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Lebanon: Annan Condemns Latest Bombing
Wednesday, 13 July 2005, 9:52 am | United Nations
Condemning the car bombing north of Beirut, which wounded Lebanon's defense minister and killed two people today, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan strongly urged the Government of Lebanon to exert every effort to bring to justice those behind ... More >>
Format For Biometric Passports
Wednesday, 13 July 2005, 9:50 am | United Nations
In an effort to increase aviation security and streamline airport controls, the machine readable passport (MRP) in the format specified by the United Nations civil aviation agency, with integrated information chip and optional iris or fingerprint recognition, ... More >>
UN Agency Triples Number Needing Emergency Food
Wednesday, 13 July 2005, 9:48 am | United Nations
With impoverished Niger suffering from a poor rainy season and devastation to its crops and grazing land from the worst locust invasion in 15 years, the United Nations World Food Programme More >>
Prudent Use Of Natural Resources Can Boost Profits
Wednesday, 13 July 2005, 9:47 am | United Nations
With many of the planet’s ecosystems such as fisheries, forests and water supplies in serious decline, a new report by the United Nations Environment Programme More >>
Over 1,000 DR Of Congo Refugees Have Returned
Wednesday, 13 July 2005, 9:45 am | United Nations
In what it called one of its most unusual and logistically challenging voluntary repatriations in a region lacking passable roads, the United Nations refugee agency has helped another convoy to get back to the Democratic Republic of the Congo's (DRC) ... More >>
Annan Condemns Suicide Attack In Israel
Wednesday, 13 July 2005, 12:34 am | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today strongly condemned the suicide attack in Israel that killed at least two people and wounded many others, saying he was "unwavering in his conviction that nothing can justify terror. More >>
Illicit Weapons Report Gives Guidelines On Tracing
Wednesday, 13 July 2005, 12:13 am | United Nations
The draft text of an international instrument to help United Nations Member States identify, trace and eliminate illicit trading in small arms and light weapons has been prepared for formal submission to the next General Assembly, starting in September. More >>
Donors' Conference For Elections In DR Of Congo
Tuesday, 12 July 2005, 1:09 pm | United Nations
The head of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is in Belgium today taking part in a donors' conference organized by the European Union (EU) to raise funds for the electoral process under way in ... More >>
Central African Republic Needs Immediate Support
Tuesday, 12 July 2005, 11:47 am | United Nations
Stressing the risk that impoverished post-election Central African Republic (CAR) could slide back into conflict if not given immediate aid, a senior United Nations official today said the Government needs help in paying more than three years of ... More >>
Annan Lauds Progress Against Arms Smuggling
Tuesday, 12 July 2005, 10:23 am | United Nations
Congratulating the international community on its willingness to work together on combating illicit trading of small arms and light weapons, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today called for speedy additional efforts to negotiate a new, legally ... More >>
Murder Of Somali Activist Undermines Peace
Tuesday, 12 July 2005, 10:21 am | United Nations
The United Nations office in Somalia today condemned "the brutal assassination" of Somali peace activist Abdulkadir Yahya Ali, warning that such acts undermined prospects for ending turmoil in the war-torn Horn of Africa country. More >>
Agreement To Re-Start Talks On DPR Of Korea
Tuesday, 12 July 2005, 10:20 am | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today welcomed the agreement reached in Beijing by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) and United States negotiators to resume the six-party talks aimed at achieving a peaceful resolution ... More >>
Gender Equality As Way To Defeat Poverty
Tuesday, 12 July 2005, 10:18 am | United Nations
The United Nations marked World Population Day today by deploring the discrimination and violence against women and girls that is still rampant around the world and demanding full gender equality as the way to win the battle against poverty, hunger, armed ... More >>
Aid To 430,000 Palestinian Refugees In Syria
Tuesday, 12 July 2005, 10:16 am | United Nations
The main United Nations agency helping Palestinian refugees has allocated $3 million for some 30 additional health and social services projects in Syria, bringing its total assistance for this year for nearly 430,000 Palestinians living there to $31.3 ... More >>
DPR Of Korea: Children Malnourished
Tuesday, 12 July 2005, 10:14 am | United Nations
Despite some progress since the famine of the mid-1990s, children in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) are still malnourished and underweight by United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) standards. More >>
10th Anniversary Of Srebrenica Massacre
Tuesday, 12 July 2005, 10:02 am | United Nations
Commemorating the somber 10th anniversary of the fall of the Srebrenica – Europe's worst massacre since World War II – senior United Nations officials today vowed to “continue the fight…to secure a full and proper reckoning” for the families of some ... More >>
Guidelines For Vitamin And Food Supplements
Tuesday, 12 July 2005, 9:44 am | United Nations
Labelling to stop consumers overdosing on vitamin and mineral food supplements and guidelines to minimize the emergence of potentially deadly drug-resistant microbes were among some 20 new and amended standards announced today by a United Nations ... More >>
Iraq Reconstruction To Top Agenda Of Donors
Tuesday, 12 July 2005, 9:38 am | United Nations
Representatives of more than 60 countries and international organizations, including the United Nations and the World Bank, will gather at the Dead Sea in Jordan later this month to review progress and lessons learned from donor-financed reconstruction ... More >>
UNFCCC: G 8 leaders boost climate negotiations
Monday, 11 July 2005, 11:12 am | United Nations
Bonn, 8 July 2005 – "The commitment of the leaders of the G 8 to act now on climate change and to vigorously address the climate-energy-sustainable development interface will inspire current and future intergovernmental action", says Joke ... More >>
UN to Chart Progress Suppressing Small Arms Trade
Monday, 11 July 2005, 9:51 am | United Nations
Calling small arms the real weapons of mass destruction because of their daily toll on human life, the heads of a conference next week to review how United Nations Member States have implemented a programme to eliminate the trade in illicit weapons today ... More >>
