The desire for peace and security and the need for disarmament of local military forces are among key concerns of the Afghan population, according to a new United Nations-sponsored survey.
The United Nations will present a framework of funding priorities for war-ravaged and drought-stricken Afghanistan to donors who will meet in Tokyo next week to discuss plans for the country's recovery.
Gunmen have attacked a United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) convoy in northern Afghanistan, taking the relief aid and beating the drivers, a spokesman for the agency said today.
Attending a meeting in Kabul today between the Chairman of the Afghan Interim Administration and the United States Secretary of State, a senior United Nations official welcomed Washington’s long-term commitment to Afghanistan.
Welcoming Afghanistan’s new ban on all opium poppy cultivation, the United Nations Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention (ODCCP) today said the prohibition represented a “very important step” in international efforts to control the illicit narcotics trade.
The top United Nations human rights official today underscored that international legal protections apply to suspected terrorists being held by the United States.
As the Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Afghanistan continued high-level talks in Kabul today, Ericsson and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) worked to set up a complete mobile telecommunications network dedicated to supporting UN humanitarian operations in the war-ravaged country, UN officials said.
A senior United Nations drug control official today reported new progress in the war against drugs flowing out of Afghanistan, as the country's interim leader issued a decree banning the production of poppy.
