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Light August Agenda, But Council To Follow Events
Wednesday, 3 August 2005, 2:22 pm | United Nations
Although the United Nations Security Council’s work programme for August would be relatively light, the 15-nation body’s president for the month today said that it would nevertheless follow closely key international events, including the mid-month ... More >>
Thailand Gets General Assembly Seat Of Honour
Wednesday, 3 August 2005, 2:20 pm | United Nations
In an annual game of rotating seating, Thailand won the first front row seat in the United Nations General Assembly Hall for the next session, starting in September, in a drawing performed by Secretary-General Kofi Annan, a spokeswoman for the Assembly ... More >>
Annan Proposes Team In Sierra Leone
Wednesday, 3 August 2005, 11:58 am | United Nations
The United Nations would work closely with the Government of Sierra Leone on consolidating peace after the West African country's long civil conflict by addressing such underlying causes as deficits in governance, human rights observance and the rule of law, according ... More >>
Concern Raised For Uzbek Detainees In Kyrgyzstan
Wednesday, 3 August 2005, 10:29 am | United Nations
The United Nations refugee agency today again voiced “extreme concern” over the continued detention of 15 Uzbeks in Kyrgyzstan after more than 400 of their compatriots, who fled violence in their homeland two months ago, were flown to Romania on Friday. More >>
Sudan: Garang Killed Children Now More Vulnerable
Wednesday, 3 August 2005, 10:25 am | United Nations
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has urged all sides in Sudan to press on with the peace accords following the death of Vice-President John Garang de Mabior in a helicopter crash, for the sake of the children of Africa’s largest country. More >>
Iran Urged Not To Resume Nuclear Activities
Wednesday, 3 August 2005, 10:23 am | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today called on Iran not to restart its nuclear activities before receiving the latest European proposals aimed at finding a diplomatic solution to the issue arising out of Tehran's two decades-long concealment ... More >>
Security Council Mourns Death Of Saudi King Fahd
Wednesday, 3 August 2005, 10:17 am | United Nations
Mourning the death of Saudi Arabian King Fahd Bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud, the United Nations Security Council today paid tribute to what Secretary-General Kofi Annan yesterday called the long-time Saudi leader’s “enduring contributions” to international ... More >>
Security Council Calls For Calm In Sudan
Wednesday, 3 August 2005, 10:16 am | United Nations
As the United Nations mission in Sudan (UNMIS) reported ongoing violence in and around the capital, Khartoum, after the death of Vice-President and ex-southern rebel leader John Garang, the Security Council today called for calm and urged the world to rally ... More >>
Côte d’Ivoire Mission Deplores Peacekeepr Wounding
Wednesday, 3 August 2005, 9:50 am | United Nations
The United Nations Operation in Côte d’Ivoire (UNOCI) today condemned a recent incident in which an unidentified gunman stole a cell phone from a West African peacekeeper and then wounded him. It called on the national authorities to investigate. More >>
Somalia: Envoy Wraps Up Visit
Wednesday, 3 August 2005, 12:02 am | United Nations
The top United Nations envoy for Somalia has wrapped up private talks in the town of Jowhar with senior Somali officials who pledged to work with the UN to heal the rift over the government’s location and the deployment of foreign peacekeepers that ... More >>
Face Of Hunger In Niger
Wednesday, 3 August 2005, 12:00 am | United Nations
A tiny head, eyes closed, lolling above a spine and ribs jutting starkly under the skin exemplifies the face of hunger on the front line of the United Nations-backed war against hunger in Niger today, where 3.5 million people have been affected by ... More >>
Zimbabwe: UN Expert Calls For Action
Tuesday, 2 August 2005, 11:40 am | United Nations
A senior United Nations human rights official has called for rapid action by the world body in conjunction with the Government of the southern African country to end the "ongoing violations of human rights on the massive scale" entailed by the ... More >>
Panel To Draft New Plan For Nigeria’s Withdrawl
Tuesday, 2 August 2005, 10:17 am | United Nations
The United Nations-sponsored Cameroon-Nigeria Mixed Commission will establish a working group to draft a new programme for Nigeria’s withdrawal from the Bakassi Peninsula, which the World Court awarded to Cameroon in October 2002, and submit the plan to ... More >>
Annan Appoints Dutch Diplomat Envoy to West Sahara
Tuesday, 2 August 2005, 10:16 am | United Nations
Secretary-General Kofi Annan has appointed Peter van Walsum, the former Dutch Permanent Representative to the United Nations, as his Personal Envoy assisting the parties in the Western Sahara settle the disputed territory's status. More >>
UN Agencies Bring Aid To Flood-Hit Western India
Tuesday, 2 August 2005, 10:14 am | United Nations
United Nations agencies are providing help to states in western India where unprecedented heavy rains and flooding have killed some 1,000 people, destroyed 10,000 houses, damaged hundreds of thousands of hectares of crops lands and drowned 15,000 sheep ... More >>
UN Peacekeepers Move Against Kidnapping In Haiti
Tuesday, 2 August 2005, 10:11 am | United Nations
The United Nations peacekeepers in Haiti, taking action to reduce criminal activity in the capital's sprawling Bel-Air district, secured the releases of two kidnapped people, arrested more than two dozen people and seized false papers, munitions and ... More >>
Swedish Schoolchildren To Plant “Diversity” Trees
Tuesday, 2 August 2005, 10:09 am | United Nations
As a gift to Secretary-General Kofi Annan, schoolchildren from a small Swedish village have raised money to purchase multi-variety apple trees that can be seen to represent harmony among the diverse global community. More >>
Largest Donation So Far To New Palestine Food Plan
Tuesday, 2 August 2005, 10:07 am | United Nations
The United Nations World Food Programme today announced the largest donation so far to its new operation in the occupied Palestinian territory, €8 million (about $10 million) from the European Union (EU) to provide food aid for almost half a million ... More >>
Bolton Welcomed As Us Ambassador During UN Reform
Tuesday, 2 August 2005, 12:53 am | United Nations
Secretary-General Kofi Annan said today that he looked forward to working with John Bolton, appointed today by President Bush as United States Ambassador to the United Nations. "We will welcome him at a time when we are in the midst of major reform," ... More >>
UN Envoy Briefs Iraq's President On Support
Monday, 1 August 2005, 2:14 pm | United Nations
The senior United Nations envoy to Iraq today held talks with the country's President on the ongoing political transition, including planned elections. More >>
