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Ambassador Zahir Tanin

UN General Assembly on verge of negotiating Security Council reform

13 February 2009
UN Affairs

On-going work on reshaping the size and membership of the Security Council and making the vital organ of the world body more democratic is finally heading for serious negotiations, the Ambassador to the United Nations for Afghanistan, Zahir Tanin, told the press today.

Ban declares recruitment, use of child soldiers as ‘unacceptable’

12 February 2009
Peace and Security

On the occasion of Red Hand Day which seeks to mobilize people worldwide to bring an end to the forced recruitment and use of children as soldiers, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today stated that the practice violates human decency and must be eradicated.