Geneva, 23 June– WHO has today removed Hong Kong from its list of areas with recent local transmission of SARS. Twenty days, which is twice the maximum incubation period, have passed since the last case […]

Freetown, Sierra Leone, 23 June– Responding to a request from the Special Court for Sierra Leone, Switzerland announced today that various personal and business accounts of President Charles Taylor of Liberia had been blocked or […]

New York/Ouagadougou, 23 June– Heading to Burkina Faso to launch an initiative to give more young females in West and Central Africa access to a quality education, the chief of the United Nations Children’s Fund […]

Dead Sea, Jordan, 23 June– Declaring the world at a crossroads between a return to the horrors of the first half of the twentieth century or the burgeoning hopes of the second, United Nations Secretary-General […]

Dead Sea, Jordan, 22 June– The successful reconstruction of Iraq will require that newly acquired political freedoms be accompanied by economic freedoms and the reversal of ”decades of economic mismanagement” by the former Ba’athist regime, […]

Dead Sea, Jordan, 22 June– Statement By The Quartet Representatives of the Quartet – United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov, Greek Foreign Minister George Papandreou, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, […]

New York, 21 June– The Security Council plans to meet Monday on the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), a United Nations spokesman announced today. The Council’s meeting will be held behind […]

Geneva, 20 June– The UN refugee agency today attempted to clarify its position on ways to improve the protection of refugees in their regions of origin, dispelling misinterpretations that had sprung up in the run-up […]