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Annan Calls For Effort To Negotiate In Middle East
Tuesday, 19 July 2005, 12:35 am | United Nations
Voicing alarm at the renewed violence between Israel and the Palestinians in recent weeks, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today called on both sides to work for a negotiated settlement. More >>
LEBANON: UN Envoy Discusses Way Forward
Tuesday, 19 July 2005, 12:34 am | United Nations
A senior United Nation official today briefed European Union (EU) Foreign Ministers on the situation in Lebanon, including the withdrawal of Syrian military and intelligence personnel and the disarming and disbanding of all Lebanese and non-Lebanese militias ... More >>
International Donors’ Conference On Iraq Opens
Tuesday, 19 July 2005, 12:30 am | United Nations
Representatives of more than 60 countries and international organizations opened a two-day meeting in Jordan today to review the progress of donor-financed reconstruction in Iraq, with a senior United Nations official calling for greater flexibility in ... More >>
UN Concern About Housing Demolitions In Zimbabwe
Tuesday, 19 July 2005, 12:26 am | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today voiced increasing concern about the human rights and humanitarian aspects of the housing demolitions in Zimbabwe. More >>
Biblical Sites In Israel Join World Heritage List
Tuesday, 19 July 2005, 12:25 am | United Nations
Biblical settlement mounds in Israel, a museum city in Albania, a 3,000-year-old necropolis in Italy and a sacred grove dotted with shrines in Nigeria are among 17 sites newly inscribed on the United Nations list of places to be preserved as part ... More >>
Iraq: In Face Of 'Heinous' Suicide Attacks
Tuesday, 19 July 2005, 12:22 am | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today condemned the recent wave of suicide bombings in Iraq as "heinous attacks" and called on all Iraqis to build a united, democratic and prosperous Iraq through peaceful means. More >>
UN From Helping To Resolve Conflicts – Annan
Tuesday, 19 July 2005, 12:19 am | United Nations
Even in the midst of a far-reaching debate on organizational reform, the United Nations would not be distracted from certain urgent tasks, particularly the need to resolve protracted conflicts and ensure that countries in difficult transitions received ... More >>
Violence Against Women Remains Dramatic
Tuesday, 19 July 2005, 12:16 am | United Nations
From forced child marriages entailing physical and sexual abuse to the public execution of a woman on local council’s orders, from girls burning themselves to death out of despair to impunity for abusers, violence against women in Afghanistan is a dramatic ... More >>
Annan Meets Foreign Ministers Of Countries
Monday, 18 July 2005, 1:27 pm | United Nations
Senior officials from Brazil, Germany, India and Japan -- all countries that have expressed their desire to become permanent members of the United Nations Security Council -- met today with Secretary-General Kofi Annan in New York ahead of key negotiations ... More >>
Bridging the Gap Between Islamic, Western World
Friday, 15 July 2005, 8:41 am | United Nations
Amid concerns that extremists are exploiting the sense of a widening gap between Islamic and Western societies, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today announced the launch of a new initiative, co-sponsored by Spain and Turkey, which ... More >>
Chief Deplores Massacre Of Kenyan Villagers
Friday, 15 July 2005, 8:33 am | United Nations
The United Nations Emergency Coordinator today condemned the attack on a Kenyan village by a group of heavily armed fighters that left 44 dead – nearly half of them uniformed schoolchildren – and his office convened a Rapid Onset Disaster Committee to help ... More >>
Envoy Meets Al-Sistani And Moqtada Al-Sadr
Friday, 15 July 2005, 8:30 am | United Nations
United Nations efforts in Iraq were the focus of separate meetings in Najaf today between the world body's top envoy to the country and the Grand Ayatollah Ali al Sistani as well as Shi'ite Muslim cleric Moqtada al- Sadr. More >>
UN Studies Moving Countries From Relief to Devlpmt
Friday, 15 July 2005, 12:17 am | United Nations
Managing recovery from natural or man-made disasters requires both resources for surviving the emergency and funding to build national capabilities and empower communities, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan says in a report on moving countries ... More >>
Annan Presses for Enlarged Security Council
Friday, 15 July 2005, 12:09 am | United Nations
Pressing ahead with his proposal to enlarge the United Nations Security Council, which has primary responsibility for the maintenance of global peace and security, Secretary-General Kofi Annan has said the 15-member body is not sufficiently democratic ... More >>
UN AIDS Programme Criticizes SA Police Action
Friday, 15 July 2005, 12:08 am | United Nations
Declaring police action during a protest by people living with HIV at a South African hospital “unacceptable,” the main United Nations body advocating global action on the pandemic warned today that violence against protesters threatens efforts to respond ... More >>
Afghanistan: Expert Meets With Female Prisoners
Friday, 15 July 2005, 12:07 am | United Nations
The United Nations expert on violence against women, on a 10-day fact-finding mission to Afghanistan, has interviewed female prisoners in Kabul and Kandahar, the two largest cities in a country where women’s rights were seriously restricted under the Taliban ... More >>
Tsunami Envoy Clinton Urges UN to Keep Up Momentum
Friday, 15 July 2005, 12:05 am | United Nations
Former United States President Bill Clinton, the United Nations Special Envoy overseeing recovery efforts from last December's devastating Indian Ocean tsunami, today urged the UN and its partners to maintain momentum for what may by the most difficult phase, ... More >>
Security Council Welcomes Sudan's New Government
Friday, 15 July 2005, 12:04 am | United Nations
The United Nations Security Council today encouraged the Presidency of Sudan's newly inaugurated Government of National Unity and other parties to take urgent steps to resolve the crisis in Darfur through peaceful means, and to be prepared to make decisive ... More >>
Poor In Algeria Will Benefit From Development Fund
Thursday, 14 July 2005, 4:23 pm | United Nations
Poor farmers in remote areas of Chad and Algeria will benefit from loans provided by the United Nations, the UN agricultural development agency said today. More >>
Haiti Official Praises Government-Donor Cooperat'n
Thursday, 14 July 2005, 11:57 am | United Nations
Two Goodwill Ambassadors for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), international football stars Ronaldo and Zinédine Zidane of Real Madrid, have raised $120,000 for humanitarian projects in a Haitian shantytown, the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti ... More >>
