Rapports

The Government of Japan welcomes the fact that a mission of Japanese parliamentarians of all the major political parties, led by former Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama, achieved its intended objectives, and takes seriously the joint announcement issued with the North…

Pointing to a faster pace of reconciliation in East Timor, Secretary-General Kofi Annan today expressed the hope that an improved atmosphere would very soon allow the refugees still in West Timor camps to return home in peace and safety. Speaking…

Internally Displaced Persons Across the Frontlines The first phase of the UN crosslines assis-tance for Afghans from Shomali who were displaced into the Panjshir valley has been successfully concluded. After positive negotiations with both parties to the conflict, the UN relief operation…

The head of the United Nations administration in East Timor held a series of top-level meetings today in Jakarta to discuss the territory's future relations with Indonesia, a UN spokesman said today. Sergio Vieira de Mello, who heads the UN…

General: With the number of inaccessible villages growing as a result of deteriorating road conditions, coupled with the arrival of large tonnages of shelter materials tomorrow and extending over the next few months that will further tax the road…

Manila (dpa) - Philippine Defence Secretary Orlando Mercado said Monday the government's disaster preparedness programme helped minimize casualties in a powerful earthquake that rocked northern provinces over the weekend and left five people dead. Mercado said the government's call for regular…

Location: East Timor Incident Date: 6 September 1999 Hazard Type: Civil Unrest Summary: The result of the United Nations sponsored popular consultation on a special autonomy for East Timor within the Republic of Indonesia, held on 30 August, was…

Islamabad (Office of the United Nations Co-ordinator for Afghanistan), 13 December 1999-- At the press briefing today at the Office of the UN Co-ordinator for Afghanistan, spokesperson Stephanie Bunker announced that the first phase of crosslines humanitarian operation from Kabul…

There is an urgent need to return East Timorese displaced from West Timor and elsewhere in Indonesia to their communities of origin in order for rehabilitation, reconstruction and development to begin as quickly as possible. The safe and orderly…

Ref. OCHA/GVA - 99/0253 Date: 13 December 1999 Philippines - Earthquake OCHA Situation Report No. 2 13 December 1999 Situation 1. A strong earthquake hit Luzon, the largest island of the Philippines, on Sunday, 12 December 1999, at 02:03 hrs local time (Saturday,…