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/ 28 October 2006
The United Nations is considering a monitoring mission or peacekeeping force in Chad where the spillover from violence in Sudan’s Darfur region has resulted in more than 200 000 refugees. Jean-Marie Guehenno, the head of UN peacekeeping, told the UN Security Council on Friday he was sending a mission to Chad and the Central African Republic.
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/ 24 October 2006
A United Nations draft resolution, circulated on Monday, would give the prime minister of the Côte d’Ivoire full military and civilian authority to run the country for another year pending new elections. The UN Security Council document, drawn up by France, says that Prime Minister Charles Konan Banny would be empowered to ”take all necessary decisions”.
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/ 15 October 2006
The United Nations Security Council voted unanimously on Saturday to impose financial and weapons sanctions on North Korea for its claimed nuclear test in a resolution that Pyongyang immediately rejected. The US-drafted resolution said the reclusive communist state’s action was a ”clear threat to international peace and security”.
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/ 14 October 2006
The United Nations Security Council expects to impose arms and financial sanctions on North Korea on Saturday for its reported nuclear weapons test, with United States intelligence pointing to confirmation that it took place. In Washington, a preliminary US intelligence analysis has shown radioactivity in air samples collected near a suspected North Korean nuclear test site.
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/ 14 October 2006
The next secretary general of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon of South Korea, pledged on Friday to be a decisive leader and cautioned those who call him low-key not to mistake him for a pushover. ”I may look low-key or [be] soft-spoken but that does not mean that I lack leadership or commitment,” Ban told Reuters.
The United States on Thursday called emergency UN Security Council consultations after Sudan warned nations considering troops for Darfur that their action was a ”prelude to an invasion”. The letter from Sudan’s mission to the UN was sent to dozens of states who attended a meeting on September 25 on potential troop contributions to a future UN force in Darfur.
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/ 28 September 2006
About 2,6-billion people in the world, mainly in Africa and Asia, lack access to basic sanitation, increasing the risk of diarrhoea and other diseases fatal to children, said a United Nations report released on Thursday. Unicef, the UN children’s fund, concluded that UN goals could be met on clean water, especially in urban areas.
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/ 1 September 2006
The United Nations Security Council on Thursday voted to create a United Nations peacekeeping force in Sudan’s Darfur region to avert a new humanitarian disaster, but the Khartoum government rejected the resolution as ”illegal.” The vote to send the force to Darfur once Sudan has agreed to its deployment passed with 12 votes in favour.
The United Nations Security Council on Thursday voted to create a UN peacekeeping force in Sudan’s Darfur region, despite the Khartoum government’s strong opposition. The vote was 12 in favour, with abstentions from Russia, China and Qatar, the only Arab council member.
A resolution drafted by the United States and Britain to create a United Nations peacekeeping force in Sudan’s Darfur region faces a vote on Thursday, but troops will not be deployed without consent from the Khartoum government. So far Sudan has refused to allow the UN to replace or absorb an African Union force in Darfur.