Europe

UN agency teams with European police to boost crime-fighting abilities

16 March 2004
The United Nations crime-fighting agency and its European counterpart signed an agreement today calling for more information sharing and better data collection in a bid to improve their abilities to counter illegal activities.

Memory of Vieira de Mello pervades start of UN Commission on Human Rights

15 March 2004
Seven months after he was killed by a terrorist bomb in Baghdad, the memory of the late United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Sergio Vieira de Mello, hovered over today's opening of the 60th annual session of the UN's top human rights body in Geneva.

Kosovo elections set for 23 October, UN envoy announces

14 March 2004
Kosovo's next elections will be held on 23 October, the United Nations envoy to the province announced today.
USG Jean-Marie Guéhenno (L) & SRSG Harri Holkeri

In Kosovo, senior UN peacekeeping official urges reconciliation

13 March 2004
Visiting Kosovo today, the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping urged all concerned to promote reconciliation in the province.

UN-OSCE meeting outlines steps to boost global fight against terrorism

12 March 2004
In the aftermath of yesterday's brutal terrorist attacks in Spain, delegates to an international conference on terrorism in Vienna today reaffirmed the central role of the United Nations Security Council Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC) in the global effort to fight the scourge.
Alvaro de Soto

UN envoy to begin separate meetings with parties to Cyprus talks

12 March 2004
The United Nations envoy for Cyprus indicated to the Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders at their meeting today that he intended to begin a series of intensive consultations with each side separately, according to a UN spokesman.

UN human rights chief appeals for release of kidnapped aid worker in Russia

12 March 2004
Acting United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Bertrand Ramcharan issued a blanket appeal today for help in securing the release of a Doctors without Borders worker who was kidnapped more than a year and a half ago in southern Russia and is believed to be in ill health.

UN envoy to Kosovo condemns grenade attack on president's home

12 March 2004
The senior United Nations envoy to Kosovo has condemned the hand grenade attack early today on the Pristina home of Kosovo's President Ibrahim Rugova.
Annan speaking to the press

Annan deplores ‘senseless’ bomb blasts in Spain

11 March 2004
Reacting to news of several bomb blasts in Spain this morning, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today reiterated his stance that there is no justification for targeting civilians, and said the perpetrators must to be held to account for their crimes.

UN war crimes tribunal removes restrictions on Miloševic's contacts

11 March 2004
The United Nations war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia announced today that it has eased the communications limitations imposed on former Yugoslav President Slobodan Miloševic.