Rapports

Distr. GENERAL S/1997/366 13 May 1997 ORIGINAL: ENGLISH The members of the Security Council express their appreciation for your letter dated 1 May 1997 (A/51/886-S/1997/347) concerning the informal consultative meeting on Afghanistan, held in New York on 16 April 1997. They welcome your…

From the frontline Opposition forces last week attacked Jabul-us-Saraj, 77 kilometres north of Kabul, which was taken by Taliban forces on 23 January. The Taliban initially conceded that they had lost ground, but latest unconfirmed media reports suggest that they…

SEOUL, South Korea (Reuter) - South Korea said its navy intercepted a vessel carrying 14 North Korean asylum seekers on Monday -- one of the largest groups ever to flee the hunger-stricken communist nation. Meanwhile, a U.N. aid official reported that…

DATE=5/12/97 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT NUMBER=2-214110 TITLE=NORTH KOREAN FAMINE (L) BYLINE=GIL BUTLER DATELINE=BEIJING CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: A UNITED NATIONS WORLD FOOD PROGRAM OFFICIAL WHO JUST CONCLUDED A TRIP TO NORTH KOREA SAYS THE COUNTRY IS UNDERGOING WHAT HE CALLED A SLOW-MOTION FAMINE. TUN MYAT TOLD REPORTERS IN BEIJING…

DATE=5/12/97 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT NUMBER=2-214115 TITLE=KOREA / AID (S-ONLY) BYLINE=SARAH TOMS DATELINE=HONG KONG CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: A TOP-LEVEL SOUTH KOREAN RED CROSS OFFICIAL SAYS ANOTHER FOOD SHIPMENT IS DUE TO BE SENT NEXT WEEK TO NORTH KOREA. SARAH TOMS HAS MORE ON THE STORY FROM THE V-O-A…

KABUL, May 11 (Reuter) - Iran's killer earthquake also toppled a hospital wall in the western Afghan city of Herat on Saturday, crushing five people to death, a Red Cross official said. ''These are the only casualties we have confirmed, but…

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

ROME-A vessel chartered by the UN World Food Programme today began discharging the first shipment of emergency food aid under a new WFP appeal to avert famine in North Korea. The U.S. flagship Galveston Bay docked Wednesday with a cargo…

By Tim Johnston KABUL, May 8 (Reuter) - The U.N. special representative to Afghanistan visited Kabul on Thursday to discuss the country's food shortage and the purist Islamic Taleban's policy towards women. Special representative Norbert Holl said he recently visited…

TOKYO (Reuter) - The United States and South Korea do not plan to give large scale food aid to famine-hit North Korea until the communist nation agrees to open peace talks, Japanese officials said Wednesday. Briefing reporters on talks in…