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Security Council condemns assassination attempt against Afghan President

6 September 2002
Members of the Security Council today condemned in the strongest possible terms yesterday’s assassination attempt against Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Governor Gul Agha Sherzai in Kandahar.
Kofi Annan with Hamid Karzai during visit to Kabul in January

Condemning terrorist attacks in Afghanistan, Annan urges full investigation

5 September 2002
The United Nations Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, today condemned two separate acts of violence in Afghanistan – an assassination attempt against top-level officials and a terrorist explosion in the capital which left more than 15 civilians dead.

Refugee returns to Afghanistan largest in 30 years, UN agency says

3 September 2002
The more than 1.6 million Afghans who have returned home since March constitute the largest single refugee repatriation in 30 years, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said today.

UN Population Fund helping Afghanistan design first-ever national census

29 August 2002
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) is helping the Government of Afghanistan to organize the country's first-ever national census, a UN spokesman announced today in Kabul.
Lakhdar Brahimi

Eventual probe of Afghanistan's reported mass graves must protect witnesses - UN envoy

27 August 2002
Any probe of alleged mass grave sites in northern Afghanistan must protect potential witnesses, the senior United Nations envoy to the country said today, pledging that the world body would follow-up on the issue.
Ruud Lubbers and Hamid Karzai

UN's top refugee official meets Afghan President, tours camps for displaced persons

26 August 2002
One day after meeting with the President of Afghanistan, the senior United Nations refugee official today travelled to Kandahar to assess the situation of displaced people in the southern part of the country.
Ruud Lubbers

Head of UN refugee agency to examine plight of displaced Afghans in south

23 August 2002
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Ruud Lubbers, left today for Afghanistan, where he is scheduled to look at the situation facing displaced people in the southern part of the country and the different solutions required to help the government resolve that problem.

Afghan governor agrees to place armed security outside UN offices in Ghazni

19 August 2002
The regional government in Ghazni, southwest of the Afghan capital of Kabul, has agreed to place armed security outside United Nations premises following an armed robbery last week of the UN refugee agency's office there.

Despite improved crop production, 6 million Afghans still need food aid, UN warns

16 August 2002
Despite an overall improvement in Afghanistan's crop production, some 6 million people will continue to need food assistance over the next year, United Nations relief agencies warned in a report released today.

Afghanistan: UN mission helps broker agreement between warring factions

15 August 2002
Two warring commanders in the northern part of Afghanistan, where fighting last week killed eight soldiers, have agreed to lay down their weapons under an accord brokered with the help of the United Nations Assistance Mission in the country (UNAMA).