Reports

1. Emergency overview and recent developments As Afghanistan enters its 21st year of war, over 1.5 million people have been killed, including some 400,000 children. At least 700,000 women have been widowed and approximately 800,000 people are…

DSG/SM/84 - SC/6804 Outlines Steps Needed to Improve Security, Including Increased Funding, Ratification of Rome Statute, Bringing Perpetrators to Justice Following is the statement of Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette to the Security Council meeting on the protection of United Nations and…

Over 130,000 East Timorese people have returned home since fleeing post-election violence in East Timor in September last year. Hundreds of thousands of people were displaced as Indonesian military and militias wreaked havoc across East Timor, following an overwhelming vote…

Sergio Vieira de Mello, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General in East Timor, said Wednesday he had received assurances that international funds for reconstruction would be made available "speedily." Mr. Vieira de Mello was speaking on his return to the capital,…

These are near verbatim excerpts of a press briefing by SRSG Sergio Vieira de Mello at Dili airport upon his arrival from New York and his address to the Timorese officers of the new Border Control Service. Dili 9 February…

Dili, 9 February 2000 SRSG Sergio Vieira de Mello arrived in Dili today at 1.20 PM after his trip to Jakarta, Geneva and New York. He left Indonesia in the morning and arrived at Komoro Airport together with the Peacekeeping…

The Foreign Minister of Argentina, Adalberto Rodriguez Giavarini, addressed correspondents at a Headquarters press conference this afternoon. The Foreign Minister, who in his capacity as Security Council President, was presiding over today's Council meeting on protection of United Nations personnel,…

General: At the hight of the rainy season, access to some of the generally hard-to-reach districts is becoming more difficult with increasingly deteriorating road conditions. In addition to Covalima District, which was cut off last weekend at the Beco river…

Primary responsibility rests with host government, Cunningham says Ambassador James Cunningham of the United States addressed the United Nations Security Council February 9 on the issue of protecting U.N. and other humanitarian workers. "Under all circumstances, U.N. and associated personnel have a…

Press Release SC/6803 Thirty-one Speakers Address Council, Including Deputy Secretary-General, World Food Programme's Executive Director The Security Council this afternoon urged States to act promptly and effectively in bringing to justice all those responsible for violence against United…