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq (IECI) for the conduct ... More >>
UN Agency Ends Work In West Timor
Monday, 19 December 2005, 3:19 pm | United Nations
After helping the voluntary repatriation of 225,000 people who fled to West Timor to escape the violence after the 1999 referendum on independence for East Timor, the United Nations refugee agency is scheduled to finish six-years of humanitarian ... More >>
Council Demands Syrian Cooperation Hariri Probe
Friday, 16 December 2005, 3:20 pm | United Nations
Voicing “extreme concern” that Syria has not yet provided full and unconditional cooperation to the United Nations inquiry into the murder of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, the Security Council today unanimously demanded that the Syrian ... More >>
War Crime Tribunals Demand Cooperation for Arrests
Friday, 16 December 2005, 1:52 pm | United Nations
The apparent momentum earlier this year to bring two of the most notorious fugitives from the Balkan wars of the 1990s before the United Nations war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia has ebbed, and there is no serious attempt now to seize them, ... More >>
Vast UN-Backed Asian Highway Moves Ahead
Friday, 16 December 2005, 11:42 am | United Nations
Major upgrading projects and funding needs were identified today for the United Nations-backed 140,000-kilometre Asian Highway Network that will link the vast region from St. Petersburg to Singapore and Seoul to Istanbul, facilitating trade and tourism and opening up ... More >>
UN Peacekeepers Depart Sierra Leone to High Praise
Friday, 16 December 2005, 11:09 am | United Nations
As 290 of the remaining peacekeepers of the United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL) departed today, two weeks short of the end of their mandate to cement the peace after a brutal civil war, Secretary-General Kofi Annan said he viewed mission’s ... More >>
GHW Bush appointed as Envoy for Quake Recovery
Friday, 16 December 2005, 10:29 am | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today appointed former United States President George Herbert Walker Bush as his Special Envoy for the South Asian Earthquake Disaster, representing the UN system in the national and international response to ... More >>
Support for Sudan Humanitarian Operations Urged
Friday, 16 December 2005, 12:41 am | United Nations
The January peace agreement in Southern Sudan has opened up the region to humanitarian aid after 21 years of war, but with an almost total lack of infrastructure, little Government ability to deliver services and other problems, it was critical for the ... More >>
Israeli, Palestinian Lawmakers Brought Together
Thursday, 15 December 2005, 4:57 pm | United Nations
Bridging the divide on both sides of the Middle East conflict, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has brought together senior officials from Israel and the Palestinian Authority to discuss cooperation on combating drug trafficking ... More >>
Annan Urges Iraqis To Vote Peacefully
Thursday, 15 December 2005, 3:38 pm | United Nations
On the eve of Iraq’s elections, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today urged the country’s people to go to the polls in a peaceful manner and pledged the world body’s support. More >>
UN Launches Tool To Recover Stolen Assets
Thursday, 15 December 2005, 3:37 pm | United Nations
The United Nations Convention against Corruption, a major obstacle to development in poor countries, came into force today, providing the first legally binding global instrument for the return of assets illicitly acquired by dishonest officials, as ... More >>
Annan Urges Middle East Funds To Anti-Aids Fight
Thursday, 15 December 2005, 3:36 pm | United Nations
Annan Urges Countries In Middle East, North Africa To Provide Funds To Anti-Aids Fight More >>
