The Christian Science Monitor - As the United Nations Security Council took up Russia's invasion of Georgia last month, a heated repartee ensued between the Russian and American representatives that had longtime UN hands wondering if the bad old days of the cold war had returned. -- read full article
Reuters - The United Nations has again ruled out a
U.N. role for Taiwan, a Taipei official said on Thursday,
despite a recent thaw in relations with China which considers
the island a breakaway province.
Reuters - Rising food prices are partly to blame for
adding 75 million more people to the ranks of the world's
hungry in 2007 and lifting the global figure to roughly 925
million, the U.N.'s food agency said on Wednesday.
AFP - Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic appeared defiantly before a UN war crimes judge Wednesday, claiming a top US envoy had promised him immunity on behalf of the UN Security Council.
U.S. News & World Report - This
week's United Nations report on Iran's ongoing resistance to explaining
its nuclear activities and on its accelerating enrichment of uranium
is--for all its downbeat news--not likely to trigger new U.N. sanctions
against the Islamic republic. -- read full article
AP - The United Nations said Tuesday that 1,445 Afghan civilians have been killed so far this year in attacks by insurgents or U.S.- and NATO-led forces — a 40 percent increase over 2007.
OneWorld.net - UNITED NATIONS, Sep 16 (OneWorld) - Driven by concerns over the continued loss of civilian lives in armed conflicts, a coalition of rights groups and aid organizations is calling for a worldwide crackdown on the illegal trade in guns. -- read full article
AP - The new president of the U.N. General Assembly opened its 63rd annual session Tuesday by accusing some of the world body's most powerful members for relying on warfare. -- read full article
Reuters - U.S. presidential candidate Sen.
John McCain may take his running mate Sarah Palin to the United
Nations next week, U.N. officials said on Tuesday, to give her
the chance to meet a few world leaders,
Reuters - A former Nicaraguan leftist
official became president of the U.N. General Assembly on
Tuesday, urging that power be given to its broad membership and
taken away from the big-power-dominated Security Council.
Reuters - A group of U.N. humanitarian
agency officials will visit a Georgian separatist enclave to
assess the situation after the country's brief war with Russia
last month, the United Nations said on Tuesday.
AP - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed deep concern Tuesday that the U.S. financial crisis will have a serious global impact, especially on rich donor nations that play key roles in fighting poverty. -- read full article
AFP - The United Nations has pulled its staff out of rebel-held areas in Sri Lanka's north after the government refused to guarantee the safety of aid workers.
AFP - China said Tuesday that UN-imposed sanctions would not resolve the stalemate over Iran's nuclear programme, after the United States raised the prospect of new tough action.
AP - The Security Council should impose more sanctions on Iran over its stonewalling of a U.N. investigation into allegations that Tehran tried to make nuclear weapons, France said Tuesday.
