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Envoy Deplores Israeli Air Violations of Lebanon
Thursday, 10 November 2005, 10:42 am | United Nations
Secretary General Kofi Annan's Personal Representative for Southern Lebanon today deplored Israel's air violations of the line of withdrawal, known as the Blue Line, and urged that they be halted immediately. More >>
Official Promotes Refugee Protection in Brazil
Thursday, 10 November 2005, 10:34 am | United Nations
The United Nations' top refugee official met with Brazilian Government leaders today to seek support for a new plan to protect and assist those who have been forced to flee their homes. More >>
UN Envoy to Liberia Says Run-Off Election Peaceful
Thursday, 10 November 2005, 10:31 am | United Nations
The run-off election in Liberia between leading presidential contenders Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf and George Oppong Weah was conducted in a peaceful and transparent manner, the senior United Nations envoy to the West African country said today. More >>
Iraq: UN Security Council Extends Mandate
Wednesday, 9 November 2005, 4:51 pm | United Nations
The United Nations Security Council decided unanimously today to extend the mandate of the United States-led multinational force in Iraq by one year, until the end of 2006, unless the Iraqi Government requests it leave earlier. More >>
International Court Is A Deterrent To Criminals
Wednesday, 9 November 2005, 3:52 pm | United Nations
Celebrating the 100th ratification of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC), United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette said today in New York that without justice there can be neither respect for human rights nor ... More >>
Syria's Assad Assures Annan He Will Co-operate
Wednesday, 9 November 2005, 11:34 am | United Nations
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has assured Secretary-General Kofi Annan that he will cooperate with the United Nations-sponsored independent probe into the terrorist assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, following an interim ... More >>
UN Assembly Issue Call For USA To End Cuba Embargo
Wednesday, 9 November 2005, 11:31 am | United Nations
UN NYC - For the 14th year in a row, the United Nations General Assembly today overwhelmingly approved a resolution calling for an end to the 41-year-old commercial, economic and financial embargo by the United States against Cuba and objecting to laws and ... More >>
Syria Assures UN It Will Aid Hariri Murder Probe
Wednesday, 9 November 2005, 11:26 am | United Nations
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has assured Secretary-General Kofi Annan that he will cooperate with the United Nations-sponsored independent probe into the terrorist assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, following an interim ... More >>
Morocco Grants UN Refugee Agency Access
Wednesday, 9 November 2005, 11:18 am | United Nations
The United Nations refugee agency has been given access to more than 40 sub-Saharans in Morocco with agency documentation and hopes to interview others later this week, an agency spokesperson said today. More >>
Islamic States Plan To Help 1/4 Worlds Children
Wednesday, 9 November 2005, 10:39 am | United Nations
With some 4.3 million children under five dying each year from preventable disease and malnutrition in Islamic countries, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is co-organizing a three-day meeting in Rabat, Morocco, intended to make a lasting ... More >>
UN Nuclear Terror Trafficking Prevention Plan
Wednesday, 9 November 2005, 10:37 am | United Nations
In a bid to thwart the smuggling of nuclear materials and the threat of terrorists’ acquiring weapons of mass destruction, the head of the United Nations atomic watchdog agency has laid out a series of “yardsticks”, including multilateral management of ... More >>
Somalia Arms Embargo Group Reappointed
Wednesday, 9 November 2005, 10:34 am | United Nations
With Somali armed groups reported to be still receiving weapons despite a 1992 embargo, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has re-appointed four members of the sanctions Monitoring Group called for by the UN Security Council. More >>
UN Expert Fighting Sex Trafficking in Albania
Wednesday, 9 November 2005, 10:32 am | United Nations
The new Government of Albania has improved the legal framework necessary to reduce the flow of trafficked children, but it must develop a national child protection system aimed at combating the poverty that drives exploitation, a United Nations ... More >>
Annan Meets with French President
Tuesday, 8 November 2005, 3:21 pm | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan met today in with French President Jacques Chirac in Paris, where he arrived yesterday at the start of two-week trip that will also take him to Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia and Pakistan. More >>
Vacancies Filled On Int'l Court Of Justice
Tuesday, 8 November 2005, 2:07 pm | United Nations
Four prominent jurists were elected today – with one re-elected – to serve on the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the United Nations' principal judicial organ for settling disputes between countries, for a term of nine years beginning on 6 ... More >>
Envoy Says Eritrean-Ethiopia Situation Delicate
Tuesday, 8 November 2005, 11:38 am | United Nations
At the start of a two-day tour of Eritrea and Ethiopia to dispel rising tensions, the Chairman of the United Nations Security Council Working Group on Peacekeeping Operations said today that the resolution of the border dispute between the formerly ... More >>
UN Condemns Assassination Attempt on Somali PM
Tuesday, 8 November 2005, 10:32 am | United Nations
An assassination attempt made on the life of Somali Prime Minister Ali Mohammed Gedi, which occurred as he rode in a convoy in Mogadishu yesterday, was deplored today by the United Nations political office for the strife-torn country on the Horn of ... More >>
Annan's Five-Nation Tour Will Not Include Iran
Monday, 7 November 2005, 10:07 am | United Nations
Secretary-General Kofi Annan heads out for a five-nation tour this weekend to the Middle East, North Africa and earthquake-ravaged Pakistan, but the trip will not include a previously scheduled visit to Iran, his spokesman said today. More >>
DR Congo: UN Helps Release of Election Officials
Friday, 4 November 2005, 3:49 pm | United Nations
United Nations peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have helped free four election officials who were abducted in the eastern North Kivu province almost two weeks ago, a spokesman for the world body said today. More >>
Envoy to Visit Ethiopia, Eritrea as Tensions Mount
Friday, 4 November 2005, 3:47 pm | United Nations
Secretary-General Kofi Annan and the United Nations Security Council today strongly urged Eritrea and Ethiopia to refrain any threat or use of force as a UN envoy prepared to visit the region, where tensions are rising between the two formerly warring neighbours. More >>
