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Current Trade and Aid Pledges Must Be Exceeded
Thursday, 30 June 2005, 11:49 am | United Nations
United Nations General Assembly President Jean Ping has called on the international community to honour and even exceed current commitments on debt reduction, trade and aid so as to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) of eliminating or reducing ... More >>
Development Council: Annan Says Growth Not Enough
Thursday, 30 June 2005, 11:46 am | United Nations
As the United Nations’ main forum for development issues opened its policy session today, Secretary-General Kofi Annan said that economic growth alone is not enough to improve the living conditions of the world’s poor, even if the current robust ... More >>
Annan Urges Talks on Relocating Somali Interim Gvt
Thursday, 30 June 2005, 11:43 am | United Nations
In order to rebuild trust with the people of Somalia and the international community, Somali leaders must begin a serious dialogue to heal their divisions and end the controversy over the relocation of the fledgling government and its institutions ... More >>
Animation Competition Marks UN’s 60th Birthday
Thursday, 30 June 2005, 11:41 am | United Nations
The United Nations is enlisting the tools of animation from 2-dimensional cartoons to computer-aided wizardry to celebrate its 60th Anniversary in the Asia-Pacific region. More >>
UNESCO Call to Save World’s Underwater Heritage
Thursday, 30 June 2005, 11:40 am | United Nations
Seeking to preserve the world’s underwater heritage, from wonders such as the ancient Alexandria Lighthouse to historic shipwrecks to sunken cities and stone age lake settlements, the United Nations cultural organization today called on more countries ... More >>
Food Programme Hails China Emergence As Aid Donor
Thursday, 30 June 2005, 11:38 am | United Nations
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today hailed China's continuing emergence as a multilateral aid donor with the departure of a Chinese ship carrying 270 tons of canned fish for Sri Lankan victims of last December's devastating tsunami. More >>
Expansion in Fight against AIDS, TB, Malaria
Thursday, 30 June 2005, 11:37 am | United Nations
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, a unique global public-private partnership created three years ago on the initiative of United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, today reported a rapid expansion in treatment and other services over ... More >>
Agency Funds Small And Medium Farmers In Georgia
Thursday, 30 June 2005, 10:49 am | United Nations
A new project to increase incomes and agribusiness opportunities among small and medium-scale farmers in 300 rural communities in Georgia received $10 million, mainly in a loan, from the United Nations International Fund for Agricultural Development ... More >>
Iraq: UN Envoy Holds New Talks
Thursday, 30 June 2005, 10:26 am | United Nations
Continuing his efforts to bring about the inclusion of all sectors of Iraqi society in writing the new constitution, the top United Nations envoy to that country held a series of meetings over the past 24 hours with Sunni and Shiite Arab leaders and ... More >>
UN Ecological Reserves Adds 22 New Sites
Thursday, 30 June 2005, 10:25 am | United Nations
Ranging from coastal mangrove forests to desert mountains chains, and stretching from Chile to Mongolia, 22 ecosystems have been added to a United Nations programme that promotes sustainable development on a scientific basis with the active involvement ... More >>
Annan Updates Council on ‘Oil-For-Food' Investig'n
Thursday, 30 June 2005, 12:21 am | United Nations
Secretary-General Kofi Annan met this afternoon with members of the Security Council to provide an update on the Independent Inquiry Committee (IIC), which is headed by former United States Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker and is looking into ... More >>
Release Of Former Serbian Police Chief
Thursday, 30 June 2005, 12:17 am | United Nations
The United Nations International Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) today released a former Serbian police chief serving a 10-year war crimes conviction in Spain, based on time served and his agreement to cooperate with the Court in its ... More >>
UN Housing Expert To Meet Mugabe
Wednesday, 29 June 2005, 1:54 pm | United Nations
Dispatched by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to evaluate the recent evictions of some 200,000 poor people from illegal housing in Zimbabwe, the chief of United Nations agency for human settlements expects President Robert Mugabe to receive her within ... More >>
UN Peacekeepers Clear Area Of Militia Members
Wednesday, 29 June 2005, 1:52 pm | United Nations
United Nations peacekeeping troops undertook a successful cordon-and-search operation in the Ituri district of the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo yesterday, two days after the transit sites for ex-combatants were closed down, and cleared the ... More >>
Global Leaders And Experts To Open Annual Meeting
Wednesday, 29 June 2005, 11:30 am | United Nations
The annual meeting of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) opens tomorrow as Government leaders and agency chiefs address the raft of issues on the UN's development agenda, from poverty and human rights to issues in trade, markets, ... More >>
Annan Urges EU To Go Further
Wednesday, 29 June 2005, 9:58 am | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today called on the European Union (EU) to go further in its efforts to assist developing countries, as he continued to praise its recent initiatives increasing official development assistance, improving quality ... More >>
Parties Urged To Support Peace Agreement In Sudan
Wednesday, 29 June 2005, 9:54 am | United Nations
With a peace agreement ending the decades-long civil war in southern Sudan and the arrival of United Nations peacekeepers, Secretary-General Kofi Annan is calling on international donors and the Sudanese parties to meet high expectations for significant ... More >>
UN Water Project In Northern Africa
Wednesday, 29 June 2005, 9:48 am | United Nations
A United Nations project to help northern African countries manage shared groundwater through nuclear science has received a $1-million grant from an independent body that provides grants to developing countries for projects benefiting the global environment ... More >>
Workshop For Iraq Human Rights Defenders
Wednesday, 29 June 2005, 9:45 am | United Nations
With 4,000 new non-governmental and civil society organizations (NGOs) mushrooming in Iraq after the collapse of Saddam Hussein’s one party rule, the United Nations is holding a three-day workshop for some 30 Iraqi human rights defenders in Amman, ... More >>
UN Seeks $6.7 Million To Feed Refugees In Kenya
Wednesday, 29 June 2005, 9:37 am | United Nations
With refugee numbers in Kenya failing to decline despite peace moves in Somalia and Sudan, the United Nations World Food Programme today appealed for $6.7 million to feed nearly a quarter of a million refugees in two northern Kenyan camps until the ... More >>
