Following a preliminary visit to two suspected mass graves in Afghanistan, a United Nations team, supported by the Interim Administration, has recommended further investigation using forensic experts, a UN spokesman reported today.
The United Nations refugee agency today began repatriating Afghans from Iran – an effort which is expected to return 400,000 people to Afghanistan this year alone.
Aiming to ensure that all Afghans receive basic medical services, United Nations agencies and their partners are calling on donors to invest $200 million in Afghanistan’s health sector over the next two and a half years, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) reported today.
Noting advances in efforts to promote stability in the Afghan capital, members of the Security Council today called for increased attention to the matter in the period ahead.
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today warned that it might have to stop or slow down several projects in Afghanistan if donors did not provide more support for a new $285 million operation to assist millions of Afghans until the end of the year.
The chief United Nations envoy for Afghanistan, Lakhdar Brahimi, today hailed the success of a donors meeting in Geneva on the reform of Afghanistan’s security forces, which are widely considered a key element for the country’s future stability.
With most emergency goods already distributed in earthquake-ravaged parts of Afghanistan, the United Nations is turning its attention to longer-term needs there, a UN spokesman told the press in Kabul today.
United Nations refugee officials today hailed the extraordinarily high number of Afghans pouring back into their home country from Pakistan through a UN-assisted effort which, since the beginning of March, has repatriated nearly 150,000 people.
The United Nations top envoy for Afghanistan, Lakhdar Brahimi, was in Geneva today to attend a meeting of donors to discuss rebuilding the country's army and police force, which he said could cost "hundreds of millions of dollars."
As new procedures were announced in Kabul for convening Afghanistan's Emergency Loya Jirga, or tribal council, a senior United Nations official in the country has called the process key to the country's future peace.
