The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reported today that “Emergency food aid now accounts for one half to two thirds of all food aid, with 39 countries receiving it. Over the past two decades, the number of food emergencies has doubled from 15 to 30 a year, with much of the increase occurring in [...]
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AFP reported that “The sudden wintry snap, which follows a period of unseasonably warm weather across Europe, was nevertheless welcome relief for ski resorts in the French and Swiss Alps, many of which had previously been unable to open for lack of snow. Up to 70 centimetres (28 inches) of snow fell in the Swiss [...]
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Attention au gel! Publié le 24 janvier 2007 La police genevoise publie aujourd’hui une mise en garde contre le gel et les chutes d’arbres dues au poids de la neige tombée au cours de ces dernières heures. La police recommande au public d’éviter de se promener dans les parcs, promenades, forêts et zones boisées. Le [...]
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The UN spokesperson told journalists at UNHQ/NY on Tuesday that “the restructuring project is now in front of different members of the General Assembly. As long as this has not passed, there won’t be any further appointments, I don’t think. We might have some, but at this point. I don’t think we’ll have any major [...]
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The US leaks last week, to the two powerful conservative American media — the Wall Street Journal and Fox News — about American objections to how the UN Development Programme (UNDP) operated financially in North Korea over the past 8-10 years, occurred at the same time that a U.S. State Department negotiator, Christopher Hill, was [...]
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Why did China shoot down one of its own “old” satellites, orbiting more than 500 miles out in space, now? It did so to influence the debate in the Conference on Disarmament, which opened its 2007 session at the Palais des Nations in Geneva on Monday. China, which has traditionally maintained a rather low profile [...]
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More results from the SG’s meetings at UNHQ/NY, as announced by the spokesperson: “The Secretary-General met today with Heads of Funds and Programmes to discuss the need to ensure staff mobility…The Secretary-General told the Executive Heads he has decided to open a number of positions in his own office to expressions of interest from staff [...]
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Last Friday, after reports published in two powerful conservative U.S. media — the Wall Street Journal and Fox News — accusing the UN Development Programme (UNDP) of channelling foreign currency to North Korea, SG BAN ordered “an urgent, system wide and external inquiry into all activities done around the globe by the UN funds and programmes.â€Â http://www.un.org/News/briefings/docs/2007/db070119.doc.htm Now, it [...]
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The new UNSG BAN KI-MOON issued a statement on Friday, calling on all involved in the six-party talks on denuclearization of the Korean peninsula ”to redouble their efforts toward implementation of the Joint Statement of 19 September 2005.â€Â The UN News Centre (the UN uses British spelling) reports that the UN spokesperson noted that this Joint Statement is [...]
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The Juba Post, a Sudanese newspaper, reports that former UN Envoy Jan Pronk, a liberal Dutch politician who was declared persona non grata by Sudan due to his blogging comments, has hit back at the UN for its inaction: “Jan Pronk, former Special representative of the Secretary General of the UN, has condemned the Sudan [...]
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Filed under: Kofi Annan, Sudan - Darfur, UN Peacekeeping, UN Secretary-General, UN Security Council