Afghanistan
STRENGTHENING THE GOVERNMENT Program Goals Support the Bonn process: the Constitutional, Human Rights, and Judicial Commissions; the elections scheduled for June 2004; and a free and independent media. Improve government planning, budgeting, revenue generation (e.g., customs), monetary management, and private-sector related legal…
Afghanistan
TALKING POINTS Over 250,000 Afghans registered to vote As of now, 274,964 Afghans have registered in the eight main cities. This includes 215,781 men and 59,183 women. As the Secretary-General noted in his report to the Security Council, of which I will…
Afghanistan
Political participation, economic opportunity, education, health care The United States has implemented more than 175 programs for the benefit of Afghan women in the areas of political participation, economic opportunity, education, and health care, according to a fact sheet released January…
Afghanistan
KABUL, 7 January 2004 - Following the news announcements that a majority of those killed in the 6 January bomb blast in Kandahar were children, the Afghanistan Country Office of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has released the…
Afghanistan
SG/SM/9105, AFG/240 The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan: The Secretary-General was shocked and deeply disturbed to learn of the bomb attacks in Kandahar, Afghanistan, today in which 14 people were reportedly killed and 70…
Afghanistan
TALKING POINTS Afghanistan's new constitution After twenty-two days the Constitutional Loya Jirga came to a successful conclusion with the passing of a new constitution for Afghanistan after delegates stood up to demonstrate their support for the text. The closing ceremony was…
Afghanistan
Constitutional Loya Jirga Agreement was finally reached on 4th January 2004 on a new constitution for Afghanistan. Discussion at the Constitutional Loya Jirga convened on 14th December was often heated and revealed clear fault lines between Pushtuns and non-Pushtuns, between…
Afghanistan
S/2003/1212 I. Introduction 1. The present report is submitted pursuant to Security Council resolution 1471 (2003) of 28 March 2003, by which the Council decided to extend the mandate of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA)…
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec 26 (UNHCR) A top-ranking justice official in Pakistan has called for a new approach to deal with refugee-related court cases in a country that hosts millions of refugees but lacks domestic legislation to protect their rights…
Afghanistan
TALKING POINTS I will not brief you on the Constitutional Loya Jirga (CLJ) as I am not their Spokesman. However, if there are any questions that are related to UNAMA's role in support of the CLJ, I can try to…
