Informes

The two warring parties in Afghanistan, the Taliban and the United Front, have come to an agreement on a comprehensive exchange of prisoners of war, a United Nations spokesman announced today in News York. The talks, which concluded today, were conducted…

HR/00/33 The following statement was issued today by the Special Rapporteur of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights on the situation in Afghanistan, Kamal Hossain. It follows an appeal the Special Rapporteur addressed on 26 April 2000 to Mawlawi…

EXPLOSION IN SUAI Dili, 9 May 2000 Eleven people, including one Peacekeeper from the New Zealand Battalion and four children, were injured on Monday in an explosion accident on the outskirts of Suai, in the district of Covalima. The explosion happened…

A small well in the Rajasthan desert, from which no one has been allowed to draw water for 35 years because half of it is in India and the other half in Pakistan, symbolizes the acute problem of drought…

The United States government this year has contributed almost $140 million to the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNCHR), including a May 9 donation of $25 million, according to Department of State Spokesman Richard Boucher. In a press statement, Boucher…

SG/SM/7383 The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan: Francesc Vendrell, Personal Representative of the United Nations Secretary- General and head of the United Nations Special Mission in Afghanistan (UNSMA), visited India on 2 to 5…

Following the initiation of a mass relief operation in the drought stricken areas of Sindh and Balochistan, a meeting was convened by the Cabinet Division, Government of Pakistan on 9th May 2000, to brief the UN Disaster Management Team.…

By Anwar Mansuri, dpa Islamabad (dpa) - Two years ago this month, Pakistan's Chaghai region became a symbol of pride for many Pakistanis and a symbol of horror to the world when six nuclear tests were carried out there. Today…

Returns: The total number of organised and spontaneous returns into East Timor from West Timor, other parts of Indonesia, Macau and Australia now stands at over 160,854 returns. Over the past few days returns continue to be very low…

There is a continuing need to return displaced people in West Timor to their communities of origin in East Timor, in order for rehabilitation, reconstruction and development to begin. The safe and orderly return transportation of displaced people is…