Asia Pacific

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon

Secretary-General welcomes deal on non-nuclear Korean peninsula

13 February 2007
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today strongly welcomed the nuclear agreement reached at six-party talks in Beijing, describing it as the first step towards a non-nuclear Korean Peninsula and urging all sides to “sustain the current positive momentum” and ensure the accord is implemented.

UN expert on of extrajudicial executions visits Philippines

12 February 2007
An independent United Nations human rights expert is on a 10-day visit to the Philippines to investigate the issue of extrajudicial executions.

Nepal: UN envoy hails planned political talks, voices concern at reported attacks

12 February 2007
The United Nations envoy in Nepal today warmly welcomed planned talks between the Government, the country’s indigenous peoples and the southern Nepalese who live in the dispute-wracked Terai region, but he also expressed deep concern at reports of recent attacks against political parties in the west of the country.
Special Representative Atul Khare briefs Council

Security critical for this year’s Timor-Leste polls, more police needed: UN envoy

12 February 2007
Highlighting the “fragile” security situation in Timor-Leste, the top United Nations envoy to the impoverished nation today reiterated Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s call for more international police during this year’s elections, the first to be held there since it gained independence from Indonesia in 2002.
Martin at Maoist army 7th cantonment site in Kailali

Arms registration and storage concluded in western Nepal – UN envoy

10 February 2007
Arms registration and storage by United Nations monitors in the western part of Nepal has now been concluded, the world body's senior envoy to the Himalayan country confirmed today.
Food aid in Nepal

UN food agency to extend operations in Nepal in response to ongoing drought

9 February 2007
The United Nations food agency in Nepal will extend its aid operations to three drought-affected districts of the eastern Terai – an area seized with political violence over the last month – while continuing assistance until the end of June to drought victims in the mid- and far-western regions, efforts that will directly benefit around 400,000 people.
Families seek refuge in one of many crowded relief camps

UN offers up to $2 million from emergency fund for Indonesia flood relief

9 February 2007
The top United Nations humanitarian official today released up to $2 million from the world body’s emergency fund to help Indonesia’s Government deal with the deadly floods that have already killed at least 50 people and displaced half a million others in the capital Jakarta and surrounding areas.

Indonesian flood waters recede but fears of water-borne diseases persist – UN

8 February 2007
Although the floodwaters have begun to recede in the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, where 25 people are confirmed dead and nearly 300,000 others were driven from their homes, according to latest Government figures, clean water remains cut off in many areas and the fear of water-borne diseases persists, the United Nations reported today.

Camps in Pakistan housing more than 230,000 Afghan refugees to be closed – UN

8 February 2007
Citing security and development concerns, the United Nations refugee agency, Pakistan and Afghanistan have made plans to close four camps, accommodating more than 230,000 Afghan refugees, by the end of this summer, while providing residents with repatriation and relocation options.
Flood victim receives food aid from WFP

Indonesia: UN agencies step up food, health aid to flood victims

7 February 2007
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today started providing immediate food aid to some of the worst-affected flood victims in the Indonesia capital, Jakarta, where at least 40 people have been killed and 340,000 others driven from their homes by rains which inundated thousands of houses and other buildings, including 1,500 schools.