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Increasing Violations of Somali Arms Embargo
Friday, 11 November 2005, 10:22 am | United Nations
Stressing that any resort to military force to solve the current differences between Somalia's transitional federal institutions is unacceptable, the United Nations Security Council today strongly condemned the increased inflow of weapons into the Horn of ... More >>
Diarrhoea Outbreaks Hit Pakistan Quake Camps
Friday, 11 November 2005, 10:19 am | United Nations
Serious outbreaks of acute diarrhoea in areas devastated by Pakistan's earthquake are highlighting the need for scaled up efforts to provide safe water and sanitation in makeshift camps and for more funding for the Government, the United Nations Office ... More >>
Annan Meets With Leaders of Egypt And Saudi Arabia
Friday, 11 November 2005, 10:17 am | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan met today with the leaders of Egypt and Saudi Arabia in their respective countries as part of a two-week trip that began in France and will also take him to Tunisia and Pakistan. More >>
Liberia: UN Official Advises to File Complaints
Friday, 11 November 2005, 10:10 am | United Nations
With Liberia remaining calm after the presidential run-off elections and United Nations peacekeeping troops on full alert across the country, the top UN official there today advised a disappointed candidate to file complaints officially with the National ... More >>
UNEP: Plans to Clean Up Toxic Sites in Iraq
Friday, 11 November 2005, 10:02 am | United Nations
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) today announced plans to clean up an industrial site in Iraq believed to hold several tonnes of an acutely toxic compound that is lethal at a dose of less than one gram, after being bombed, looted and randomly ... More >>
Annan to Visit Jordan Tomorrow Following Attacks
Friday, 11 November 2005, 9:54 am | United Nations
Secretary-General Kofi Annan will go to Amman, Jordan, tomorrow to confer with King Abdullah II and UN staff following the terrorist suicide bombings on three hotels there that killed scores of people and injured more than 100 others. More >>
DPR Korea Urged to Take a Human Rights Measures
Friday, 11 November 2005, 9:31 am | United Nations
In the effort to improve the human rights situation in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), a rights expert today urged Pyongyang to invite him and other United Nations-mandated personnel to visit the country. More >>
UN Has Reformed , Will Continue: Frechette
Friday, 11 November 2005, 12:55 am | United Nations
The United Nations has demonstrated its flexibility in adapting to new challenges and will continue reforming with the support of its Member States, Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette said in Canada on Wednesday evening. More >>
Mission Hears Armed Men Attacked Darfur Villages
Friday, 11 November 2005, 12:53 am | United Nations
The United Nations Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) today said it had received an unconfirmed report that some 1,500 armed men attacked and burned six villages in southern Darfur earlier this week, killing a dozen and a half people. More >>
Annan Condemns Terrorist Blasts In Jordan
Thursday, 10 November 2005, 5:02 pm | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, who is currently travelling in the Middle East, today strongly condemned the bombings in Amman, Jordan, and reiterated his longstanding call for the adoption of a comprehensive international treaty to ... More >>
Council Transfers Funds To Nuclear Watchdog Agency
Thursday, 10 November 2005, 2:49 pm | United Nations
Responding to a request from the Baghdad Government, the Security Council today transferred more than $2 million of residual Oil-for-Food funds More >>
Wolfensohn To Continue As Quartet Gaza Envoy – UN
Thursday, 10 November 2005, 2:41 pm | United Nations
The diplomatic Quartet promoting the Middle East peace process – made up of the United Nations, United States, Russian Federation and European Union – has requested that its special envoy for Israeli disengagement from Gaza, James Wolfensohn, continue ... More >>
Polio And De-Worming Campaigns In Liberia
Thursday, 10 November 2005, 2:39 pm | United Nations
Liberia’s third round of National Immunization Days will be kicked off tomorrow, aiming to provide 1.2 million children under five years of age with the oral polio vaccine and de-worming medicine, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reported ... More >>
UNEP Reports Plans For ‘Green’ Winter Olympics '06
Thursday, 10 November 2005, 2:37 pm | United Nations
As part of its efforts to encourage eco-friendly sporting events, the United Nations Environment Programme ( UNEP ) today reported a raft of measures to cut greenhouse emissions and water usage at next year’s winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, as well ... More >>
States Call For End To Female Genital Mutilation
Thursday, 10 November 2005, 2:31 pm | United Nations
A United Nations-backed conference of ministers from nearly 50 Islamic countries and representatives of more than 20 international, Arab and Islamic organizations has called for an end to harmful traditional practices including child marriage, ... More >>
Pakistan: UN & Partners Press On Relief Efforts
Thursday, 10 November 2005, 2:28 pm | United Nations
Stepping up relief to the victims of Pakistan's devastating earthquake, the United Nations and the inter-governmental International Organization for Migration (IOM) now have 300 staff in the disaster area, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian ... More >>
Annan Condemns Attacks On Iraqi Tribunal Lawyers
Thursday, 10 November 2005, 2:27 pm | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today condemned what he called "brutal" attacks, two of which were fatal, on three attorneys defending officials of the regime of Saddam Hussein in a trial that began on 19 October 2005. More >>
Amid Eritrean-Ethiopian Tension, UN Continues
Thursday, 10 November 2005, 2:26 pm | United Nations
Visiting Ethiopia and Eritrea amid concerns that deteriorating relations could lead to fresh fighting between the two countries, which fought a bitter border war from 1998 to 2000, a United Nations Security Council envoy today received a briefing from ... More >>
Killed Official Embodies All UN Stands For – Annan
Thursday, 10 November 2005, 2:25 pm | United Nations
Secretary-General Kofi Annan today eulogized an Egyptian United Nations official killed in the 19 August, 2003, terrorist attack on UN headquarters in Baghdad as an exemplar of all that the international organization is striving to achieve in ... More >>
Bird Flu: Conference Draws Up Six-Point Plan
Thursday, 10 November 2005, 11:20 am | United Nations
Winding up a three-day United Nations-sponsored conference aimed at pre-empting a deadly human pandemic of bird flu, more than 600 delegates from over 100 countries today outlined a six-point global action plan, ranging from curbing the virus in ... More >>
