Seeking to prevent a dangerous and destabilizing security vacuum in a post-Taliban Afghanistan, a United Nations human rights expert has outlined a series of measures geared towards protecting the country's people.
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today began an airlift of more than 2,000 metric tonnes of food from south-western Pakistan for delivery to remote areas of northern Afghanistan.
Continuing his intensive diplomatic activity in Iran, Secretary-General Kofi Annan's Special Representative for Afghanistan, Lakhdar Brahimi, today indicated his intention to meet with former Afghan King Zahir Shah before returning to New York.
Gravely concerned about the deteriorating humanitarian situation in Afghanistan, members of the Security Council today said that the Taliban's misrule is the underlying cause of the country's dire circumstances.
The United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator today told the Security Council that obstacles hampering food delivery to Afghanistan could leave the country unable to meet its needs as winter sets in.
United Nations organizations and their partners have launched a three-day campaign to immunize Afghan children against the crippling polio virus, the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) announced today.
Underscoring that political action was essential in establishing a system that would be appropriate for Afghanistan and its neighbours, President Jacques Chirac of France today stressed the importance of the United Nations in helping to bring about a political solution in the country.
Holding three days of intensive consultations in Tehran, Secretary-General Kofi Annan's Special Representative for Afghanistan, Lakhdar Brahimi, has emphasized that the Afghan people themselves must determine their future.
With a 14 per cent jump in asylum applications in Europe this year compared to the same period in 2000, most asylum-seekers come from Afghanistan and Iraq, a spokesman for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said today in Geneva.
The international community is now committed to supporting the reconstruction and development of Afghanistan, Lakhdar Brahimi, the senior United Nations envoy for the country, told reporters in Islamabad today.
