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ISLAMABAD, April 28 (Reuter) - Afghanistan's Taleban Islamic government said on Monday it would not destroy two world-famous giant statues of Buddha, after an international outcry against reports that they were threatened. ''Taleban won't destroy the sculptures at Bamiyan,'' the government's…

(excerpt) Issued weekly by the United Nations World Food Programme This report includes: A) Democratic People's Republic of Korea B) Burundi, Rwanda, Zaire and Tanzania C) Uganda D) Sahel E) Iraq F) Albania. From P. Ares, Chief, Programming Service. Available on the…

Because of the continuing deterioration of the food situation in the People's Democratic Republic of Korea (DPRK), our request for a delegation from World Vision International to visit North Korea was approved. After spending five days in North Korea seeing the…

SG/SM/6222 The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary- General Kofi Annan: The Secretary-General is deeply disturbed by reports that the great Buddhist sculptures in the Province of Baniyan in Afghanistan may be under threat of destruction in…

DATE=4/23/97 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT NUMBER=2-213294 TITLE=AFGHAN DISPLACED (L-ONLY) BYLINE=DOUGLAS BAKSHIAN DATELINE=ISLAMABAD CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: A BUILDUP OF DISPLACED PEOPLE IS REPORTED IN NORTHWESTERN AFGHANISTAN. THERE IS NO IMMEDIATE EXPLANATION FOR THE GROWING NUMBERS BUT IN THE PAST OUTBREAKS OF FIGHTING HAVE PROMPTED SUCH MOVEMENTS. VOA CORRESPONDENT DOUGLAS BAKSHIAN…

Kevin Platt, Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor BEIJING -- Most North Koreans who attempt to flee from their Stalinist nation's worsening food shortage are unlikely to make it through the wall of informers and border guards that blocks…

South Korea and Japan have ruled out providing extra food aid for North Korea after the failure in New York of attempts to establish peace talks. South Korea's Foreign Minister Yoo Chong-Ha says Seoul will not accept Pyongyang's demand for…

DATE=4/21/97 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT NUMBER=2-213210 TITLE=KOREA TALKS/ FOOD AID (L) BYLINE=MAX RUSTON DATELINE=NEW YORK CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: TALKS IN NEW YORK BETWEEN NORTH KOREA, SOUTH KOREA AND THE UNITED STATES ARE FACING FURTHER DELAYS, CAUSED BY NORTH KOREA'S EFFORTS TO LINK POLITICAL ISSUES WITH ITS REQUESTS FOR…

DATE=4/18/97 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT NUMBER=2-213077 TITLE=NORTH KOREA FOOD AID (L-ONLY) BYLINE=SHIN NA DATELINE=SEOUL CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: THE SOUTH KOREAN RED CROSS FRIDAY PROPOSED A MEETING WITH ITS NORTH KOREAN COUNTERPART TO DISCUSS DELIVERY OF FOOD AID AND OTHER RELIEF GOODS TO THE FAMINE-STRICKEN NORTH. SHIN NA REPORTSFROM…

Time is running out for North Korea. Relief food must be pledged and urgently delivered into the country to avert a humanitarian catastrophe. North Korean authorities say that food stocks in the country will be exhausted by the end…