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Officials in Eritrea, Attempting to Diffuse Crisis
Tuesday, 13 December 2005, 5:18 pm | United Nations
The top United Nations officials travelling to the Horn of Africa at the urgent request of Secretary-General Kofi Annan to diffuse the crisis caused when Eritrea requested the pullout of peacekeeping personnel of certain nationalities have arrived in the ... More >>
Slow Progress in Cases of 1990s Missing Kuwaitis
Tuesday, 13 December 2005, 5:17 pm | United Nations
UN Report Sees Slow Progress in Resolving Cases of Kuwaitis Missing as a Result of Iraq’s 1990 Invasion More >>
Annan Condemns New Assassination In Lebanon
Tuesday, 13 December 2005, 3:15 pm | United Nations
The Security Council and Secretary-General Kofi Annan today condemned the murder of Gibran Tueni, a politician and journalist in Lebanon, as Council members received the report of Detlev Mehlis, head of the United Nations International Independent ... More >>
Asian States Praised For Backing Suu Kyi Release
Tuesday, 13 December 2005, 3:08 pm | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today commended the Association of Southeast Asia Nations (ASEAN) for its call on Myanmar to “expedite” both its political reform efforts and its release of political detainees, including democracy activist Daw ... More >>
Call for Liberia Party Leader to Calm Supporters
Tuesday, 13 December 2005, 10:36 am | United Nations
The head of the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) today called on the losing presidential candidate to calm his supporters following two incidents yesterday in the capital, Monrovia, in which one Liberian police officer was seriously wounded ... More >>
Former Croatian General Pleads Not Guilty
Tuesday, 13 December 2005, 10:33 am | United Nations
Former Croatian General Ante Gotovina today pleaded not guilty to charges of murder and inhumane acts brought by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) at The Hague. More >>
Bracing for Winter Health Crisis in Quake Region
Tuesday, 13 December 2005, 10:32 am | United Nations
As the temperature drops in the mountainous regions affected by the 8 October earthquake, the head of the United Nations health agency has arrived in Pakistan, warning that the cold and the cramped living conditions is leading to an increase in the risk ... More >>
Belarus Law Changes Could Threaten Basic Freedoms
Tuesday, 13 December 2005, 10:31 am | United Nations
A United Nations human rights expert has appealed to Belarus not to adopt new provisions for its legal codes that he says could threaten basic freedoms of individuals and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and even make it difficult for him to fulfil ... More >>
Iraq: UN Envoy Hails Start Of Voting
Tuesday, 13 December 2005, 9:58 am | United Nations
Hailing the start of parliamentary elections in Iraq today, with voting being held in hospitals and detention centres and for security forces, the senior United Nations envoy pledged continued support in helping the war-torn country transform itself ... More >>
Expert Urges Iran Not To Execute Another Juvenile
Tuesday, 13 December 2005, 9:55 am | United Nations
After receiving numerous allegations that juveniles have been executed in Iran over the past year, a United Nations rights expert is calling on the country’s Government not to carry out the death penalty against Rostam Tajik, a 20-year-old Afghan national ... More >>
Nuclear Agency Chief Lays Out Vision For Peace
Tuesday, 13 December 2005, 9:54 am | United Nations
Accepting this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency Director-General Mohamed ElBaradei has laid out a three-point programme to save the world from self-destruction by ensuring that nuclear weapons have no place ... More >>
UN Envoy Stresses Need for Fair Iraq Elections
Monday, 12 December 2005, 10:30 am | United Nations
The need to hold free elections in an environment free of coercion topped the agenda of meetings today in Baghdad between the senior United Nations envoy to Iraq and representatives of various political parties. More >>
Sudan: Gravely Alarmed At Clashes In Darfur
Friday, 9 December 2005, 4:43 pm | United Nations
With the United Nations Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) reporting banditry, looting and ethnic fighting in Sudan’s western Darfur region, Secretary-General Kofi Annan today voiced grave concern about the worsening situation in the area and called on all ... More >>
UN officials sent to Ethiopia and Eritrea
Friday, 9 December 2005, 1:12 pm | United Nations
Top UN officials sent to Ethiopia and Eritrea after latter’s request to oust UN staff More >>
Zimbabwe’s humanitarian situation is worsening
Friday, 9 December 2005, 1:11 pm | United Nations
United Nations Emergency Coordinator Jan Egeland, just back from a four-day mission to Zimbabwe on behalf of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, said today that the humanitarian situation in the southern Africa is “extremely serious and it is worsening as we ... More >>
Sudan: Annan gravely alarmed at clashes in Darfur
Friday, 9 December 2005, 1:09 pm | United Nations
With the United Nations Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) reporting banditry, looting and ethnic fighting in Sudan’s western Darfur region, Secretary-General Kofi Annan today voiced grave concern about the worsening situation in the area and called on all ... More >>
Kidnappings in Iraq, Annan calls for release
Friday, 9 December 2005, 1:07 pm | United Nations
Dismayed by the recent wave of kidnappings in Iraq, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today called for the immediate, safe and unconditional release of all those abducted and strongly reiterated his appeal to all sides to respect at all ... More >>
Annan urges help for Comoros as it transitions
Friday, 9 December 2005, 1:04 pm | United Nations
As the Comoros undergoes the transition to democracy and enters a critical stage in its political development, the international community should generously support the archipelago, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan said in a message to ... More >>
UN agencies use video games to raise awareness
Friday, 9 December 2005, 1:03 pm | United Nations
From the crippling toll of hunger to the desperate plight of refugees, United Nations relief agencies are turning to video games as a vivid tool with realistic simulation to raise awareness of the world’s ills among the more affluent nations. More >>
New Red Cross emblem allows Israel’s participation
Friday, 9 December 2005, 1:00 pm | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today welcomed the adoption of a nondenominational humanitarian emblem, the Red Crystal, in addition to the Red Cross and Red Crescent, voicing hope that it will open the way for Israel’s Magen David Adom (Red Shield ... More >>
