Afghanistan
The Head of the United Nations Special Mission to Afghanistan, Norbert Heinrich Holl, told correspondents at a Headquarters briefing today that "the Afghanistan meeting" had been held yesterday. (The idea of a closed meeting on Afghanistan, convened by the Secretary- General,…
Democratic People's Republic of Korea
DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF KOREA: FLOOD RELIEF THIS APPEAL SEEKS CHF 13,533,000 IN CASH, KIND AND SERVICES TO ASSIST 139,000 BENEFICIARIES FOR 11 MONTHS This appeal will form part of the Federation's 1997 Emergency Appeal, but is being released separately in…
Afghanistan
KABUL, Nov 18 (Reuter) - Monday's United Nations meeting on Afghanistan is the latest in a series of attempts to persuade the country's warring factions to negotiate a peaceful end to the conflict. Since the collapse of the communist regime in…
Afghanistan
AI INDEX: ASA11/13/96 News Service 217/96 World governments meeting in New York in UN sponsored talks on Afghanistan must halt the human rights abuses inflicted by all warring factions on the Afghan people, Amnesty International said. "These are the same governments that have…
Afghanistan
KABUL, Nov 17 (Reuter) - On the eve of a United Nations debate on Afghanistan, the Taleban Islamic movement has appealed for recognition as the legitimate authority in Afghanistan. The acting Minister of Information in the Taleban administration, Amir Khan…
Afghanistan
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Nov 13 (Reuter) A U.N. peace mission for Afghanistan said on Wednesday it had drawn up a revised plan for a ceasefire to be discussed next week with rival factions locked in battle north of Kabul and…
Afghanistan
OVERALL SITUATION Acting Taliban Foreign Minister Mulla Mohammad Ghaus and General Mohammad Payenda, representative of General Dostum, met under UN auspices in Islamabad on 8 November. Dr. Norbert Holl, Head of the UN Special Mission described the talks as a…
Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan (Reuter) - Fighting on the front lines north of the Afghan capital Kabul intensified Monday, with the radical Islamic Taleban militia and its opponents exchanging tank, artillery and rocket rounds. A Taleban commander on the so-called old road, which…
Afghanistan
ISLAMABAD (Nov 11, 1996 04:54 a.m. EST) - Fierce fighting between the radical Islamic Taleban militia and its opponents has forced 40,000 to 50,000 Afghans to flee their homes in northwestern Afghanistan, a U.N. refugee agency said on Monday. "Around…
Afghanistan
KABUL (Nov 10, 1996 01:48 a.m. EST) Witnesses report the Kabul airport was bombed Sunday by jets from northern General Abdul Rashid Dostum's air force as the two sides exchanged artillery fire. They said the planes made two bombing runs, dropping…
