Reuters - U.N. Secretary-General Ban
Ki-moon denied on Thursday that his first year in office had
been a failure and said recent criticisms he made of the U.N.
bureaucracy's resistance to change had been misconstrued.
AP - Israel responded to an Iranian protest over "dangerous" comments by Israeli officials, saying Wednesday it is "absurd" for a country whose president has repeatedly called for the Jewish state's destruction to preach morality in international affairs.
AP - The city and the United Nations, which have tussled for years over parking tickets and property taxes, are now squabbling over schoolchildren — specifically, whether it's safe for them to visit U.N. headquarters. -- read full article
The Christian Science Monitor - The United Nations secretary-general, Ban Ki Moon, sits at the podium flanked by victims of terrorist acts committed around the world, a look of Cheshire-cat satisfaction on his face. -- read full article
AFP - Iran has protested to the United Nations over an Israeli minister's suggestion that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad be abducted and dragged before international justice, the official IRNA news agency reported Wednesday.
AFP - The United Nations will soon appoint American diplomat Christopher Ross as a special envoy to the Western Sahara, the Spanish daily El Pais reported Wednesday.
Reuters - The United Nations chief war crimes
prosecutor said on Wednesday he was optimistic that Serbia
would succeed in its efforts to arrest remaining war crimes
fugitives.
AFP - The Afghan government and its international partners agreed Wednesday to expand the national army to 134,000 soldiers, almost double its current strength, the United Nations said.
Reuters - Russia's U.N. envoy asked the
Security Council on Tuesday to impose an arms embargo on
Georgia, which Russia invaded last month to stop Tbilisi from
retaking a Kremlin-backed separatist enclave.
AP - At the U.N.'s first symposium for terror victims Tuesday, Naomi Monchari Kerongo's tears didn't stop her trancelike recitation of the awful things she saw that day in Kenya, 10 years ago.
Reuters - Freed French-Colombian hostage
Ingrid Betancourt called at a U.N. conference on Tuesday for
U.N.-backed international status for victims of terrorism with
centralized data to publicize their plight.
Reuters - Iran demanded on Tuesday a
"resolute and clear response" from the United Nations to what
it called dangerous threats against it by Israel, and said
Tehran would not hesitate to respond to any attack.
OneWorld.net - UNITED NATIONS, Sep 9 (OneWorld) - Disarmament groups and peace activists are urging Congress to reject the Bush administration's plan to send U.S. nuclear technology to India after the proposal gained the assent of an international monitoring body late last week. -- read full article
AP - The pro-democracy winners of Myanmar's 1990 elections asked the U.N. secretary-general Tuesday to recognize their own representatives in place of those of the current military rulers at the United Nations.
AFP - The United Nations said Tuesday it was withdrawing all its aid agency personnel from Sri Lanka's embattled north, following a government order to quit ahead of a major military offensive.
