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June 1997 The Oxfam Emergencies Bulletin aims to give an overview of Oxfam's current emergency work world-wide, for use in communications work. It appears monthly. Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) - DPRK International concern over the reports coming out of the…

(Excerpt) DAILY HIGHLIGHTS The United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator has completed his four-day humanitarian mission to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), which is suffering from the effects of three years of continuous flood damage. Under-Secretary-General Yasushi Akashi's visit to the…

Tehran/Geneva, 1 July 1997 (RFE/RL) Iran's Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Velayati repeated calls for a peaceful solution in Afghanistan during talks in Tehran today with a former Afghan president. Velayati, meeting Sibghatullah Mojadeddi, said no group in Afghanistan can rule without…

A heightening of military activity in the north of Afghanistan has involved setbacks for the Taliban on a scale that they have not endured since their rapid sweep into control of most of the country began last year. Large-scale…

PYONGYANG, North Korea -- A ship chartered by the World Food Programme has arrived in North Korea with urgently needed food aid for the northeast of the country where hunger is widespread, WFP reported today. The shipment will be the…

June 1997 The Oxfam Emergencies Bulletin aims to give an overview of Oxfam's current emergency work world-wide, for use in communications work. It appears monthly. Bangladesh When a severe cyclone hit the south-east coast of Bangladesh between Chittagong and Cox's Bazar…

North Korea: by Jonathan Frerichs, Lutheran World Relief communication director New York, July 1, 1997 -- (This special news release analyzes the emerging crisis in North Korea. A version of this article also appears in the July 2, 1997 issue…

(Excerpt) DAILY HIGHLIGHTS The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has announced the launching of an international appeal for the supply of about 50,000 tons of fertilizer to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. The UN agency, charged, among other…

DATELINE ACT North Korea No 3 Geneva, July 1, 1997 Below please find the travel report of ACT/Norwegian Church Aid communicator Ingeborg Vea who just returned from North Korea. Please note that this is Ingeborg Vea's personal travel report…

A senior United Nations official has urged South Korea to separate humanitarian issues from political ones, and give more aid to hungry North Korea. Yasushi Akashi, under secretary-general of the U-N Department of Humanitarian Affairs, made the remark in Beijing, on…